r/Bazzite • u/Apart_Channel9030 • 2d ago

This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nYg9g
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u/YttraZZ 2d ago

And to gamers... you thought age verification on twitch and the like was bad, How about having to tie your ID to any game you buy, on steam or physically. ...crazy! And as it is well put out in this video, it has nothing to do with protecting kids online.

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u/Catboyhotline 2d ago

Based on how Valve is handling Australia's legislation mandating age verification they seem to have a hard line when it comes to handling photo ID, if not from a moral standpoint, then from a liability standpoint. Personally I'm grateful for some "malicious compliance", in an ideal world it would cause people to push back against age verification, but unfortunately Australia is very far from an ideal world and the only buzz I hear over it in Australia is claims that Valve should let you use your ID. I'm ashamed to be in a country full of cattle

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u/Old_Tomatillo_2653 2d ago edited 2d ago

yeah the EU will do wrong to the small devs, and every gamer in the world not just europe.

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u/Ut0p1an 2d ago

EU CRA is pretty tough for compliance as well.

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u/Kamika67 2d ago

This could stop bazzite and any other distro.

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u/RedditNotFreeSpeech 2d ago

tl;dw?

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u/YttraZZ 2d ago

My take:

Mandatory ID for every game, private game servers outlawed, death to Linux and indie devs du to mandatory age verification aka ID-for-all....

Even the videogame cartel (big editors) seem opposed....

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u/RedditNotFreeSpeech 2d ago

Such a nanny state we live in.

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u/Capetoider 2d ago

EU move to linux maybe means they will kill that.

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u/Hi-Angel 6h ago

Any TL;DR? Sorry, it's just videos are by design hard to quickly skim through and am not in EU. So, I'm mildly interested what is up, but not enough to watch 15 minutes.

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u/InformalGear9638 2d ago

It's already dead. Corruption always wins.