Steam Support :: Age Assurance in Australia
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If your Steam account is nine years old, it now [edit to add: should] auto verify.

Doesn’t do me any good, my account is just shy of six years old, and my MC debit card still doesn’t work. I’ll be 60 before it auto verifies unless my debit card magically starts working.

There must be some under 18s whose parents got them a steam account nine years ago who are now verified.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I bitched at support about this very thing couple of weeks ago. I guess I wasn’t the only one and they listened.

    • Dvixen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Pretty much everyone I know had a rant at steam for the age gate. Felt bad for the support people, but felt toasty for the heat steam was getting.

      • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        It was a stupid policy from the start. I don’t feel sorry for them. I wasn’t rude, but I was pretty blunt.

        My message:

        Stop asking for credit card details just to look at ‘mature content’ that I may or may not even buy. The age of my account alone should tell you that I’m over 18.

        And this was for a game that would let me look at the main game, but not the bundle with all the DLC for the same game.