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In February 2026, Mojang has decided to implement mandatory age verification in the United Kingdom to access some features.{{Citation needed}} Although players still have access to play the game, they miss out on social features.{{Citation needed}} The big issue is players will now be locked out of the chat feature in the game which is essentially what keeps the online connection alive in the many servers players have access to.{{Citation needed}} In order to get this feature that has always been included automatically (regardless of age) UK residents must now verify their identity by using Yoti (a third-party service).{{Citation needed}} This is a huge blow to the Minecraft community as many of the games players are children.{{Citation needed}} Famous players such as TommyInnit (who's career took off due to his Minecraft streams and VODS later posted on YouTube) were under the age of 18 when they started to gain popularity.{{Citation needed}}<!-- Honestly maybe this line could be purged, seems to be more an appeal to reason than demonstrating a flaw with this --> Although these players had access to outside game voice chats with other players, many don't have access to the proper equipment required to do so, solely relying on the in-game chat. This mass majority of players in the UK will now have to verify their age and sell their data to a third-party service in order to get one of the most essential features in the game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kabra |first=Akshat |date=2026-02-22 |title=Age verification in Minecraft: Everything you need to know |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/age-verification-minecraft-everything-need-know |url-status=live |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=sportskeeda}}</ref><!-- This Article (Age verification in Minecraft: Everything you need to know) (citaion no.8)is good as I think it covers quite enough info for this section as it has some Influencer "tweets" cited there. So I think this section can be made around it, hopefully anyone who will work on this finds this helpful. P.S (I just added this article to the IA so if you are working on this please add the archived link to the citation Thanks) --><!-- Line needs to be purged; just a repeat of previous information --> | In February 2026, Mojang has decided to implement mandatory age verification in the United Kingdom to access some features.{{Citation needed}} Although players still have access to play the game, they miss out on social features.{{Citation needed}} The big issue is players will now be locked out of the chat feature in the game which is essentially what keeps the online connection alive in the many servers players have access to.{{Citation needed}} In order to get this feature that has always been included automatically (regardless of age) UK residents must now verify their identity by using Yoti (a third-party service).{{Citation needed}} This is a huge blow to the Minecraft community as many of the games players are children.{{Citation needed}} Famous players such as TommyInnit (who's career took off due to his Minecraft streams and VODS later posted on YouTube) were under the age of 18 when they started to gain popularity.{{Citation needed}}<!-- Honestly maybe this line could be purged, seems to be more an appeal to reason than demonstrating a flaw with this --> Although these players had access to outside game voice chats with other players, many don't have access to the proper equipment required to do so, solely relying on the in-game chat. This mass majority of players in the UK will now have to verify their age and sell their data to a third-party service in order to get one of the most essential features in the game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kabra |first=Akshat |date=2026-02-22 |title=Age verification in Minecraft: Everything you need to know |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/minecraft/age-verification-minecraft-everything-need-know |url-status=live |access-date=2022-02-28 |website=sportskeeda}}</ref><!-- This Article (Age verification in Minecraft: Everything you need to know) (citaion no.8)is good as I think it covers quite enough info for this section as it has some Influencer "tweets" cited there. So I think this section can be made around it, hopefully anyone who will work on this finds this helpful. P.S (I just added this article to the IA so if you are working on this please add the archived link to the citation Thanks) --><!-- Line needs to be purged; just a repeat of previous information --> | ||