Moms are still getting plenty of action though, right? Wont someone think of the moms!!!!

Maybe I'm dating myself but this is the same company that released state of emergency for the PS2? That game you could literally mow down people in a mall with a mini gun?

They were worried about "the children?" News to me.

To be honest I regret spending so much time earning money and buying so many cars. It would have been more fun riding around in a stolen piece of trash robbing liquor stores with a friend than grinding the bank heist over and over.

Wrong. You "lose" the age verification feature.

Made even sillier because Rockstar isn't a government.

Unfortunately, the online component easily becomes a profitable sideline. Sarcastically, it's what keeps some game corporation CEOs afford their lifestyles.

If they roll this out to my country, I'm just not buying any of their games. My privacy is worth a lot more than that.

I might still play them, I just won't buy them, because I'm not doing age verification.

You might not be able to connect to FiveM servers, which IMO is a major loss. FiveM is the real GTA V.

They have way more investors to jerk off and please now

I'm thinking of your mom right now don't worry maboy.

The point is to make children used to checks.

It's a didactic law.

IRL usually children grow up feeling they are free (except for their parents) to an extent.

This is intended so that identifying yourself in the Internet were normal by the time you grow up for it to matter.

But, of course, there might be some good considerations, if you're into playing devil's advocate. People might remember which stupid shit they were posting when they were younger, and want for future generations to be always conscious of the difference between pseudonymity and anonymity, and superficial anonymity vs real. People might want to make it so that nobody had a false sense of security, leading to really bad mistakes. People might want this to be the step preceding some way to fight bots.

And they might even not have good considerations, but eventually realize that the oppressive system they are building is best rebuilt for something better and used differently. Wouldn't be the first time in history.

It's just that laying down your arms in hopes for that is unwise.

Year 2025 - politicians are held under control by evidence of them having raped children

Year 2035 - politicians are held under control by evidence of them having made children outside of the state incubator

and i plan to pirate GTA

I mean the whole "ban gta" movement was started by rockstar themselves. They riled up the masses about how dangerous gta is, and it worked. The moms hopped onto the train and the whole movement gained momentum and the made billions.

The thing with age verification is that I don't think it's a bad thing if done securely, but still it still makes me sad, because Internet will never be the same with it. In the end it will be only few big websites who can afford to care about Internet regulation.

Well, after all maybe it's time to switch to Gemini protocol, they are not going to regulate that!

age verification is just a BS strawman. do you remember when we where young? we would access stuff and find ways to buy stuff. but whenever there was a reasonable but fair gap, it would be much harder to get whatever we wanted: buying weed was so much easier, than buying alcohol (without the appropriate age).

pirating is easy (even i figured it out before having enough money to buy movies & games). so the kids will just pirate that stuff and get their way anyway. age verification at the store makes so much more sense. sure, there are ways to circumvent those. but it is a reasonable stop block.

Don't see how pirating well overcome the online age check.

fivem.net

I remember when me neighbour got Bully, another Rockstar game

Parents will just have their kids play on their accounts. This only hurts the average person who now needs to worry about who has that information and how it's secured.