Family Friendly Guilds?

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Ew. I’d forgotten about that. It was pretty gruesome. Heck, I avoided creating a warlock for years due to the really horrible overtones of being a warlock. Of course, I also refused to do Shadow powers for my priests. Which was crippling.

Once a mage, always a mage.

BUT still, assuming the kid is playing with an adult watching over their shoulder (at least figuratively speaking) they won’t be doing anything the adult considers a problem. And in the end, it IS up to the parent to decide what they consider “ok” for their child.

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Which is why we unfortunately have to have government agencies that intervene when a bad parent abuses that discretion. :wink:

But yeah, the entire Warlock theme gives me pause even as an adult.

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I started playing vanilla in Elementary school. I did fine and even remember raiding. I think WoW is what contributed to my high reading levels throughout school. I think there’s a lot that can be learned from the game so long as your parents teach you not to engage in a bad conversation.

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And so is the DK starter quests to kill all the innocent villagers (at least this is not in Vanilla haha). There is a small handful of content that we will avoid, but the vast majority of content, especially while just running around doing quests, has been just fine.

If I notice the kids getting uncomfortable/scared of something whatever it is, we move on to something else. This has never happened with WoW. And my kids can’t handle the start of the 5th Harry Potter movie. Rating is only PG for that one… go figure.

But just like when i am reading a great story to them with an age-inappropriate scene, I skip over it. It doesn’t mean we have to skip the entire book because of it. The rest of the story is still very much worth reading despite the few paragraphs we miss.

I realize this thread has somewhat turned into a ‘Should you play Warcraft with your children’, but it is a worthwhile tangent imo.

I think the key to it working for my family, is the fact that we are adventuring together. At the rate we would play (a couple of hours per week) we likely won’t even get out of Teldrasil in 6 months, we likely will be barley through Darkshore after a year. (My daughter loves Nelfs). So I don’t think I will have to worry so much about high level dungeons or gruesome warlock quests, and certainly not raids.

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Well, there are way, way better and cheaper alternatives to WoW if you are barely going to touch the content.

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I appreciate your concern for my children’s well-being, and my bank account.

I can assure you they are all fine.

I am going out on a limb here and assuming you do not have kids of your own. One day, if you have your own kids, my decision to play WoW with mine might make more sense.

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You may want to check out Random Encounter. :slight_smile:

We encourage families to play together, and we do have a Squire rank for children of our Members. We do expect that Members will properly supervise their children while they are playing. We are also rolling on a RP server.

My main guild back in vanilla had kids of members playing, and it was fine. We made sure that it was known that they were kids, and we had plenty of parents in the guild that made sure that no inappropriate shenanigans happened. It takes a village and all that. :slight_smile:

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Wow, this sounds exactly like what I was looking for, thank you for sharing =)

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They are out there indeed.

Ignore the naysayer in this post.

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Some 9 year olds could handle this game if the language filter is on and certain channels are left(general, trade).

I was younger than 9 when I tackled old school, hardcore RPGs like Final Fantasy 1 for Nintendo and Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System.

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Loved those games. Personally I will be looking for a family friendly guild when I start playing and I’m 45. I don’t mind the occasional swearing or dirty joke, but not looking for it to be a regular thing. Would rather listen to “dad” jokes and keep it clean for everyone.

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You really did not just go there, did you? Surely not because of a parent who would be playing a game with their children supervised with parental controls set and picking and choosing the appropriate content they allow their children to play.

I have a 9 year old son and I am very careful and definitely stricter than other parents I know when it comes to gaming, tv shows, movies, social media, etc. Most parents I know let their children have Facebook, play games rated T for teen, even M for mature. They watch tv shows and movies that I don’t let my son watch. The kids add random people they meet on Xbox as friends, etc. All those things I just mentioned, I don’t allow my son to do yet at 9 years old.

What is my point to this? I am very careful with what my son does regarding his age and I think you are blowing a parent who is going to play WoW with their children supervised way out of control. WoW is one of those games I am actually considering playing with my 9 year old. Of course all chat would be off at all times, he would be supervised and he would not be allowed to invite or group with random strangers, not at 9, but that’s just me. He would be playing only with me and people we know personally. There is certain content I would not let him do, like no Forsaken, no Hillsbrad Foothills horde side, definitely not the DK starter zone or anything like that. Much of the content in WoW is fine, with some things here and there that a parent of a younger child should maybe restrict the kid doing, at least in my opinion. I personally would not join a guild with my children with a group of random strangers, but to each their own.

Thankfully my son is cool with me not allowing him to play Fortnite yet or add random strangers on his Xbox, watch certain tv shows, movies, etc. We have talks and he understands my reasoning. The biggest challenge is all his friends that are allowed to do everything a late teenager would do pressuring me to allow him to do certain things and pressuring my son. But my son just tells them no, and means it, as do I.

But a parent knows their child, much more than some random stranger on the WoW forums knows their child. Back in Vanilla we had some younger people in our guild (teens) and most of them acted more mature than most of the adults.

The rated T for teen in WoW I think is primarily regarding the online interactions and there are ways to curb that so that doesn’t happen. Parental controls are for a reason.

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I’m stoked to hear you’re playing WoW with your kids. I’d be cautious about prejoining a guild with whole family. I’d suggest joining by yourself first to vet the environment.

Or, starting a guild yourself. That’s also a pretty great way to go.

As for kids playing in general, I’m getting my 7yo an account. Herbs aren’t going to farm themselves! /s

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Yes, that would be my first step, my joining the guild to see what it is like. And starting my own guild, or no guild would be a nice alternative.

I am sure there are other amazingly friendly and inclusive kids like mine out there and thought it would be cool if my kids could interact with them while we adventure our way through Azeroth.

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You’re clearly rolling a human paladin named “misterrogers” with a guild name of “neighborhood”, right?

Let us know what you end up doing, it’d be cool to see what you come up with.

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Likely not too far from he truth haha. We were running around the dwarf starting zone with my toon being Papadorf and the three of us looking for their mother. (My wife likes making toons, but that is about as far as she would go)

But, my daughter loves the night elves, so likely no paladin for me! Imagine her indignation that classic doesn’t have blood elves.

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I’ve had the opposite experience.

My daughter started playing Wow at 5 years old. She’s 13 now. She has always played with me, and our guild, which is R-rated most of the time, cools it when she is online. She was a main raid healer for our progression through Legion.

She is stoked for classic, and I’m pumped to play it with her.

YMMV.

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That is awesome!

My kids chased the cats around the B-elf starting area at age 5 lol.

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Sounds like my family too. My middle son was our off tank in wotlk, he was 10, my youngest was rerolling hunters and couldn’t read quests yet. I would suggest make your own guild or find a like minded family guild. Believe it or not there are plenty of players that want a more friendly atmosphere yet still play seriously. In my case our GM’s were Doctors, cruddy people got /gkicked so fast your head would spin. It was heaven. Today we have parental controls, which are nice. Before I would say something to the effect of, “I see you in trade, you lose your game” it worked lol. Have them type full sentences with correct spelling & punctuation while you’re at it, they will thank you when they’re in Highschool. Good luck :slight_smile:

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Something to think about. I know that an addon “Jamba” does it, and there may be others, but have something that copies all the whispers that the child gets sent, and sends them on to you. Jamba doesn’t do it, but you could probably also CC all messages that the child sends out, to you as well with a bit of tweaking.

Would make it easy to see if someone sends something inappropriate, immediately, and you don’t even have to tell your child.

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