Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”

Me: “My account is 23 years old”

Valve: “That just proves your account is old”

Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”

@SecurityWriter

That account is 23 years old, what if it was just passed on to you from someone else?

So what if I go through the age verification and then pass my account on to someone else?

@chebra then you’re in violation of Steams EULA and they’ll happily terminate your account for you.

Your Account, including any information pertaining to it (e.g.: contact information, billing information, Account history and Subscriptions, etc.), is strictly personal. You may therefore not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account[…]

/cc @SecurityWriter

@heals Sure, but that's the reason THEY are citing for not accepting your 23 year-old account as enough of a proof. I'm saying they haven't removed this loophole by adding age-verification.
@chebra but they kinda did by not accepting the account age as proof in the first place - no loophole to remove if there was none to begin with? (as silly as it is, I know)

@heals @chebra @SecurityWriter "it's personal" "we tell you how you can use it"

That doesn't sound personal at all.

@chebra @SecurityWriter their TOS forbid passing on accounts to someone else (even when you die). Thus it's not possible, because you'd obviously violate their TOS. And nobody would do that
@skaverat As if TOS ever stopped anyone. But my point is that in that case they don't need object against those 23 year-old accounts. So either they are accepting the possibility, or they aren't. If that possibility exists, then it will exist also after the new age verification and they can just ask for re-verification one week later with exactly the same reasoning.