New policy for Xbox Accounts now require some users to verify their age with the developer, with plans for policy in the near future more widespread. Online privacy and content have become a problem with hot buttons over recent weeks. Everything from adults to horror games was the aim of a new lawsuit and actions of various developers in the last few weeks. Now Xbox is interested in its own position on its age verification policy.
Online censorship has seen a large increase in discussion in recent weeks because more and more organizations are taking steps, especially in game communities. Steam has sent shock waves during the game space when it began to exclude platform games, with content quotation that “violates the standards of determined payment processors”. The United Kingdom also presented a controversial online security law at the beginning of this month, which aims to protect children from dangerous online content, but detectives were railings like “censorship” and “dystopic”. Xbox is now following a lawsuit with its own policy of verifying a new age.
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Policy to verify the age of Xbox in the UK
According to IGN, Xbox now introduces limited policy for users based on British age users with plans to expand to other regions. The new Xbox policy will require some users to verify their age with a developer using third -party software or the risk of losing access to search for group functions, own clubs and vision of communication limited to friends. This change would even see that unused users will lose access to both Discord and Twitch on the Xbox consoles. Microsoft has also shared that the change is likely to be brought to other regions, after its introduction in the UK.
The recent fever surrounding online security and censorship has been met with a lot of will from fans. The recent mass removal of Steam has brought a significant outrage of fans, while the Change.org petition gathered against movement and accumulated more than 160,000 signatures. This change has seen many fans who gathered mainly against payments such as Visa and MasterCard, commonly considered to be some of the largest drivers as a recent censorship. Microsoft said its new age verification is planned to become mandatory in early 2026.
The new age -to -box verification policy has been following several other games and developers who are beginning to implement restrictions. At the beginning of this year, Discord began to introduce its own age -verification policy, and some users had to confirm their age to access certain parts of the platform. Many games like The impact of genshin and Call of duty They also began to enact their own policies of age verification, especially in games with heavy microtracks. Online security and censorship will probably continue to be a dividing topic, as playing games are still used by fans of all age groups.
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Microsoft
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10 November 2020
- Original MSRP (USD)
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499 $
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Proprietary (based on Windows)
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Own 8 -core Zen 2 3.8 GHz
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720p – 4K UHD
