Instead of saying, people need this or that to handle car driving. To prevent car accidents, no one drives a car. Just because steam shuts down store pages does not mean, that that is what the law requires. Oh, and the irony, saying this law was nonsensical, but being fine with an age gate that only filters out people who can not count current year minus 18.Hillarious! Then EVERY SINGLE payment must be seen as FRAUDULENT.Īs you can never know who used the payment method. You want to buy the game? Click the link we sent you to the specific account.Īnd if anyone still claims, it would not prove identity, An email that is so official that it can be used by the police as a legitimate "post box". It would cost at most 80 cent to verify the age with an email to a "verified of person and age" email.Īn email with a link. It doesn'tt matter that you can just google for lewder stuff - the sites you find aren't as big and legitimate as Steam - they get away with ignoring German laws and regulations for now - but that might changes any time. Valve (as well as other stores) hat a pretty long period of grace to look for solutions, almost none came up with anything but closing stores to German customers. have become a problem in the eyes of said laws. If Valve feel the best option is to block the storepages in question to German users, that may be irritating, but also all they need to do.įun fact: The laws have 'always' been there and from a perspective of youth protection they make some, perhaps even a lot of sense, it just took time to realize digital markets for videogames / videos etc.
As a matter of fact, it is not Valves job to look for a solution, it is only necessary for them to follow the German laws. If you want a lot of Germans in the discussion, try the German forum - but don't be surprised if the thread is locked or merged with one of the huge, increasingly silly and largely pointless threads that already exist. Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥ and Balls:Damn hell of a lot of MURICANS in this discussion.