It’s not Australia saying it, it’s a specific person, though.
For anyone that doesn’t know, currently because of stuff like this, people in Australia can’t even access their Steam games that they’ve already bought unless they have a credit card, which I’ve learned most people over there don’t. Valve isn’t allowing the third-party ‘steal your data’ options like face scan and government ID, so Australian folk without a CC are out of luck.
Australians, please fight back against these anti-privacy laws. If these are successful, they’ll come to other countries.
You are completely wrong.
Credit cards are very common here. Also, I don’t have a credit card and I haven’t lost access to any of my steam games.
I’ve played games like Wuthering Waves and VPN’d to America and the game has asked me to verify my age then I’ve disabled the VPN and started the game again and magically it’s not now.
I don’t know what to tell you, I got my information from an Australian, and everything I’ve seen online confirms this.
I’m an Australian
I don’t know an adult Australian who doesn’t at least have a Visa debit card, which more or less functions as the same.
Many use EFTPOS (and quite frankly our government should move that to a credit payment facility so we can ditch the American ones) but what that Aussie told you is not correct; in fact most of the larger retailers are pushing for cashless transactions.
But a debit card explicitly isn’t a credit card, which is what’s being talked about here
It uses the same function and the point stands…most Australians use a credit card or BNPL which is essentially the same.
Not when it’s being used for age verification…
Who uses these for age verification?
Bet these are the same people that put the pressure on the porn games a bit ago
From what I remember, I believe it was an Australian “moms group” that pulled that stunt.
Collective Shout.
Fucking cunts and the payment processors that went along with their bullshit.
Maybe you should try parenting???
Also: Little kids aren’t even allowed to use Steam, check the TOS. If parents abandon their responsibilities to their own children, that’s hardly Steam’s fault.
Steam has good parental controls and if you actually parent your children you can notice if it isn’t quite set up correctly.
