Stupid "age gate" on web site

daneyulebub17_ESO

If you are going to have an "adults only" policy on the web site--can you at least just ask, simply, "are you over 18" (or "of legal age of consent in your region") instead of the stoooooooopid drop down fields that everyone just randomly chooses from anyway? It's an insultingly stupid mechanism that's a pain in the a** to have to do each time.

fromtesonlineb16_ESO

I do it once in a blue moon, I rarely have to clear cookies, maybe your browser's the problem?

Shunravi

The system is stupid and easy to bypass for any five year old. It's slapdash, and only there because they received an unexpected M rating for the game. I'm pretty sure it's a legal requirement.

SantieClaws

That article on the provisioning update was pretty racey you know. Vegetable dishes, alcoholic drinks, gutting fish, talk about tomatoes etc.

Gotta protect the children from careless talk about cooking!

Tandor

wenxue2222b16_ESO wrote: »

That article on the provisioning update was pretty racey you know. Vegetable dishes, alcoholic drinks, gutting fish, talk about tomatoes etc.

Gotta protect the children from careless talk about cooking!

Now we know the real reason why there are no children in the game, the provisioners scared them all away. Or perhaps fish are not the only things that can be gutted for the meat...

onlinegamer1

I thought we were all born on Jan 1 1900 ?

Shunravi

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

I thought we were all born on Jan 1 1900 ?

Sometimes I just can't be bothered to scroll all the way down...

Merlin13KAGL

Direct links are your friend...(think of them as the tunnel through the fence).

(More like the fence only extends 10' to the right and 10' to the left.) so you can enter the code, or you can just walk around to the other side.

Rosveen

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

I thought we were all born on Jan 1 1900 ?

So I'm the only one who gives my real age? I should have known.

Merlin13KAGL

Rosveen wrote: »

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

I thought we were all born on Jan 1 1900 ?

So I'm the only one who gives my real age? I should have known.

Identity...stolen...

Mordria

The things people complain about just boggles the mind.

Rosveen

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

onlinegamer1 wrote: »

I thought we were all born on Jan 1 1900 ?

So I'm the only one who gives my real age? I should have known.

Identity...stolen...

There are forums out there where my date of birth is publicly displayed on my profile. I don't think lying to an age gate can help me at this point.

daneyulebub17_ESO

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Direct links are your friend...(think of them as the tunnel through the fence).

(More like the fence only extends 10' to the right and 10' to the left.) so you can enter the code, or you can just walk around to the other side.

Not when you're clicking a link on a web page, or in the announcement window of the launcher.

daneyulebub17_ESO

Mordria wrote: »

The things people complain about just boggles the mind.

Your mind is "boggled" because someone doesn't like having to go through a silly age gate, requiring multiple clicks and scrolls, whenever they click a provided link to an article, and that they might therefore complain about it on the company's forum? That "boggles" your mind??? Are you quite sure your mind wasn't already pre-boggled? Just a little?

I'm thinking maybe it was. You should look into that.

Merlin13KAGL

daneyulebub17_ESO wrote: »

Mordria wrote: »

The things people complain about just boggles the mind.

Your mind is "boggled" because someone doesn't like having to go through a silly age gate, requiring multiple clicks and scrolls, whenever they click a provided link to an article, and that they might therefore complain about it on the company's forum? That "boggles" your mind??? Are you quite sure your mind wasn't already pre-boggled? Just a little?

I'm thinking maybe it was. You should look into that.

Indeed...I'd at least feel better about it if it asked me my age each time - at least that has potential to change.

My birthday?

Same as it was the last time I was here...

(It's like they're trying to trick you into revealing something.)

Kartalin

The age gate screen is annoying, but the biggest concern for me is the mobile version. I'm constantly switching it to the full site, but it doesn't remember my preference always. I can be on the forum index in the full site version on my phone browser, click on a thread, read it, and go back to the index which is now in the mobile version. And sometimes it randomly says I'm logged out but when I refresh I'm logged in again.

Ouranos

When I was little, I was paranoid about this kind of thing and would always tell the truth about my birthday Like the police would show up or something.

Ourorboros

Real world analogy to date-gate:

Mordria

daneyulebub17_ESO wrote: »

Mordria wrote: »

The things people complain about just boggles the mind.

Your mind is "boggled" because someone doesn't like having to go through a silly age gate, requiring multiple clicks and scrolls, whenever they click a provided link to an article, and that they might therefore complain about it on the company's forum? That "boggles" your mind??? Are you quite sure your mind wasn't already pre-boggled? Just a little?

I'm thinking maybe it was. You should look into that.

Yeah, that 5 seconds it takes to complete a real tragedy. I think we should just be glad we don't actually have to verify our age with a credit card or something.

Cody

The game should not have an M rating to begin with in my opinion... there is no gore, rarely is there any blood, there is some vulgar language, but not to a huge extent like say GTA. There is VERY little nudity, and the only drug being used is alcohol, which one can never even see in the game if they never paid attention to any of the bars/inns.(I suppose moon sugar could be pot, but that is rarely even seen anyway) I personally think the game should have been rated T. The community I suppose could register an M rating.. but there is an IGNORE BUTTON that people just love to pretend does not exist.

But nowadays if a game has even a spec of violence, it receives an M rating.... so disappointing.

ANYWAY yes its a rather funny and pointless mechanism. I lied on it with every use until I just turned 18 2 months ago:D

Valymer

Cody wrote: »

The game should not have an M rating to begin with in my opinion... there is no gore, rarely is there any blood, there is some vulgar language, but not to a huge extent like say GTA. There is VERY little nudity, and the only drug being used is alcohol, which one can never even see in the game if they never paid attention to any of the bars/inns.(I suppose moon sugar could be pot, but that is rarely even seen anyway) I personally think the game should have been rated T. The community I suppose could register an M rating.. but there is an IGNORE BUTTON that people just love to pretend does not exist.

But nowadays if a game has even a spec of violence, it receives an M rating.... so disappointing.

ANYWAY yes its a rather funny and pointless mechanism. I lied on it with every use until I just turned 18 2 months ago:D

Lol, moon sugar is definitely not pot. I'd say it's more like a weak opiate, since the apparently heroin-like skooma is derived from it.

I agree with you on the M rating though, no idea why this game has it.

Shunravi

Cody wrote: »

The game should not have an M rating to begin with in my opinion... there is no gore, rarely is there any blood, there is some vulgar language, but not to a huge extent like say GTA. There is VERY little nudity, and the only drug being used is alcohol, which one can never even see in the game if they never paid attention to any of the bars/inns.(I suppose moon sugar could be pot, but that is rarely even seen anyway) I personally think the game should have been rated T. The community I suppose could register an M rating.. but there is an IGNORE BUTTON that people just love to pretend does not exist.

But nowadays if a game has even a spec of violence, it receives an M rating.... so disappointing.

ANYWAY yes its a rather funny and pointless mechanism. I lied on it with every use until I just turned 18 2 months ago:D

Heck, if you pay attention to half the lore of WoW, it has far more disturbing content than anything seen in ESO.

Just one example; http://www.wowwiki.com/Thaddius

I mean, seriously? That has a teen rating?
There are actually children in WoW, making that description that much more impactfull.

Sorry for bringing up the game-that-must-not-be-named...

daneyulebub17_ESO

I especially love it when, in a hurry, I just scroll down to a year I think is reasonably down the list, and get "Access Denied"--and have to clear my cache/cookies before it will let me back. What a stupid PITA worthless interface to saddle your readers with.

Castle117

yep and the fact that we have to log into the forums to skip to the most recent posts (takes several clicks and scrolls to get to last post if not logged in).

Robocles

My favorite part is that it asks for your age, and you're actually still logged into the site.

daneyulebub17_ESO

The US and UK, at least, seem to have no requirements for age verification on an "M" site. This is just lazy, cover-your-butt web design that in the long run hinders ESO by giving visitors a terrible first impression when they first go to the site, and annoys its core users. Somebody doing the web page just blindly copied what everyone else does without a thought to if it could be implemented more sensibly.

Rosveen

Cody wrote: »

The game should not have an M rating to begin with in my opinion... there is no gore, rarely is there any blood, there is some vulgar language, but not to a huge extent like say GTA. There is VERY little nudity, and the only drug being used is alcohol, which one can never even see in the game if they never paid attention to any of the bars/inns.(I suppose moon sugar could be pot, but that is rarely even seen anyway) I personally think the game should have been rated T. The community I suppose could register an M rating.. but there is an IGNORE BUTTON that people just love to pretend does not exist.

But nowadays if a game has even a spec of violence, it receives an M rating.... so disappointing.

ANYWAY yes its a rather funny and pointless mechanism. I lied on it with every use until I just turned 18 2 months ago:D

M-rated content doesn't always take visual form. No nudity, yes; but plenty of sexual innuendos in dialogues, including things like BDSM and ***. It's impossible to NOT notice alcohol in the game if you go to Skyrim: Windhelm is one huge party and there's a drinking contest in the Rift where your vision gets blurry, you throw up and can pass out. There is beheading, tearing out people's hearts and eyeballs, ritual suicide. I could find far more interesting things if I looked inside in-game books, but let's leave it as something most players ignore.

I would have no problem at all with letting a younger teenager play ESO (it's rated 16+ in Europe, actually), but the M rating isn't entirely unfounded. "There are more brutal games out there" isn't a good enough argument against it, IMO.

edit: non-consensual sex. Please, stop censoring this word, ZOS.

Roechacca

Still looking for the mature forums here

Cody

Rosveen wrote: »

Cody wrote: »

The game should not have an M rating to begin with in my opinion... there is no gore, rarely is there any blood, there is some vulgar language, but not to a huge extent like say GTA. There is VERY little nudity, and the only drug being used is alcohol, which one can never even see in the game if they never paid attention to any of the bars/inns.(I suppose moon sugar could be pot, but that is rarely even seen anyway) I personally think the game should have been rated T. The community I suppose could register an M rating.. but there is an IGNORE BUTTON that people just love to pretend does not exist.

But nowadays if a game has even a spec of violence, it receives an M rating.... so disappointing.

ANYWAY yes its a rather funny and pointless mechanism. I lied on it with every use until I just turned 18 2 months ago:D

M-rated content doesn't always take visual form. No nudity, yes; but plenty of sexual innuendos in dialogues, including things like BDSM and ***. It's impossible to NOT notice alcohol in the game if you go to Skyrim: Windhelm is one huge party and there's a drinking contest in the Rift where your vision gets blurry, you throw up and can pass out. There is beheading, tearing out people's hearts and eyeballs, ritual suicide. I could find far more interesting things if I looked inside in-game books, but let's leave it as something most players ignore.

I would have no problem at all with letting a younger teenager play ESO (it's rated 16+ in Europe, actually), but the M rating isn't entirely unfounded. "There are more brutal games out there" isn't a good enough argument against it, IMO.

edit: non-consensual sex. Please, stop censoring this word, ZOS.

I did not use the "more violent games" argument, I used" this game is not that bad and deserves a T rating for X reasons" argument