At first I thought it was only Java edition but now it seems that all platforms will have it. We have to upload things like Digital ID or other methods to Yoti, a third party company, to verify our age if we want to use social features such as the chat. This means if we don’t even in single player the chat will be removed. Then we can’t even use coords or commands in Java single player. As of now it is unclear how and when exactly they will add this but they said on their website it is next month sometime. Not sure if it will be online only and if it will be a certain update or all updates. I doubt mods will be able to get around this. Mojang will probably tell them to be removed.
I wouldn’t worry too much about that, because I imagine it won’t be long until a mod comes out that adds the chat back in, like they did to disable the chat reporting back when Mojang thought they were going to police speech.
Ah yes, let’s add age censorship for social feature such as chat on a game targeted towards children /s
First chat censorship and now this, fuck Mojang honestly
I am pretty sure Mojang wouldn’t do this if not forced by law to do so. So it you want to “fuck” someone do it on the UK government…
So disobey the law. If everyone disobeys it en masse and people refuse to enforce it it won’t have any power. But yes, the UK government is also pretty bad lately
Honestly, age verification for chat in a game targeted to children makes sense, but in the other direction…
scuse me, Im a 30 yo guy playing with similar old friends, Id like to use chat as well
I don’t mean 30yo’s can’t use chat, you just can’t use chat to talk to 14yo’s. There would be a virtual dystopian age wall that separates the olds from the youngs. Like Logans Run, once you turn 18 you get tossed in with the olds. :D (in case it’s not clear, very much tongue in cheek, I don’t want this).
But let’s be real, none of these laws are gonna stop pedos grooming kids, or keep kids safe, it’s all just a giant waste of time. I’m sure you and your mates will either verify, or just use a different platform for chat that doesn’t require verification.
*UK only? Unless something has changed.
Yes, sorry should have said. UK only
According to this,
https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/news-minecraft-introduces-age-verification-social-features-uk
However, Mojang has stated that even if players choose not to verify, it will not affect any previous purchases, entitlements, achievements, or gameplay history. It will also not impact the ability to play and purchase games, making it a requirement strictly for social interaction within the ecosystem.
Nonetheless, it will impact useability of the chat in single player mode. Which is very important for things like commands and coordinates.
You can’t even use commands? That’s not a social feature.
The chat will most likely be disabled if you don’t do age verification. Thus you can’t put commands in the chat. Even in single player.
They have the ability to enable you to open the chat on singleplayer, and if it’s a command let you do it, but block anything that doesn’t start with a / or that starts with /whisper from being sent to servers. It’s not all or nothing. Although knowing Mojang I don’t have great faith in them.
That’s gonna be impossible to block, as plugins can just add their own commands /msg /send /w /etc. So this will either fall on the plugin developers having to ‘mark’ their custom commands, be very impossible to enforce or command usage will be blocked
So what if Mojang says to remove the mods? They probably also wanted to the remove chat filtering mods to be removed and yet they still widely exist. Mods will be able to fix this, have hope.
They could force websites to take down those mods. We will have to wait and see. I am sure there will be work arounds and loopholes.
Lmao, under what jurisdiction?
Microsoft have no power over what other websites host
The British Government as I said in my post. They have the power to make Microsoft and Mojang do anything they want.
The British government have no jurisdiction over websites hosted outside the UK.
They are not forcing people outside of the UK to do age verification. However, they are allowed to do that in the UK. Please reread what I wrote. All people IN THE UK must do age verification. Mojang have agreed to comply with the British government. So we don’t have a choice.
Pretty sure pirated Minecraft will still have all that. The more reasons to switch to the dark side…
I don’t play that version plus you run the risk of not being able to use modern updates.
Minecraft is insanely popular. Even if they use advanced DRM, someone will find a way to crack it.
