Will you let your kids play wow?

[Jsegal]

Of course! I started playing when I was 10, and world of Warcraft certainly influenced who I'd become as a teenager and who I've become as an adult. I wouldn't force it on them, but if they have interest; power to them. What's a better family activity than world quests or carrying my boy through m+? If they did I wouldn't let them make the mistake that I did, and if they wanted to play wow they'd be forced to play a sport to make sure they stay fit, because one day I don't want them to wake up and think I'm a fat piece of shit, I'll never get laid. As long as they look the part of a jock, play away!

[MooCowCat]

no way will i put my kids on computers or consoles. Games make people lazy and i know best. i got injured and got hooked like no other. I watch people use computers and consoles like they are baby sitters. It turns into a habit, and should be considered a horrible habit at best. To me it is no different than being a pot head and having weed around your kid. you are a walking billboard for promoting bad habits for a child.

[shonist]

i will let them play whatever they want to play.

[Sam the Wiser]

I won't even let my kitten witness what Blizzard has done to, WoW.

[Xenyatta]

My kids play with tablets and on rainy days they'll play on their Xbox but my oldest is 8 and he's asked if he can play but I want him to be older before he jumps into a time sink of a game like this.

[Mikah]

I tried to get my son interested (he's 12), but he got bored of leveling after a while. I think he has a lvl22 hunter, and a lvl63 DK, so that's probably a dozen hours of playtime on each.

It would have been nice to play with him once in a while, but I think the grinding is just too much. Another factor, is that it is too expensive to play, so most of his friends are not playing WoW. Since he rarely plays alone (he Skype with his friends while playing), they need to find games they can all play without their parents forking $120 a year.

He'd rather play WoT, Minecraft, Paladin or Battlefield, and a bunch of F2P MMOs.

Mind you, it drives me nuts to clean up the hard drive of all the crap games he downloads...

[McNeil]

I would probably not, but thats mostly because of this toxic self-entitlement community that the game is currently breeding. But I can't tell what kind of games my future kid would prefer so this is all just guessing. Also I might be just cheap enough to pay his sub.

[A dot Ham]

I understand most players are teenagers but this game is 13 years old now. Consider there are 2-3 more expansions left in wow (4-6 more years). You can have teenager kids approaching wow playing age.
As a parent, will you let your kids play wow?

edit:
If there are parent players (weird combination tbh) browsing this thread, are your kids showing any interests in wow? Bliz may be doing everything they can to advertising hearthstone to new generation but it should know wow's like cigarettes, most of us are attached for life!

There are so many baseless claims in one question/post I don't even know where to begin.

You make a lot of assumptions and assertions that just aren't true.

Anecdotal as it may be:

My wife works at a high school and I work at a college and we have 2 kids. I can confidently say that young kids... (the majority of them) AREN'T playing WoW, not like it was when I started playing. When I started playing WoW LAN parties still existed (fuck dial-up btw) my brother came from a small school and I remember everyone over in our Garage working on "Undying" achievement in early WotLK.

Back then if you played WoW you could make RL friends because it was this guilty pleasure that EVERYONE was engaged in.

Now it has gone back to the stigma of the mmos of old... where you don't talk about it. You play it... you enjoy it... but you don't openly tell people about it. Its kind of like porn.

But bottom line is they aren't playing it. This idea that kids are ruining WoW is ridiculous... and its fabricated by the old fucks (like me) who just can't deal with change. The difference is I recognize its the old fucks. The % of people that can prove they are/were here during vanilla continues to rise... why? Because the veterans are the only ones that stick around. They (myself included don't get triggered) are the ones too addicted to make a move to and stick with anything else.
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Perhaps a good place to start would be to make a poll asking people's age to get an idea of how many "kids" are actually playing vs the amount of adults actively playing. I think you're in for an awakening.
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To answer your question though, yes. I let my 4 year old create a hunter. We played for about an hour just killing shit and casually completing quests. Then my wife came in and put the kibosh on the whole thing. She wasn't comfortable killing... to which I responded we're only killing animals... oh shit. Then I got to thinking about the demons and trying to explain the more adult themes of future expansions and other classes that didn't have a fun cuddly pet. Maybe later amigo. *Hands over man card*

[Deleted]

I understand most players are teenagers but this game is 13 years old now. Consider there are 2-3 more expansions left in wow (4-6 more years). You can have teenager kids approaching wow playing age.
As a parent, will you let your kids play wow?

edit:
If there are parent players (weird combination tbh) browsing this thread, are your kids showing any interests in wow? Bliz may be doing everything they can to advertising hearthstone to new generation but it should know wow's like cigarettes, most of us are attached for life!

They probably would see this thread before their parent notices. I have no kids but I surely know what over-protecting them can cause. So try a professional for these questions - since the subject ain't your kids but you as parent.

[Dead Moose Fandango]

Lolno
Opiod addiction is a Fucking horrific process.

Sooooo is an addiction to an MMO.

[Kaizun]

My wife and I both play WoW- her casually, me as a semi-casual raid leader. Our son has been interested in WoW since he was old enough to understand what it was. We waited until he was about 13 before we let him play. Despite his eagerness and the build up of waiting, he got bored with it pretty quickly. He has raided with me in an alt run, and leveled a few characters both on his own and with me, but in the end, it doesn't keep him interested and he doesn't keep up with the subscription.

[Aeula]

No. Because they'll never be born.

[Adoxe]

If WoW is still relevant when/if I have kids, yes. No reason not to, it's only dangerous if you let it be otherwise it's an incredible experience that I would want them to see for themselves.

[aarro]

Anybody that says no is just a bad parent. It should be their choice what computer games they want to play!

[Lochton]

If she wanted to, yes. Though, would maybe limit the chat a bit.

[Daevied]

What is amazing is the ppl saying that wow is expensive and heroin is cheaper. Like, really? cant afford 15$ a month?

[Kazgrel]

No kids here, and even if I did have one starting right this moment, by the time they would be old enough to really grasp WoW, the game would be damn near 25 years old by then...course, that doesn't stop folks now from introducing their kids to NES era games and such.

Funny enough, I would probably have a console at home if I had little ones around. Let them cut their teeth there (not literally, mind you), then later on, introduce them to the fun of PC gaming.

[Dead Moose Fandango]

Addiction to female heroes is indeed a serious problem.

Or did you mean heroin?

Clearly, I meant female heroes. I blame Jaina.

[GKLeatherCraft]

My 6year old plays WoW, Overwatch, and rarely HotS, I don't see any reason to stop him, He enjoys it and he also learns that some people are tards that need to be ignored:P

[Mlz]

My 6year old plays WoW, Overwatch, and rarely HotS, I don't see any reason to stop him, He enjoys it and he also learns that some people are tards that need to be ignored:P

Hope to god he doesn't do any group content and only plays against AI.