Microsoft want me to confirm my age on my Xbox account to retain access to certain features.
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Microsoft want me to confirm my age on my Xbox account to retain access to certain features. My account is old enough to drink, surely they can work that out?
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Microsoft want me to confirm my age on my Xbox account to retain access to certain features. My account is old enough to drink, surely they can work that out?
@Lacey Technically yes HOWEVER the point is always that the user has to fulfill the action themselves for the confirmation to have legal basis. Source: I worked for a company running marketing backend for a big ass corporation.
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@Lacey Technically yes HOWEVER the point is always that the user has to fulfill the action themselves for the confirmation to have legal basis. Source: I worked for a company running marketing backend for a big ass corporation.
Plus, from the developer perspective: it's two things to code now. Also, what if the requirements change and accounts can be inherited?
Comparatively, confirming your age is a simple action you only need to do once.
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Microsoft want me to confirm my age on my Xbox account to retain access to certain features. My account is old enough to drink, surely they can work that out?
@Lacey This. Plus it's already linked to a CC in my name too. FFS.
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@Lacey This. Plus it's already linked to a CC in my name too. FFS.
@ga5p0d3 Yup, and has been for around 20 years... And I'm pretty sure my current MS account originated as a hotmail account which would have been from around 99/2000
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Plus, from the developer perspective: it's two things to code now. Also, what if the requirements change and accounts can be inherited?
Comparatively, confirming your age is a simple action you only need to do once.
You only need to do it once, right?@dragonfi @hardpenguin13 @Lacey surely if accounts can be inherited, any verification would need to be redone anyway?
I currently have a Steam account that's over twenty years old, but I can't verify it because Valve went for the easiest option of requiring a credit card, and they don't accept the only credit card I have. Avoiding friction for your users with a relatively simple code path compared to the other options feels like an easy one to justify, assuming it's legal?
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@dragonfi @hardpenguin13 @Lacey surely if accounts can be inherited, any verification would need to be redone anyway?
I currently have a Steam account that's over twenty years old, but I can't verify it because Valve went for the easiest option of requiring a credit card, and they don't accept the only credit card I have. Avoiding friction for your users with a relatively simple code path compared to the other options feels like an easy one to justify, assuming it's legal?
@turmoni @dragonfi @hardpenguin13 I don't know if they have inheritance? Maybe.
Just feels a bit silly. Even my avatar is from the XBox live avatar generator on the 360 :) He should probably have a few more grey hairs and the like by now.
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Microsoft want me to confirm my age on my Xbox account to retain access to certain features. My account is old enough to drink, surely they can work that out?
@Lacey there was a platform that did something like that actually, when they introduced age verification they assumed that all accounts older than a certain number of years belonged to people who were of age.
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