Blizzard, my account was made in 2005,
I have no driver’s licence as for most of my life until I had surgery last year I was partially sighted and unable to drive,
I’ve never left the country so I’ve no need for a passport,
I also have no credit card, only a debit card
I’ve tried the mobile number verifications which for some reason it won’t go through,
I’m 35, I’m old enough to interact with people in WoW damnit!
Doesn’t a regular ID or birth certificate work?
It is not Blizzard’s descision, it is the UK governmet that Blizzard has to adjust their services to.
Ofcourse Mr “Roonil Wazlib”, due some specific age verification laws in your country, namely the UK Online Safety Act.
Blizzard is unfortunately obligated to request this to comply with regulations.
I am the same age as you and I cannot drive but I have a provisional licence to buy sin. I also don’t have a credit card.
I have to renew every 10 years but it’s worth it.
Tried, didn’t accept it.
I’m almost 50 and I still had to verify.
You could had bribed them with free snacks 
The topic creator’s account was created in 2005. By definition, the owner of the account is above 18, no other proof needed. In fact, we don’t even need to require a 18-year-old account for that, the Blizzard EULA that we all Agreed and Accepted upon creation of our accounts explicitly states this at the very top:
You must be and hereby affirm that you are an adult of the legal age of majority in your country and state of residence. If you are under the legal age of majority, your parent or legal guardian must consent to this Agreement. By installing or using Blizzard’s online gaming platform, you represent that your parent or legal guardian consents to this Agreement.
And then at Article A, Paragraph 1, Section ii:
Children under 13 may not utilize an Account, the Platform, nor enter into this Agreement even with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Account users 13 or older but under 18 or the age of majority where they live (a “Child”) must review this Agreement and the Privacy Policy together with your parent or guardian. If you are the parent or legal guardian of an Account user who is a Child, you also agree to be bound by this Agreement on the Child’s behalf. In the event that you permit your Child to use an Account or the Platform (including any Game), you hereby agree to this Agreement on behalf of yourself and your Child, and you understand and agree that you will be responsible for all uses of the Account or the Platform by your Child whether or not any particular use was authorized by you. Parents/guardians are jointly and severally liable for all acts and omissions of their Child for all uses of the Account and Platform.
If Blizzard cannot use the above as an argument then this implies one or both of the following:
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Oh, typical Monday. I’m back on Classic characters on the forums >.>
Nothing Blizzard can do really.. they have to comply with UK laws or get fined. Verification is handled by Yoti who, hopefully, have no data on the accounts.
Aaand.. the forums are broken again.. 
This isn’t about Blizz hence why we haven’t had to do this before.
It’s the new UK laws.
I need clarification then, since I am not in the UK but I am in support of protection of personal data:
a) The new law simply requires that people interacting online are adults.
b) Therefore they ask from Blizzard to confirm that their players are adults.
c) Blizzard explicitly has us sign a contract (by us clicking on “I Agree”) where we confirm that we are either adults, or that we are under supervision of an adult. Which we sign, therefore we confirm.
These 3 sentences above are, from a legal point of view to the best of my knowledge, confirmation that everyone participating in interactions in the game is either an adult, or under supervision of one while they are online.
If the above are not strong enough evidence, then they can perform the ones already mentioned in other threads:
If the above are still not considered strong evidence, then how is uploading a falsifiable document, that any teenager can nowadays do by searching around the web for 5 minutes, strong?
Call me tinfoil-hatted, but to me this is about more than just age confirmation, but is advertised as such.
Sony PlayStation is using same company to verify and they have been doing it for some time but it does have the option to face scan which tells it if you are an adult or not .
So no idea why blizzard has specifically told them not to use face scan at all as an option .
By the end of the day it is still a useless exercise. Just like Australia has banned 16 years old from social media but a new report says that under 16 most of them are still on social media even as 3 months have passed on the ban.
This is exactly why I am very tinfoil-y about the whole situation. We know it doesn’t work flawlessly. We know they already have that data for the majority of their accounts. We know we can falsify data. We know we can just ask an older sibling / cousin / neighbour for a face scan if we somehow fail to scan a random adult’s photograph from the web. You don’t even need to be or ask a computer guy/gal to achieve this. This is more about collection of data for advertising purposes rather than protection of under-18s.
No they need to know if a child is playing to protect them from chat.
Even wow has people dangerous for children in it. They are in every game.
Armory fires… Matches the weather where I’m at.
You’ll need to ask the UK gov directly why they want explicitly those data and nothing else from Blizzard’s account info to verify age.
It’s just a “sweep over all industries with one verfication method”. You’ll need ID, credit card, driving liscence, something in those lines for nearly every service that needs serious age verification.
It’s sometimes pretty stupid but gov’s simplify those processes for all services.
You should know that this is normal practice for “actual” age verification and always has been.
We haven’t had such draconic (for our tastes) measures here. Any service that asks for age verification either works through ID if physically close (for example entrance to an adult store) which is literally just the clerk checking date of birth on the fly, or logging in with the same credentials we use for filling in our taxes online (which is something that every citizen with an assigned VAT number has). In the latter case, there is a government pop-up or intermediate window that explicitly confirms that the only data transmitted to the webpage or application is the verification of minimum age without even giving the information of what that age is or the login username. Maybe I’m naive for believing that, but someone would have found out and caused a political scandal if it did happen.
Getting an email for age verification when this character alone is 19 years old, utterly ridiculous. Age verification is just data collection again.
Same situation, 2004 here.It looks like anyone in the UK has to provide this.
When accounts are clearly this old, it’s just common sense that if an account was created this long ago with the same account holder, then it’s already confirming that person is well over 18.