Age Verification Feedback

Hey Team! Lately we are seeing more worlds add in "age checking" at the entrances of worlds (even with the option for AV only instances available). It would be very useful if world creators had access to call on AV through Udon to help groups run their lobbies a bit more smoothly and help provide them that extra level of security. Being able to access AV through Udon, lets world creators do some of the following as example: The option for groups to auto allow AV users into the world, while stopping non AV users at the door to manually check. You could provide AV users with an icon above their head. (With a toggle hopefully). Let AV users toggle on game modes that may be more targeted towards 18+ users. Restrict certain area's of a world. Restrict users from entering a world which main theme is adult/"NSFW"/ or not suitable for below -18. ( 'Age Gating' should cover this already, but at the moment you don't need to prove ID when making your VRChat account, so this would solidify it) Automated content adjustments for different age groups -18 & +18 instead of blocking younger users fully or non-verified, worlds could dynamically adjust gameplay, visuals & mechanics. Helpful in overall moderation tools for admins/groups. Enhanced trust for community worlds and create a more trustworthy environment. Improves the reputation of VRChat as a 'safer' social platform. I am sure there are many other examples/features that world creators can add that allows groups to run their lobbies more smoothly and safely, these were just a handful of ideas submitted by the community. Thanks!

Per the updated FAQ for the announcement of Age Verification, I would like to suggest a hard limit of at least 1 or at most 2 alts who are eligible for the same age verification. People may have alts for various reasons, some being that they may not want people who know their main VRC account name (especially if that name exists outside of VRC on other platforms) and may not want to engage with the more hardcore gated content (cough18+STUFFcough) for fear of other users maliciously looking them up and then harassing them on other platforms or even irl. I realize that may be an extreme example, but I can imagine I am not the only one who has their VRC name as their other socials and tries to keep it as professional as possible especially those that are creators. And while you could just say... "Well. Then just verify your alt account." ...and I could just do that, but what if in doing so I lock my main account off from my favorite worlds and or avatars should those world/avatar creators put their creations behind Age Verification gates. I apologize in advance if this was hard to follow, I'm not the best at articulating my words, so I hope this made some sense... I would just greatly appreciate being able to keep my main and an alt with the same amount of access and not feel like I have a baby gate in my way on one or the other despite being a fully grown adult. -_-

Compre otra vez el vrchat plus para que me den la verificacion de edad y con este seran 2 meses el primer mes no me lo dieron figura que tengo la verificacion en proceso pero ya a pasado 3 meses desde ese mes alguno sabe como contactar con soporte y eso. I bought VRChat Plus again so they could give me age verification and with this one it will be 2 months. The first month they didn't give it to me. It appears that I have the verification in process but it's been 3 months since that month. Does anyone know how to contact support and such?

There has been a VERY alarming change recently that Exposes users for their Verification status on the open beta. Explaination of problem: Once the user completes ID Verification, 18+ or <18, Their profile will now earn a Tiny checkmark next to the shield on their rank, informing other users of that users completion in ID Verification, Currently this is NOT able to be disabled This came almost completly unannounced, Only users within the community leaders discord (maybe others, im Unaware) were aware before it happened (Even tho we advised that this shouldn't be an option at all Users are still able to hide and show their badge, Now this can create a multitude of problems. 1: Accidental harassment: A Friend I've known for a week was hiding their badge, Which got me Hyper alerted to when I saw they had a checkmark, I knew they were over the age, but I saw the checkmark and I freaked out on them getting way to in their face because of my expressive concern of what their Real age was due to the checkmark (In the open beta, Age verified is removed, Only none and 18+ are applicable options now.) 2: Age verification was released to help seperate adults from minors, Now VRChat appear to be potentially marking it as a "Safety" feature. Problems: This checkmark allows users to identify people who have ID Verified and expose potentially them by calling the user out for hiding their own age (badge) to hangout with younger audiences to chill or potentially worse adult faking their age for any reason of personal gain, which is Extremely Alarming behaviour. VRChat patch notes for the open beta: "The Trust Shield icon on user profiles and nameplates will now show a checkmark for all users who have undergone age verification." ALL users are now subject to this change/checkmark. Now I personally Do not understand the reasons for Minors to beable to age verify at all, One thought that comes to mind are minor content creators (tiktok), The checkmark aids that, Yes that is the real xyz content creator to help users see that its not some imposter, This should NOT be marketed as the same system as Age verification for Adult/Minor seperation My biggest conflict In asking people about this topic, Why was this change made, It doesn't make sence when the feature was released as a Offering to adults to help improve communitys and build apon a Much stronger security from minors (Granted ID verification is not perfect, NO system is non-bypassable, errors happen). Lots of feedback I got from asking randoms in publics and friends, is that Users Should NOT be allowed to hide their verification badge Regardless of status if this checkmark were to stay for the future of VRChat, It can let anyone easily Identify someone who is either underage, or potentially hiding their age (leading to much worse). If users wish to hide their badge, I don't believe VRChat should restrict that (my personal believe) as it is a choice of freedom, VRChat has excelled in giving users the freedom to do and enjoy this game as they want. (Please don't change that for us, we all love you at heart) A direct quote from Tupper also mentioning this same topic within the Community leaders discord when directly asked about this topic (quote shortened): "The ability to control what information about you is shown to others might be considered a core value of VRChat in our "psuedonymity" value." A large slice of the users I got feedback from would like the 18+ badge to be forcfully enabled as this isn't a "feature" this is a SAFETY feature which is MASSIVLY more important then having freedom of choice, We all want safety from minors when enjoying the things we love most. My personal view: I DO NOT Regardless of personal believe believe ANY user should be allowed to hide their badge to hidden or changed status, If VRChat would like to remain giving users this option , Make the checkmark status Match that of the badge's status. Do NOT Split the system up as it was founded from ID Verification, Not as a way to improve trust, If VRChat has ideas in the future to change or add more ways to verify, Do it with more push towards the community before commiting. This open beta is beta for a reason, to test features and help VRChat expand and improve, This change from the community side looks Really weird and very unexpected, With all respect of my heart and others, This change shouldn't be implemented at any cause, Maybe in the future, another open beta when ID Verification is MUCH more set in stone, Right now this is a very alarming change and should not be finalized at any cost for the protection of minors and users alone. If at any point during this post I repeated myself, I do apologize, I wrote this under Very heavy mental stress and hope my points have come across clear and valid wording for everyone to understand

Age Verification Hello, I'm here with the following question: I've noticed for some time that there are several document options for age verification, and one of them is the voter ID card (which I temporarily don't have). I came with the following question: Will there be another document option besides the one I mentioned above? Regards, and I hope for a prompt response.

The automated system Persona uses fails to identify any form of ID I provide. Despite using every form of ID that’s available to me and trying it under different lighting conditions I get the same result. This system seems to have no way of falling back on some other form of age verification. The extent of customer support I’ve gotten on this subject so far is being told to try again. Are there plans to provide alternative methods of age verification so that people don’t get unfairly excluded through no fault of their own?

I would love the ability to add the age verification, maybe a symbol on my nameplate. So when entering 18+ instances. I can quickly show my verification. Or being able to quickly see someone is of age without digging through a menu.

So now, not only birthday but other (not named) data will be sent to VRChat, but extra. I assume it is real full name and/or serial number of the paper and/or issuer of the paper . Huh? Now instead of trust one subject (Persona), we have to trust two subjects (VRChat and Persona) and communication channels between them. You might write more paragraphs on Ask FAQ about how secure hashes is, but with this new system **the surface of attack is much much larger**. Now it might be almost impossible to steal or leak stored data, but theoretically easier to steal or leak the data during the process. Sorry guys, but security in VRChat is not what you can brave of. In other aspects of VRChat you guys shown how bad at security are: assume all client are trusted (which is the reason why malicious clients exists), trust other's client's data without sanitizing sent (ex. crashes through vrcobjectsync, I mentioned this in prev dev update), etc etc It must be an enormous amount of trust to assume you will treat the data sent by Persona well. I was OK to verify myself on previous system (If it's available in my place lol), but now I doubt.

I’d like to propose an expansion of the age-gating feature to include other instance types beyond group instances. Not everyone has access to a group they can host events through, nor do some users typically host 18+ events in group instances; these events are usually held in private instances, such as Invite+. Allowing anyone to create an age-gated instance would potentially better serve the community, especially adults who prefer to interact with others in their general age group without needing to rely on group instances.

Make it a have an optional {pay only for age verification} button. That or make it clear how a person can make a one time payment without worrying about renewal charges, like I would for paying for VRC+ right now.