Sharken wrote on Jun 29, 2021, 17:35:
I wonder if the Steam age check would not be sufficient for the EU. If not then something is seriously wrong in Europe

Nope. Steam's AVS (simple birth date check that can be easily manipulated) is not strong enough.

It is pretty lame that Valve still has not managed to implement proper AVS in Steam after all these years (no matter for which country). The original Half-Life used to be soft-banned in Germany. Soft-ban = No advertising for the game was allowed, no sales to persons under the age of 18. A lack of a proper AVS is basically a day 1 Valve/Steam issue. It is inexplicable that Valve has not made any progress in that regard. We've had digital feature IDs in the EU for a long time now and there is a whole new European eID since 01/01/2021. Valve would only have to implement the proper interface. Porn sites have been able to pull off proper AVS since the 1990s.

Or use the same AVS as YouTube? If a Steam customer has a credit card tied to their account treat them like an adult. How about that? Or maybe we could even just use simple logic. I own a day 1 Steam account so my Steam account is 17 years old now. I doubt I would have been able to create a Steam account if I would have been under the age of 1 back in 2003 .