What are everyone's plans if the EU KIDS Act goes through?
The EU KIDS Act proposal dropped a couple of weeks ago, and one of the things it explicitly covers is online games, including providers outside the EU if they're offering the game to EU users.
From what I can tell, this could eventually mean age-assurance requirements, child-safety defaults, parental controls, restrictions around player contact, etc. It also doesn't appear to have an obvious exemption for tiny hobby games/MUDs. It's still just a proposal and could change a lot before becoming law, but the current language seems broad enough that MUDs would be caught by it.
So I'm curious what other admins/devs are thinking.
Would you implement whatever age verification/safety infrastructure ends up being required? Make the game 18+ and verify EU players? Block EU connections entirely? Wait and hope there ends up being some sane exemption for small noncommercial projects?
I'm firmly in the "don't touch anything until we see the final law" camp, but I hadn't really expected running a tiny text game to potentially require an EU regulatory compliance strategy.