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It reeeally annoys you that you have to do that one extra click huh
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Where; what jurisdictions? Could you point me to the law or regulation?
In the US, there's legal prohibitions against offering adult content to minors, but there's not really specifics in the law on how to do that. These little disclaimers might serve as a component of the defense against charges of distributing porn to minors, but not a very strong component. But these warnings are incredibly low effort things for devs to include and nanoscopic inconveniences to players, so the tradition continues.
Edit: There are some very new laws in Utah, and Texas, I think. The ones that ran the big porn sites out of those states, but these warnings and disclaimers have been in adult games for far, far longer than those laws.
It's there for a reason, you want a game without that then pay a Dev out of your own pocket, the whole Game, so that he doesn't have to go to Patreon or similar things
- Oct 19, 2022
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Honestly, yeah...It reeeally annoys you that you have to do that one extra click huh
This game's plot involves MC wondering if his parents are actually dead. Arguably there's no game without them being dead.
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It has to be a full screen. If you have it in a corner or something and the attract screen of the game has suggestive and/or explicit content that's a legal issue. The dev themselves have to program that screen, which is a lot more work than your one click.
"Earl Cross: All day long I hear excuses why people can't work. I'm tired,
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You seem to know even more details than the average F95 lawyer, so again I ask: What statute, regulation, or policy mandates these screens? This isn't the first time I've seen expert opinion on this subject, but I've never seen the basis for these "legal issues".
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As a proponent of yes all, I hate extra "choice" clicks. Will I quit a game for it, no. Will it affect my overall enjoyment of the story, no. Would it impact my rating if I bothered to do those things, no.
Does my internal monologue heave a giant overly dramatic long-suffering sigh everytime I have to click one, yes, yes it does.
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Is it legal to show/sell/distribute or otherwise give adult rated material to a minor?
Yes/No/Maybe?
So therefore the damn screen you have to click exists. Just like there's a disclaimer on every damn porn film every made. Just like shopkeers (if they have any damn sense) will not sell you any physical material, be it in an adult store or buying Playboy from your local corner shop without proof of age.
Btw, the world does not revolve around the good ole US of A laws either, even if it does like to think of itself as the worlds police
So maybe take the stick out and accept that age verifiction is mandatory.
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Under 18 U.S.C. § 1470, an individual commits an offense when they use the internet, mail, or other means affecting interstate or foreign commerce to transfer obscenity to a minor.
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That's correct. That's the law, but you'll notice that it says nothing about requiring age verification screens, nor how much focus they must take on the screen, nor about requiring clicks to dismiss them.