>Based on recent leaks from credible dataminer Tez2, Rockstar is preparing age verification for GTA Online, likely requiring ID or photo uploads, starting with UK players. It's unconfirmed officially, but tied to GTA VI preparations. Privacy concerns are valid

This isn't a bad thing, actually.

zoomers BTFO

Welp, hope Rockstar is ready to say goodbye to millions of dollars

Rockstar has made billions from kids using their parents money to buy shark cards, They are NOT locking kids out of GTA Online.

>>717309119 (OP)
If the game is rated M/18+ then that means no minors should be able to buy it so why would they need to be adding age verification to it

>starting with UK players
Deserved

>UK votes for the "we will ban shit you like and import more migrants" party
>They ban shit that they like and import more migrants
Wooooow

>>717309119 (OP)
>All those photos of disgusting fat meat puppet nerds filling some rockstar server

>>717309685
There are no good parties to vote for in the UK.

>>717309494
Kek, true. The UK always gets the beta test of dystopia. First TV licenses, then knife bans, now facial scans to grind Cayo Perico. Next they'll make you scan your NHS card to log into a deathmatch server.

>>717309119 (OP)
Look I hate this age verification shit as much as the next guy but this might just be one of the very few cases where it's good for something considering the overwhelming majority of toxic faggots and griefers flying around on Mk2s are kids who bought them with their parent's credit cards. It might actually become possible to have car shows, deliver cargo, do freemode challenges, etc. in public lobbies without being instantly killed for no reason now.
Again, not defending this age verification bullshit, I'm just looking at the potential positives it may have going forward for the health of the game.

>>717309119 (OP)
Blackrock funded UKOSA btw. Specifically a group called Carnegie funding their own research and writing their own legislation which Government blindly outsourced and co-signed.
Looks similar in vibe to SweetBaby when I think about it.

>>717311413
It's easy to understand why. They have the least financial safety of the whole western world right now since they're not part of the EU, so they're the most liable country and the weakest against lobby organizations. Explains why Denmark is the second-weakest link as we're now apparently in charge of the EU Online Safety Act with an app prototype that hits Summer 2026, a "EU Digital ID".

And finally there's Kid's Online Safety Act of the US, which hasn't included the ID Verification part yet, but it just has yet to be included.

All of this is orchestrated by Blackrock btw.

>>717309119 (OP)
Source?

This will be bad for the long run, but it feels pretty good that kids get btfo'd.

I will be sending dick pics to anything that requires me to send an ID

>>717312173
It's not the kids who get targeted though. Sure they can't play, but it's the adults who get monitored. You're uploading your IDs every time you want to play a game.
In Denmark we've had this otehr system for years called "MyID". I have to swipe shit on my phon eevery time I have to do anything related to bank accounts, posts from the public sector, and pay for games on consoles. I have to type my User ID, Scan my thumb and swipe.

And it's every time. It's not remembered. It's just like those popup boxes you see on some sites about data collection. It's going to be like walking into rakes every time you wanna do anything.

>>717309261
The oldest zoomer is 25yo

>>717309119 (OP)
can't you just ai gen some random face and slap it on your id?
furthermore, can't you just canva the whole id altogether?

>>717311970
that's how banksters operate yes
ditto for that aussie visa shit

>>717309685
it was either the "we will ban shit you like and import more migrants" party, or the "we will ban shit you like and import more migrants" party.

>>717312725
what will it take for someone to make a youtube competitor that's not shit?
I don't mean shit like bitchute where only the most autistic and edgy retards gather, I mean a site where relatively normal people post relatively normal content

>>717309402
>>717309261
This is gonna go one of two ways:

>1. The verification is so shoddily done that kids easily defeat it by just uploading their parents ids, or using pictures of people they googled for the face scan. It ends up doing nothing.

>2. The verification leads to over half the playerbase disappearing because they're can't circumvent the blocks. Rockstar loses tons of money.

Both are acceptable outcomes

>>717313401
It has to be profitable for creators and given YouTube is backed by fucking Google, that ain't gonna happen.

>>717313510
>It has to be profitable for creators
Not necessarily. Some creators would jump at the chance at being able to make whatever the hell they want with nobody breathing down their necks, even if they don't get ad revenue. They could always sell merch on the side, like they used to before you could make a living from youtube videos alone, which I'm still not convinced you actually can do in 2025.

>>717313897
I suppose that's true but bigger creators aren't going to make the switch until there's proof that a competitor can truly outshine YouTube, and smaller creators might not want to abandon what they've already made for themselves.