Games consoles – parental controls?
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I’ve all but given up on parental controls.
Our XBox has 3 accounts: mine, my sons (set to PG or 12 or whatever it is), and a 2nd adult one.
The 2nd adult one is needed because of EA. You need an EA account to access some elements of all their games e.g. Volta in FIFA (which was the main change and therefore the main selling point) and you can’t have an EA account unless you are 13 (iirc). Try fudging the birthday for the EA account and it won’t work with a child’s XBox account because the dates don’t match (I assume - it definitely checks something).
He doesn’t know the passcode for the account so there is some control, and anything he downloads through Game Pass shows on my account too.
Overall it was the best solution I could think of.
Our XBox has 3 accounts: mine, my sons (set to PG or 12 or whatever it is), and a 2nd adult one.
The 2nd adult one is needed because of EA. You need an EA account to access some elements of all their games e.g. Volta in FIFA (which was the main change and therefore the main selling point) and you can’t have an EA account unless you are 13 (iirc). Try fudging the birthday for the EA account and it won’t work with a child’s XBox account because the dates don’t match (I assume - it definitely checks something).
He doesn’t know the passcode for the account so there is some control, and anything he downloads through Game Pass shows on my account too.
Overall it was the best solution I could think of.
Depends on what you want them to do. I've disabled the ability to spend real money without a password but most other stuff is open.
My lad generally just plays games via my account now as it was too tricky to manage so we work on trust. He knows the rules, no adding strangers is the main one. He generally turns off open voice chat himself anyway and the majority of games seem to filter vulgar text chat. I can overhear him when he plays and the laughter with his mates has been one of the highlights of the s
t show that the last year has been.
My lad generally just plays games via my account now as it was too tricky to manage so we work on trust. He knows the rules, no adding strangers is the main one. He generally turns off open voice chat himself anyway and the majority of games seem to filter vulgar text chat. I can overhear him when he plays and the laughter with his mates has been one of the highlights of the s
t show that the last year has been.Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff