why can minors play this game, freaks me out

[silmarilen]

I've had a similar situation, was talking to someone about general ingame stuff, as we were both hunters, going after rare pets and such. one day this person disappears for a while, they come back like a month later, told me that their mother yelled at them for talking to someone, so i asked how old they were, they were 11. Needless to say my attitude towards them changed instantly, thought about every word i said to clean it up, because hell you dont want to give anyone the wrong idea.

thats why i dont like telling eachother your age, you suddenly look at them differently but they are still the same person.

[Gilian]

I would never let my 12 year old kids play multiplayer games. Unless you can cut communication with other people. Very unappropiate. If you hear what's being said on xbox live in for example CoD lobbies :P. Same in WoW.

[Deleted]

c) Also, not seeing the big social deal besides tiresome cultural taboos. 12 year olds are fairly well-developed intellectually. They're well within competition for adults in terms of ability to process, think, understand... the only real difference between 12 and 20 is life experience refining the personality. It's not like the difference between like, 5 years old and 18 years old, where there's actual cognitive development still incomplete and forming in the younger child. By 12 you're pretty well-formed. Also, I meet plenty of 20-30 year olds who are significantly dumber and more immature than 12-15 year olds I meet and play with.

Well this kind of reasoning should set some alarm bells ringing.

[Gilian]

thats why i dont like telling eachother your age, you suddenly look at them differently but they are still the same person.

What's so wrong with that? It's not very cool when you talk to someone thinking he is your age (28 for example) and it turns out it's a 12 year old while you were telling this person how you pleased your girlfriend last night or whatever.

[Synstir]

One reason my guild is 21+, always has been, always will be.

I am wondering how you'll know if one of your 21's isn't 12?
Do you use some kind of check for that? Is there a check?

[Gilian]

So because you're hitting on online chicks, you don't want this game to be rated Teen? Lol.

You do know that adults sometimes make jokes that are not really appropiate for an 12 year old right?

[zshikara]

I actually had a guy get on me for being nice once. It was a random pug and the druid tank must've had a bad day or something cause he started yelling (read: typing in all caps) at one of the dps for buttpulling a group he was trying to skip. Me and the ret pally started telling the druid to be nice, and its not like he did it on purpose. The druid started talking down to us and after we wouldn't cave in and kept being nice he put us on ignore. All in all I enjoyed the experience. heh, some people are just bad through and through.

I've been in several guilds who require 18+ as a sign of membership. Once you're over that age by a bit its easy to tell if someone is underage or not. And physical age is less important than mental age. The numbers can be completely different. We've had 15 and 16 year olds in the guild occasionally and they were always allowed to stay because they acted like adults. Basically requiring a guild to be 18+ just means that you have to act mature and stuff like that.

I, personally, am 28, and have been playing this game since 2007. I was born when the president was Ronald Regan. I definitely am glad MMO's didn't exist. . .(well they did, but I didn't play them before wow). . .when I was in school. I probably would have made worse grades because of it.

[Buxton McGraff]

You won't have to worry unless you're sending pornographic images, transmitting sexually suggestive images/videos over the internet, or meeting up in real life to perform sexual acts.

[jahasafrat]

As a rule of thumb, I never chat up somebody I've never met in real life. Prevents a whole lot of stress, trouble, and unpleasant surprises.

[DechCJC]

Have you tried not being a creeper? Most people don't enjoy hearing disgusting sexual comments you know. Shouldn't matter what age they are.

I am the 5%, and I am proud

[Deleted]

Always find it amusing with guild that saying we are "18+" or "21+" or what ever.
I think people should be judged by how they behave, not by their age.
I was Guild Master for a rather big guild (150+) for over seven years and I have met people over 30 behave like 8 year olds, and 11 year old kids behave very mature.

We have always had a "If you cant behave, you cant stay" policy. Age, color, sex or shoe size shouldnt matter. If you cant behave as an adult, then you are history.

And on a side note. One of my best friend has a son, that was 13 years old at the time, and managed to join a "20+" guild, and even become a CL. They still dont know..

[Dravelar]

Kids today won't be traumatized by sex comments or anything like that,they probaly learned it on the internet a long time ago

[Deleted]

So... OP... you got the game to hit on girls? Because if not, it shouldn't matter that said girl was 12. So what, you think that she hasn't heard adult like jokes until now? You don't know kids these days then.

But if the answer is yes... maybe you should rethink your strategy.

[Deleted]

i never really cared what i said in chats, thats mainly cause 99% of what i post couldnt "scar" these childeren anyway and the 1% i do say only scars them as much as their non-online life would do.
people are just too oversenitive about these things.

also about people hitting on others through chat im like wut? why would you do such a thing, you dnt know a thing about them and base it around their char model.
i mean okay if you know the others age and you talk through some voice chat. but beside that why would you do such a thing o.O?

[Deleted]

Why not? They make this game more interesting and always manage to humour me was it on purpose or not. However I'd rather not play competitive PvP or high end PvE with young people, there are exceptions though, but in general. Not that I have anything particular against them, let's just say that they can be a little...unstable sometimes.

[velde046]

Play Xbox Live and you'll hear 5 year olds throw slurs at you like dodgeballs, and most of those games are rated Mature. It's just one of those things, that's why most games state that your game experience can change online. I could be playing Barbie's Adventure Online and someone would probably start swearing at me for not picking up the coins.

Don't even want to make a smart comment about it, but would appreciate it if you'd change your tagline. It shows poor taste and also shows unneeded aggression towards the casual playerbase.

[Idoru]

You do know that adults sometimes make jokes that are not really appropiate for an 12 year old right?

You do know that the game (at least where I play) is rated T for Teen, right?

Anyway OP, blame the parents for letting their minors play, nothing Blizzard can do about it.

[Banzhe]

ok so there is a person who in my guild I surmised was a girl and we got to talking,

anyway somehow we got on to ages and she tells me she is 12.... i'm in my 30's



so glad I didn't say anything inappropriate, even as a joke which I can do since there's also some people in my guild who are older than me.

I don't want chris hansen knocking on my door.

I'm scared to even be friendly anymore to anyone in game, suppose to be a teen game.

I don't understand your view, what difference does it make if you made a joke or not?

This is a game that's rated 13+, a lot of players are sadly much younger then that.., but get real, we're way past 1950, and if people want to stay completely ignorant to the fact that the internet have no age difference, then they should stay off the internet.

Same for any parents reading this, if you want your children to be complete unexposed to what might happen on line, keep them off the internet or places where "inappropriate" jokes etc might occur, don't go all Martha Steward on this subject, just be realistic.

On line you can be friends with everyone.., if you find you've got something you both find interesting or share a passion for, who honestly gives a flying chipmunk what age they are irl.

[Garkanh]

well... :/ it amazes me more that people 30+ plays than 13- to be hornest. i'm 19 and have been playing since i was 14 myself.

but i do agree, i'm pretty annoyed by the 14 years old kids in my guild myself

[Deleted]

ok so there is a person who in my guild I surmised was a girl and we got to talking,

anyway somehow we got on to ages and she tells me she is 12.... i'm in my 30's



so glad I didn't say anything inappropriate, even as a joke which I can do since there's also some people in my guild who are older than me.

I don't want chris hansen knocking on my door.

I'm scared to even be friendly anymore to anyone in game, suppose to be a teen game.

dude have you even realized the crazy shit thats on tv every time of the day ?
no the scary thing is not you making an inapropriate joke....the scary thing is that there is nothing you could have said that she/he hasnt heard already...(with the exception of some really messed up stuff )
that being said i do understand what you are trying to say. just ask for age before the discussion becomes friendly..