With the reputation most companies have with leaking and breached data, who wouldn't want to have their ssn and license on file with rock star games?!
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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Is it even hard ro find someone's SSN anymore?
Not really, the assholes used the last four of it for college emails in the 2000s FFS.
I'm already boycotting rockstar, just make offline games and stop with the invasive bs
Now my money is going to indie developers
(almost) every game is an offline game if you pirate it ;)
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guess ill be pirating the next one, since there will be no online mode.
Same exact thought.
The same parents that allow their children to play these games now will allow them to play then.
This will just make me not want to play these games.
Im bout to crash out this is absolutely the most stupidest idea ever. Anyone should be able to play this game regardless of age.
If the game isn't rated AO it shouldn't have an age verification.
R rating is fucking 17+ not 18+. R rating is still for minors.
If your game needs an age rating then you shouldn't be allowed to have an R rating straight to AO for you.
Oh what's that visa won't let you sell your AO rated game?
Too fucking bad.
Maybe find a better solution then. ):<
I wouldn't mind not having to play with children. But it's a privacy issue
What about disabling the shitty anti-cheat or even just enabling it on Linux so I, as a 27yo, can play the damn game?
GTA online is the worst thing to happen to the series, since it killed off story DLCs. Which were a fantastic way to get new story based content for their games between the years long wait between sequels. Damn those gamers and their obsession with buying microtransactions.
Then they double killed it when they started introducing nonsense like flying cars with rocket launchers.
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They would lose likely 98% of their player base.
maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: "look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place".
Maybe that actually makes it playable. But who am I kidding?
Seriously. Our school had a presentation by a guy about kids and computer usage. The gist of it was: Roblox bad, because of paedophiles. GTA good, because it furthers role playing. Basically the opposite of the age recommendations.
Welll...Depends on if you install mods I guess?
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Isn't GTAV an 18 rated game? So children shouldn't be able to buy it in the first place.
It's M rated. M ratings are 17+ the ESRB rating for 18+ is AO.
M ratings are for minors, AO is for adults.
You need to ID to buy an AO game, you do not for M unless it's a individual store policy.
Due to anti porn sentiment and stores refusing to carry porn. Only 24 games have ever gotten the AO rating
It's considered a death flag.
It's much like how the Deadpool movie was R rated instead of pg13. This was considered a huge risk cause R rates movies don't make money was the common theory.
But even then R rating is also for minors. Movies have the NC-17 rating which is for 18+ and thus only adults. This would be the AO rating in games.
Stores and public facing businesses are so piss scared of having adult rated content even if it's not porn, just because of the vague idea that adult only content HAS to be porn cause "what else would it be"
That rating systems have undermined their very purpose and become fucking useless. It's why everything is only M rated instead of being AO when it really should be.
It's not really relevant as the UK rating system doesn't have M or AO clarifications. The game is rated 18 so it's for adults only.
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If they roll this out to my country, I'm just not buying any of their games. My privacy is worth a lot more than that.
I might still play them, I just won't buy them, because I'm not doing age verification.
If we're going to government age verification everywhere just get rid of fucking ESRB and content ratings
Or just start fucking using the AO rating.
GTA should have a fucking AO rating but because of money no game gets more then an M rating making the entire system pointless.
Exactly. What's the point of AO is all major retailers pledged 20 years ago that they won't sell it? AO is basically a sales ban
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Can you even call it GTA online if there aren't a dozen 12 year olds running around screaming, "N***** and F*****".
Can you call it that when chat is disabled anyway ; D
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Maybe I'm dating myself but this is the same company that released state of emergency for the PS2? That game you could literally mow down people in a mall with a mini gun?
They were worried about "the children?" News to me.
My mum enjoyed the bonus level in the mall where you could just kill like 100 people as fast as you could.
Her favourite weapon is the flamethrower.
Her first reaction to the game was "that's disgusting", but I let her have a go and suddenly she was toasting a whole crowd and loving every minute of it.
That's disgusting!
Where can I find more!
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