They would lose likely 98% of their player base.
$omething tells me that won’t happen
With the reputation most companies have with leaking and breached data, who wouldn’t want to have their ssn and license on file with rock star games?!
Is it even hard ro find someone’s SSN anymore?
Not really, the assholes used the last four of it for college emails in the 2000s FFS.
I’m already boycotting rockstar, just make offline games and stop with the invasive bs
Now my money is going to indie developers
(almost) every game is an offline game if you pirate it ;)
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Isn’t GTAV an 18 rated game? So children shouldn’t be able to buy it in the first place.
This falls on the parents instead because of dumb laws every one has to deal with this, I just hope that not all countries are this insane:
users in the UK have had to take photos of themselves and upload it to a service that uses AI to guess their age. Or, send in photos of ID such as passports or driving licenses.
The problem needs to be addressed at the root, make making children illegal !
It’s M rated. M ratings are 17+ the ESRB rating for 18+ is AO.
M ratings are for minors, AO is for adults.
You need to ID to buy an AO game, you do not for M unless it’s a individual store policy.
Due to anti porn sentiment and stores refusing to carry porn. Only 24 games have ever gotten the AO rating
It’s considered a death flag.
It’s much like how the Deadpool movie was R rated instead of pg13. This was considered a huge risk cause R rates movies don’t make money was the common theory.
But even then R rating is also for minors. Movies have the NC-17 rating which is for 18+ and thus only adults. This would be the AO rating in games.
Stores and public facing businesses are so piss scared of having adult rated content even if it’s not porn, just because of the vague idea that adult only content HAS to be porn cause “what else would it be”
That rating systems have undermined their very purpose and become fucking useless. It’s why everything is only M rated instead of being AO when it really should be.
It’s not really relevant as the UK rating system doesn’t have M or AO clarifications. The game is rated 18 so it’s for adults only.
If they roll this out to my country, I’m just not buying any of their games. My privacy is worth a lot more than that.
I might still play them, I just won’t buy them, because I’m not doing age verification.
guess ill be pirating the next one, since there will be no online mode.
Same exact thought.
Can you even call it GTA online if there aren’t a dozen 12 year olds running around screaming, “N***** and F*****”.
Moms are still getting plenty of action though, right? Wont someone think of the moms!!!
I’m thinking of your mom right now don’t worry maboy.
Phew. I dont know what she’d do, with out all the xbox bros fucking her 12 times a night…
Np bro that’s what I’m here for.
Good stuff. Cos lets be honest, those 80 year old hip bones aint gonna pop themselves in and out of place…
You’re damn right they’re not.
Can you call it that when chat is disabled anyway ; D
The thing with age verification is that I don’t think it’s a bad thing if done securely, but still it still makes me sad, because Internet will never be the same with it. In the end it will be only few big websites who can afford to care about Internet regulation.
Well, after all maybe it’s time to switch to Gemini protocol, they are not going to regulate that!
Parents will just have their kids play on their accounts. This only hurts the average person who now needs to worry about who has that information and how it’s secured.
If that’s true its going to be funny when the account gets banned because of something kiddo did
Maybe I’m dating myself but this is the same company that released state of emergency for the PS2? That game you could literally mow down people in a mall with a mini gun?
They were worried about “the children?” News to me.
They have way more investors to jerk off and please now
My mum enjoyed the bonus level in the mall where you could just kill like 100 people as fast as you could.
Her favourite weapon is the flamethrower.
Her first reaction to the game was “that’s disgusting”, but I let her have a go and suddenly she was toasting a whole crowd and loving every minute of it.
That’s disgusting!
Where can I find more!
I mean the whole “ban gta” movement was started by rockstar themselves. They riled up the masses about how dangerous gta is, and it worked. The moms hopped onto the train and the whole movement gained momentum and the made billions.
If we’re going to government age verification everywhere just get rid of fucking ESRB and content ratings
Or just start fucking using the AO rating.
GTA should have a fucking AO rating but because of money no game gets more then an M rating making the entire system pointless.
Exactly. What’s the point of AO is all major retailers pledged 20 years ago that they won’t sell it? AO is basically a sales ban
If we’re going to government age verification everywhere just get rid of fucking ESRB and content ratings
This is a game made in Scotland, ESRB is a voluntary US based system.
Made even sillier because Rockstar isn’t a government.
Yes, it’s voluntary and self-imposed by the game industry to avoid exactly this kind of nanny-state bullshit. Ergo, if governments proceed with the bullshit anyway, then there’s no longer a need for the ESRB or PEGI.
The same parents that allow their children to play these games now will allow them to play then.
This will just make me not want to play these games.
What about disabling the shitty anti-cheat or even just enabling it on Linux so I, as a 27yo, can play the damn game?
And nothing of worth was lost
Phew, ok good. A few months ago, when this first leaked, it made it seem like this was going to be used for every country and for the entire game. I have never played GTA online and never will.
The internet is continuing to get worse and worse… also, those comments on the actual article were strangely to pro.
I hope they don’t block VPN access.
They absolutely will
