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UK Steam users must now verify age to access store pages for mature games thanks to Online Safety Act
Steam users in the UK must now verify their age in order to access store pages for games with mature content, as required by the Online Safety Act.
Steam users in the UK must now verify their age in order to access store pages for games with mature content, as required by the Online Safety Act. "Having the credit card stored as a payment method acts as an additional deterrent against circumventing age verification by sharing a single Steam user account among multiple persons," the instructions read. Valve stated this process "preserves the maximum degree of user privacy" in comparison to other age assurance mechanisms.
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