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That's exactly what the Steam employee told me.

I want to point out that buying 51% of a company's stock makes you its largest shareholder and sole decision-maker...

And as you can read below, PayPal Holdings Inc has indeed authorized a buyout plan (article published on February 4, 2025)

Well that Steam eployee lied to you then. Yes buying up 51% of the votes (not the stock, but the votes) gains you veto power at shareholder meetings but there have been no such bid made on Paypal and 80% of the votes are held by long term investors (read institutions) so you cannot get 51% by silently buying up stocks from the exchange either (aka the free float is less than 20%).

When it comes to your link your AI translation translated it wrongly into French. That news item had nothing to do with authorizing any buyout plan (a board cannot even make such an authorization, what the board can do is give their recommendation for or against a buyout offer, also such a offer must have been made public before the board can make any recommendation and since there exists not such offer there also exists no recommendation).

No what that news item was about was the board launching a share buyback program worth $15bn.

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They should start selling special 18+ versions of their steam wallet cards in shops.

You could easily sell those underhandedly to minors. Sure, you could also give away your credit card information, but you'd be quite an idiot to do so.

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This is good news. Read "Your Brain on Porn."

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This hasn't reached my country yet, but I'm almost ready to pull the Internet plug. It's a shame of my Steam library. But my GOG library and my physical Playstation 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 collection is a nice alternative.

As for the online services as Steam, so long and thanks for the fish.

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@ F.Ultra

No they haven't, Paypal is a publicly traded company.

That's exactly what the Steam employee told me.

I want to point out that buying 51% of a company's stock makes you its largest shareholder and sole decision-maker...

And as you can read below, PayPal Holdings Inc has indeed authorized a buyout plan (article published on February 4, 2025)

https://ch.zonebourse.com/cours/action/PAYPAL-HOLDINGS-INC-23377703/actualite/PayPal-Holdings-Inc-autorise-un-plan-de-rachat-48953097/

To read :

In early July 2025, PayPal stopped processing Steam purchases denominated in most global currencies. Officially, PayPal's bank acquirer shut off the flow of payments overnight. Unofficially, the decision comes amid a surge in payments platforms surrounding adult content, a pressure that has already led to massive game removals on Steam and itch.io. Valve insists that the currency issue is "just about money." It's hard to hear this without seeing the shadow of the censorship campaigns carried out in recent weeks.

https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/paypal-steam-et-la-tentation-de-censure-quand-l-argent-dicte-la-norme-de-coonsommation-3050865252.html

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That information is the same as used as the age verification on vending machines selling cigarettes. It's a good way to verify age without sending official documents around to some 3rd party entities.

That said, having a young stepson, I found the parental controls pretty okay in steam.

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Nice game idea!

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i think this is same like Fire Kirin, according to my experiance it contain same gameplay actions

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The problem with the UK is that their last head of government who wasn't a complete idiot was named Winston Churchill.

That's a rather drastic misspelling of "Clement Attlee".

(Actually, I'm fairly ignorant of the postwar-but-pre-Thatcher British PMs; there could be some good ones. Thatcher and everyone since have sucked, and I know Attlee was good, but in between I'm not sure)

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Fantastic game.
I'd describe it as "Programmable Autobattler Pokemon Class Build Pr0n".

It is not technically an autobattler, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone play it after the first few hours without using the VERY programmable autofight macros and without setting the speed to the highest setting.
A few times, the available commands are not quite enough and you need to intervene manually, but it is rare.

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...A bank bought Paypal...

No they haven't, Paypal is a publicly traded company.

It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.

If that was true then it would have far easier for the UK to simply ask their very own GRO since they already have a full register on every single UK citizen there. Not everything is a conspiracy, especially when one isn't needed...

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It's not that they want to protect children, it's about that the UK that wants to know who the adults are. All parties in the UK are bad.
I remember a McCarthy claiming that downloading mp3 songs funds terrorism around the time that we were in Brussels protesting against software patents.
She wanted to have DPI to detect the downloading of mp3 songs.
The current "child protection" is exactly that, just they disguise it as a way to protect children.
I wonder how the UK would handle roblox? As that's a platform that can be harmful to children, unlike anything in the steam store.

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I'm interested in purchasing this game down the line since the game play looks cool and I like horror games, which checks out here.

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Nah. I don't think they can do anything about it. Look at Don Bluth, who produced a whole host of non-Disney animated films such as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Titan A.E. and Anastasia. The style is very similar and, to my knowledge, Disney never tried to shut him down.

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The tragic part isn't even the immediate effects in the UK but that this sets a precedent for governments elsewhere that it can be done. Non-engagement with such a system should be seen as a duty by both vendors and by the people suffering under it.

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Ran into a major sound problem, in that I don't have any at all from the game. Looks like a bunch of people using both desktop Linux and Steam Deck are experiencing the same thing. From what I gather, it's trying to use any other sound option it can except the default.

The workaround seems to be, if you have any other sound option in your settings, switch to that and then back again while the game is running. It worked for me, but if I restart I have to do it again, so not a persistent fix.

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hard to believe people are taking this laying down.. We truly live in Orwellian times.. because you People HAVE to know this law has squat to do with protecting your kids

It has everything to do with capitulating with the mass media who platform pressure groups (in this case, the fathers of children who died by suicide) in order to look "tough" against the social media companies, all the while actually screwing over the people and artists by siding with those same companies in absolutely everything else.

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I hate that politicians, who have no idea what they are doing, put these in place without consulting with people who do know what they are doing.

Ofcom (who is responsible for the details) consulted on the implementation and then essentially did what they planned to anyway. I know, I consulted my own users, them wrote a 28-page response to one of their consultations on behalf of a site I run.

There is a bit of a get out in the legislation which states that (paraphrasing) expectations should be aligned with the capabilities of the service concerned. Still, many of the costed expectations for e.g. age-appropriate recommender systems for mixed-content services are unrealistic for community sites, and many other requirements appear non-negotiable. Their own expectation is that this will result in some "exiting the UK market".

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hard to believe people are taking this laying down.. We truly live in Orwellian times.. because you People HAVE to know this law has squat to do with protecting your kids

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I just finished installing Manjaro on my new Framework 16 (already old-gen, I guess ? ), and I really love it !

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I'm fine with that, although I agree that this is not the best solution ever.

Best one IMHO would be to have a 2FA Web app under the gov.uk domain. This could be then consumed as a standard by all the services and websites who sell mature content.

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I contacted Paypal about not being able to use their services to purchase games on Steam from my country of residence, which is not England.

They were very dishonest, refusing to tell me the truth and claiming that it was Steam who, according to them, had made the decision to no longer work with Paypal :) As if the people at Steam were masochists and wanted to harm their business !! Paypal is openly making fun of us...

The Steam people are telling the truth: A bank bought Paypal and has since declared war on Steam for questionable ethical reasons. I would like to know which bank we are talking about and especially if it has any connection with Microsoft, which tried unsuccessfully to buy Steam some time ago...

If they really wanted to comply with English law, why block payments in almost every country in the world ?

This makes no sense, and it's probably just another lie, or the people at PayPal are complete idiots who are doing stupid things without even realizing it... which I doubt !!

In my opinion, they know exactly what they are doing and are exerting pressure that is most likely illegal on Steam (at least in my country which is not England) for another reason that they do not want to reveal to us. Otherwise they wouldn't lie to us...

Since Paypal is preventing me from purchasing my games, I have decided to avoid using their services as much as possible while this situation continues. I have already cancelled standing order debits that I had previously set up with Paypal to pay for Netflix.

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The law has been passed by the Torries.

We can't vote but we can boycott.

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Ace Attorney and Megaman Battle Network are fantastic games!

But €37 is a steep ask for a humble bundle, right?

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Wonder how long the UK government will keep this running. What happens if money becomes tight or the Tories take power again?


The law has been passed by the Torries.

Ohh. Didn't know that.

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The law has been passed by the Torries.

Yes. And the current not-Tory government had every chance on earth to let this law die in legislature. They didn't. The problem with the UK is that their last head of government who wasn't a complete idiot was named Winston Churchill.

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This is going to stop nobody.

Hell these days a lot of parents will give their kids a debit card with a tiny bit on money on it in case of an emergency or lunch money!

UK will probably ask for DNA verification next! Please wait while we decode your RNA strains... lol

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Wonder how long the UK government will keep this running. What happens if money becomes tight or the Tories take power again?

The law has been passed by the Torries.

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If no one obeys, no one commands. No one voted for this, no one asked us if we agreed. They will never have my credit card, I will play something else.

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It does look almost exactly like classic Disney animation. I hope they can't go after them or anything. Added this to my Steam wish list.

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