this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
93 points (98.9% liked)
Australia
5163 readers
191 users here now
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
22 year old steam account, never had a credit card on the account and never will. Locked out of games I paid for. And just like that, my time buying games through steam is done.
You can still install and play games you've bought (I have personally verified this), you just can't view the store page, which is more than a little silly.
But yes, GOG deserves our money more: DRM-free and preserving old games. I always buy from them if I can.
I don't have cyberpunk installed. I can't install it.
What happens when you try?
Yeah, you need to go through 'Library', not 'Store'.
Library > Search 'Cyberpunk' > Click it > Click 'Install'
No, I don't.
I need to be able to access games I paid for, without arbitrary lockdowns.
I can't, so my time with steam is done...
Sure, do what you want, of course, but you said "I can’t install it.", and that's not true.
If you want to go support GOG by buying another copy of your games there, I think that's great! But other people might not be able to or want to do that, and I wouldn't want them to think they can't play their games on Steam anymore when they can.
I wish you'd have opened with that...
Not that it makes any difference. I'm unlikely to play cyberpunk again any time soon, and either way, it's a massive red flag from valve that has destroyed any confidence I had in the future accessibility of my steam library, and destroyed any willingness I had to give valve money in the future.
Like, you might not be 18. How on earth could they know? They didn't check your I'd 22 years ago. So it makes sense to do so now.
You should still be able to install and play previously purchased games, just not buy new 18+ ones
Firstly, I can't install games that are locked down, so I can't access my own copy of cyberpunk, because I can't reinstall it.
Even if I could reinstall it, but was locked out of future R rated purchases, that would be the end of my steam purchasing, because fuck that
Are you trying to reinstall from the store page? It should work if you search your library directly.
My account is "unverified" just like yours and I'm able to reinstall cyberpunk perfectly fine, even though the store page is locked down.
Haven't tried that, because I don't actually plan on re-installing, but it looks like it would work.
Either way, steam is dead to me now, so workarounds or not, they will see no more of my money
You are blaming the wrong party, blame the government for forcing Valve to do this, Valve isn't doing this because they want to.
I kinda disagree. Steam is being lazy in this.
Social media and other providers know if they ignore the problem enough people will get mad at the gov.
I don’t disagree that the gov/regulators have approached this half baked however the onus should be on the provider to put together a solution. They ain’t.