Is this game safe for kids?

[ironhands]

In all honesty, I couldn't even begin to suggest what age range is appropriate for children to play a game or watch a movie, when they're young the mature at very different rates, one 12 year old might be a lot more mature than another, so really, it has to be up to the parent to decide for themselves what is best, especially since they are the ones trying to impart their values on the child. Nobody can, or should, tell you how to raise your children, most of these ratings basically say "expect this, but it's your call".

I remember playing wolfenstein 3d when i was 11. There was blood, killing people, no swearing. 20 years later I'm more or less a functional member of society

[Rzep]

There are way to many good game that are completetly ok for kids that age so I don't see why you would let him play not only online games but violent online games. Even if an online game does not contain violence or bad language, it will have a bad community. There will be people swearing, insulting others, making fun of race/sexual orientation/religious beliefs, joking about Hitler, pedophillia and just about everything else.

[Migrayne]

As a father who's 7 year old likes to sit with me to play games, their is no way I'd let him play defiance alone. Its rated mature for a reason. I lime that its rated this way. Its a game for me and other adults and young adults. Its not for kids.

When he comes into my gaming room. I turn the sound off or put sounds to my headset.

Kids that young don't need to play all the shooters out today. They should be playing Mario bros and such.

[ZEBUCITY]

My husband and I met online, so we are a pretty gaming heavy family. I'm not letting my son play this atm only because of the language in the quests. I let him make a char and dabble with the beta while I was here but I don't think i'd let em get far enough into where they drop f-bomb n stuff.

There is blood when you kill and NPC, and it's pretty apparent they are hurt, so might be much for young kiddo's. My oldest is 10 and plays CoD with all his friends, so the blood and hurt didn't bother me. Both my kids asked me to get them a console copy of the game. I'm still holding out on that personally for the language reasons mentioned. They can stick to killin zombies in CoD or BF3 for shooting atm I think.

Last time I played zombies there was a lot of swears.

[Bud]

If my girlfriend and I had spawned any minions, I wouldn't let them play Defiance.

It wouldn't be for the reason of explicit language either. Well, Ok... Maybe the spoken words would get a frown from me but chat? Eh, words are meaningless to a 3 year old, they can't read but shootin' someone in the head and seein' the pink mist definitely desensitizes the lil' ones. I wouldn't want my minion exposed to that, until I was satisfied they were intelligent enough to understand that it's just pixels.


I applaud the OP though, I know of a bad parent that smokes in the house, in front of their kids and lets 'em watch True Blood and Game of Thrones. These are the kids that become crack heads.
There aren't a lot of parents out there, that care enough to limit what their children get exposed to and again, you deserve a pat on the back for carin'.

[Deathsdoll]

What kind of parent are you that you have to ask that in a forum, is no one home up there OMG just cuz you can make them don't mean everyone should. Your right up there with the guy who let his 4 year old hold and shoot off a gun at a gun show (Kid blow his head off) This is just sad

[mimneotic]

Is this game safe for kids?

Lol. Shtako, no. It's not. Blood and shtako errywhere.

[Kane]

well it;s not as much the game as the community, gw2 has a nice community of players and the nature of the game makes it so that it is pretty child friendly, this game tho, the nature and the mechanic of it might be another thing, for example during beta on several occasions i have witnessed raging during an arkfall with alot of profanity thrown at players that killed the small bugs, u could turn profanity filter on but really there are ways a player could throw insults at you without having to swear, and imo a young person would suffer some minor trauma from those if they are the target of such verbal attacks.
I would not recommend this game for children not because they can't handle the gore or the game itself but because the interaction with other players might make them a bit anti social if they have too many negative interactions.

[WarMachine]

I applaud the OP though, I know of a bad parent that smokes in the house, in front of their kids and lets 'em watch True Blood and Game of Thrones. These are the kids that become crack heads.
There aren't a lot of parents out there, that care enough to limit what their children get exposed to and again, you deserve a pat on the back for carin'.

That's a horrible generalization. I grew up in the 80's (everyone smoked in front of there children, even at some workplaces it was allowed) My parental guardian was Canadian, didn't believe in curse words (What exactly is a curse word? Just a word that people don't like others to say.) and was open about sex and nudity from the age of 6. By age 10 I was watching R rated movies, but always had to talk to my guardian about the movie when I was done (Made sure I understood it, and knew it was just a movie).

I never took Crack or any other drug (except cannabis), never seen the inside of a jail or brig, and retired a decorated Veteran happily married, and have two degrees from universities; one in Medical, and one in Media Animation. Its not what the parent lets the kids do, its how its presented to children, and how mature the child is when it is presented to them. And every child is different.

IMHO, limiting your child's exposure hurts them, more then helps them. The openness I experienced as a child I believe helped me and guided me in my medical degree, and led me down a good path in life.

[Dixa]

plenty of voiced-over F-bombs during the beta.

plus the fact that you can't control internet a-holes.

mmo's are a teen+ genre unless tightly controlled like wizard101