It was recently suggested to me by a friend that I enable parental controls on my own account to track my playtime in World of Warcraft via the Gameplay report which gives a tally of mins and the start and end time of each game session. I did so via the support site / battle.net account site.
I had a lot of trouble with this due to the fact that, despite having the correct timezone selected, it was giving me wild times. Additionally, despite having “3rd party site sharing” enabled, it was causing issues with my logging and 3rd party site profiles (raider io).
I finally submitted a ticket to have parental controls removed from my account. And long story short, a GM had to remove parental controls 3 times from my account. Apprently I was turning them back on on my side unknowingly. It was only after the 3rd time that I was told “simply accessing the parental controls dashboard is enough to turn them back on” (I was doing so to check to make sure they were in-fact disabled).
Now, at least according to this WoW GM, there is a part of the support site that if I access it’ll auto re-enable parental controls on my account (which I don’t ever want enabled on my account again…). It was told to me that this is intended to ensure parents aren’t locked out. But seems annoying for an account that put these restrictions on self imposed.
Additionally, there needs to be a way to enable these game play reports outside of parental controls (while wildly wrong session times, the total mins played was helpful!). A GM suggested I used the in-game ‘/played’ command - which doesn’t do the same thing as the gameplay report. A seperate GM suggested using third-party addons to mimic the gameplay report without parental controls. But seems odd to me that this feature can’t be implemented without parental controls.