PUBG: New State asks for age verification of under 18 players but it does a bad job
India Today
You will need to provide PUBG: New State with your age information but there is no way to verify if you said the truth.
PUBG: New State got off to a rocky start. The brand-new battle royale game from Krafton arrived on Thursday in India and 199 other countries after big anticipation, but teething problems, server glitches, and issues as severe as the ones bricking phones hampered the launch before they were fixed. If you were able to play the game, you may have noticed one thing. The game asks for age verification - much like what Battlegrounds Mobile India does. Yes, Krafton needs underage players to get their parents’ permission through this process.
When you open PUBG: New State on either an Android phone or an iOS, you see a prompt on the screen. This is just one of the few prompts that you see and it seems like an important one. The prompt is headlined “USER INFO VERIFICATION” and it asks you if you are 18 years or older. You can choose to say “YES” or “NO”. Ideally, this process is meant to minimise addiction in kids by letting their parents authorise the game sessions. But the reality seems far from it, and, funnily, this is not the first time it is happening.
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