Guild Wars 2

WoW has parental controls.
Do we have a similar control available in GW2 ?

Not that I’m aware of.

No. You have to police your/your child’s gameplay yourself or use other tools to help control how much time you spend online.

Yes as a matter of fact there is.

What you do, is when your child wants to play. You lean close to their ear, and scream “do your @#%$ chores!”.

Best parental control is the off switch on the router. In all honesty, the game wouldn’t have features for children given that it’s a 16+/Teen rated game. The most there is in the way of controls is a profanity filter which can be turned on and off in the options menu so even if you enable it, your kids could easily (and most likely would) disable it.

Tell your children to do their work first before allowing them to play anything….

Watch your children play whenever you notice them on, and back seat drive for three or more days. They should never want to play a game ever again

P.s. I’m just being silly since people took my answers

Kind of wondering – which parts of the game would you have to turn off for your children?
Or is this strictly about the chat and interacting with other players?

If they dont do what you tell them to, just suspend them indefinetly… I mean ground them.

Bellatrixa.3546:

Best parental control is the off switch on the router. In all honesty, the game wouldn’t have features for children given that it’s a 16+/Teen rated game. The most there is in the way of controls is a profanity filter which can be turned on and off in the options menu so even if you enable it, your kids could easily (and most likely would) disable it.

It’s rated 12+ in Europe and I was under the impression the US Teen rating implied a similar age but I’m not sure about other regions.

But usually parental controls can be customised to any age rating. For example the ones on consoles can require the user to enter a pin even for a 7+ game, or it could be only 18+ or anything in between.

I’m not sure what kind of parental controls GW2 could have though. I’m only familiar with the kind that restricts access to entire games/movies based on their age rating, and since this is just 1 game with 1 rating I don’t know what that would achieve.

You can’t really control what people see in chat (other than using the profanity filter and making sure they’re in appropriate guilds), and I can’t see that there would be any need to lock people out of specific areas of the game based on age.

I guess you could restrict who younger players could whisper or mail, but you could hardly block parties without blocking a lot of other content as well. Naturally, gem store purchases would be controlled somehow. There could also be less obvious controls, like a maximum amount of game time per week or set offline hours.

I don’t know that GW2 needs such features, but I can see where they might come in handy for a parent. Obviously, knowing what your kid is into online is the best protection, but other tools can help.

Danikat.8537:

It’s rated 12+ in Europe and I was under the impression the US Teen rating implied a similar age but I’m not sure about other regions.

In the US, we have E10+ for 10-12, then Teen for 13+. It can be a pretty hazy line between E10 and T—Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl were both Teen, for example, while Smash 4 is E10. Guild Wars is pretty good at keeping sexual content and language down, but the more realistic violence (rather than cartoon violence) and lots of alcohol got it a Teen rating here.

It’s not high into the Teen rating scale, I’d say, but it’s not really comparable to other E10 games here, like Pokkén Tournament or Ratchet & Clank.

Danikat.8537:

Bellatrixa.3546:

Best parental control is the off switch on the router. In all honesty, the game wouldn’t have features for children given that it’s a 16+/Teen rated game. The most there is in the way of controls is a profanity filter which can be turned on and off in the options menu so even if you enable it, your kids could easily (and most likely would) disable it.

It’s rated 12+ in Europe and I was under the impression the US Teen rating implied a similar age but I’m not sure about other regions.

This. An ESRB T rating is 13+. Mature is the next step up, and that’s 17+.

However, those are merely guidelines, and it’s up to the parent to consider their own child’s personality and development when looking into appropriate games for said child. I let my 8 year-old play GW2 because there’s honestly nothing in the game that I think is inappropriate for him to see.