Originally posted by: Leros
Are 10 year olds old enough to play MMORPGS? I ask because my 11 year old sister has been wanting to play guild wars and I keep telling her she isn't old enough.
Are 10 year olds old enough to play MMORPGS? I ask because my 11 year old sister has been wanting to play guild wars and I keep telling her she isn't old enough.
Originally posted by: fivetiger
Are 10 year olds old enough to play MMORPGS? I ask because my 11 year old sister has been wanting to play guild wars and I keep telling her she isn't old enough.
Content-wise they are fine for kids. In WoW especially, the violence is pretty cartoony and no more offensive than Tom-and-Jerry, for example.
HOWEVER....I would seriously suggest your parents limit her playing time and encourage her to set smaller goals in the game. 10-year olds should be getting exercise (while all their joints still work ), NOT worrying about whether they have Tier 2 or 3 armor.
But since it takes an hour just to get where you're going in these games, it's best that they allow her a block of time per week, say 10 hours/week, distributed as she pleases.
Originally posted by: QueBert
Originally posted by: fivetiger
Are 10 year olds old enough to play MMORPGS? I ask because my 11 year old sister has been wanting to play guild wars and I keep telling her she isn't old enough.
Content-wise they are fine for kids. In WoW especially, the violence is pretty cartoony and no more offensive than Tom-and-Jerry, for example.
HOWEVER....I would seriously suggest your parents limit her playing time and encourage her to set smaller goals in the game. 10-year olds should be getting exercise (while all their joints still work ), NOT worrying about whether they have Tier 2 or 3 armor.
But since it takes an hour just to get where you're going in these games, it's best that they allow her a block of time per week, say 10 hours/week, distributed as she pleases.
I'll agree on the violence part it's mostly tame, but there are some idiots on there, and with any MMORPG comes some sort of Teamspeak. I wouldn't exactly want my 10 year old to interact with some foul mouthed immature 20 year old who does nothing but cuss. Voice chatting with these people would probably be a very scary experience for most 10 year olds
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
Originally posted by: VashHT
Originally posted by: snapper316
so you are another one of those who never played warcraft RTS but chose to flood the WoW world...great.
your son probably only asked for "Warcraft"
oh and can i buy your frozen throne CD key. it'd be fun online.
It doesn't seem like Blizzard really cares about the warcraft story anymore though. They're basically destroying their own lore to make more money off of WoW, I mean come on gnomes? They are possibly the most stupid gaming creation ever, and they were never in any real warcraft game. I have to wonder why people would even wanna play WoW without playing warcraft though. Isn't a big part of MMORPG's questiong throught he story, and wouldn't that be muchmroe fun if you were actually familiar with the universe. I mean little cool things like finding where grom hellscream fought mannaroth is sweet playing a game like WoW, but I don't think most of the people that play or even Blizzard care anymore. I mean people that play like 5 hours a day don't even know who doomhammer is. Anyway just a small little rant, I don't understand how people could be obsessed with a game they don't even know the history of.
How are 10 year old kids even supposed to know there is a history to this game? I should have made him play all the older Elder Scrolls games before Oblivion huh? Feel bad for all those console gamers that only get to play Oblivion. :roll:
He plays it with his friends and enjoys it. Big deal.
Originally posted by: skace
Excellent, excellent SP game. WC3 and TFT contain some of Blizzard's best FMVs, a great plot, and fun gameplay. The MP goes from your standard RTS fare to stuff like DOTA and Tower Defense. As much as it sucks that you got the wrong product, it's one you should really have anyways .