HoYoverse has announced that all US Genshin Impact players will soon be required to verify their age if they wish to continue playing the gacha action RPG.
Per an announcement on its official website, HoYoverse will require you to go through its age verification process to play Genshin Impact. The process will be rolled out to everyone across the US by May 20th.
You'll need to provide your age information by July 18th. Failure to do so will, according to HoYoverse, result in account suspension and "in-game friends and chat records" being deleted, as well as "no further notifications", since you won't be able to access your account anymore.
What's more, if you don't verify your age by July 20th next year, your HoYoverse account's personal information "will be deleted permanently", so naturally, that's a fate you'll want to avoid.
This requirement likely comes as a result of a decision made by the FTC back in January, wherein the commission found that HoYoverse "violated a children's privacy law and deceived children and other users" about in-game transaction costs and rare prizes in Genshin Impact's gacha system.
The decision required HoYoverse to cease selling "loot boxes"...
