Anonymous
8/8/2025, 1:20:50 PM No.717580505
We should petition by talking about it and signal boosting this problem, and make it known so that they properly earmark games that do this for unknowing consumers before they buy.
Seems like a very fair thing to ask for, given you might not want to play or purchase a product if it requires you forfeit a Photo ID to the developer/publisher, like you're being carded for alcohol, to just play a videogame.
I mean, imagine the scenario: A person buys a game with a singleplayer campaign you can play for hours, but the online is blocked by ID verification, and they didn't know prior. This person doesn't want to verify their ID, so if they knew that the game would ask this beforehand, they wouldn't have bought it, but now it's too late because they played more than 2 hours and/or it's been over 14 days.
The better answer is for the store page to inform consumers so that they can make a properly informed purchasing decision. Having anything less means starving consumers of information they should know before buying, and as a storefront, it's your obligation to list the requirements for the product you're selling. Just like Minimum Specs and EULAs.
It's unfair that Steam not disclose this to consumers, so we should make it known, both in protest of the forced ID verification itself, but also for basic consumer protections.
Also for those of you who thought this was a meme image or something, no, GTAV is actually doing this, the code is in the game and ready to go live. People have posted screenshots of the redirect page for the QR code too.
Seems like a very fair thing to ask for, given you might not want to play or purchase a product if it requires you forfeit a Photo ID to the developer/publisher, like you're being carded for alcohol, to just play a videogame.
I mean, imagine the scenario: A person buys a game with a singleplayer campaign you can play for hours, but the online is blocked by ID verification, and they didn't know prior. This person doesn't want to verify their ID, so if they knew that the game would ask this beforehand, they wouldn't have bought it, but now it's too late because they played more than 2 hours and/or it's been over 14 days.
The better answer is for the store page to inform consumers so that they can make a properly informed purchasing decision. Having anything less means starving consumers of information they should know before buying, and as a storefront, it's your obligation to list the requirements for the product you're selling. Just like Minimum Specs and EULAs.
It's unfair that Steam not disclose this to consumers, so we should make it known, both in protest of the forced ID verification itself, but also for basic consumer protections.
Also for those of you who thought this was a meme image or something, no, GTAV is actually doing this, the code is in the game and ready to go live. People have posted screenshots of the redirect page for the QR code too.