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In compliance with local laws, Steam rolled out age verification in Australia two months ago. Controversially, it was based on whether you owned a credit card, which many Australians do not. Overnight, Australians stopped being able to see games that are rated R18+ in the Steam store, like Doom, if they didn't have a credit card linked to their account.

Just as suddenly, Steam support has now updated how age verification works for Australians. Adding a credit card to your account still works, but additionally: "Steam will automatically consider your account age verified if it is at least nine years old and has had a consistent email address or billing information."

If you've moved house in the last nine years and let Steam know about it then your billing information won't have been consistent, so I sure hope you haven't changed both your email and physical address in that time.

Valve notes that it is aware this solution…