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Machiavellian said:

Shaunodon said:

They consider voice chat a social feature? I just assumed they meant social media nonsense or whatever apps I never bother checking. And they already plan to implement this in other countries.

They already make people pay a ridiculous amount for online services, now they're putting fundamental parts of it behind an age verification method which requires private information no one should be sharing.

Its this all because of the law that was passed in the EU.  I believe we will be seeing something of the same thing with Sony as they will need to comply as well.  Not sure if this effect Nintendo because they already do not allow this on their console I believe.  

Also from what I read is that it uses age simulation which I would believe is the date of the account.  If you like myself have had an account since the first Xbox, well there is no need for all that other stuff.  Should be interesting how this will be done with other games and services like Steam.

The fact that local goverments inact these policies and corporations are already prepared to not only implement them, but already plan to spread it to other countries is the problem in the first place. It's an incredibly dangerous precedent.

We shouldn't have to be worrying about details of what kind of restrictions may or may not apply to us. They shouldn't have the right to impose their bullshit over us. We allow this now, it only opens the door for them to get more greedy and abusive.