It starts with asking for your birth date, but how long before they want more - and for other places to create similar laws? It's a slippery slope.

No, it's not a slippery slope. Please stop spreading this fallacious argument. Many politicians in the US and abroad are pushing for actual ID scanning now. CA could've done that here if that was truly their endgame.

If age verification systems of some kind are inevitable (and this blog has speculated in the past that they are) then this is the most privacy-respecting solution that has been legislated so far to my knowledge. An on-device and completely fungible input of some kind that is then abstracted before being broadcast elsewhere. It's so privacy-respecting that it's actually completely useless if the parent doesn't set up the device before the kid uses it.

We'd much rather have this law become the model than the laws similar to what Texas and the UK have passed, where they want each individual website to separately verify ages by having the user give them personally-identifiable information like IDs and selfies. This would lead to dozens of companies and "trusted partners" handling personally-identifiable information in potentially wildly differing ways. Such a situation nearly guarantees this info getting leaked on a long enough timeline.

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Quoting: SolipsistWerewolfThe business model alone is enough to drive me away. The era of pay-to-pay is here.

The era is here? You had to buy World of Warcraft and still pay every month. Or what about all other real TCGs? As if that's anything new.

I meant that the practice is getting more common in the AAA space, not that Artifact is the first one ever.

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The business model alone is enough to drive me away. The era of pay-to-pay is here.

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Dirt Rally 2 would be great.

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Ugh. I've got a few solid DRM-free Linux native RPGs from them. The chances that those will remain under this transition is not high seeing as Microsoft loves their shitty Windows Store.

If that does come true, I lost some future games, and they lost a potential customer.

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Another Early Access open-world survival. Why is "very exciting" in the title?

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It's attached to the community market, and there's almost certainly going to be microtransactions, so that's enough to get a no from me. The fact that it has an entry fee is almost an insult considering it's GaaS.

Next.

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Got Sunless Sea from a free GOG thing a bit back. Played a bit yesterday and the whole thing just clicked for me. So, guess I'll be doing Sunless Sea.

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Pass.

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Well, if they do end up making a Linux version I will probably play it.

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