World of Warcraft introduces time-limiting controls

Blizzard have introduced a new set of “parental controls” for World of Warcraft which allows account owners to generate a new parental-lock password to set times that their child/addicted-significant-other can and can’t log on to the game. From the parental control FAQ:

“When you reach the play scheduler, you will see the days of the week presented in one-hour blocks. Blocks in green denote when your account is accessible, while blocks in red note when the account is inaccessible. The schedule initially defaults to all green. To make certain hours inaccessible, simply click on the block you want to limit. This will change it from green to red and prevent anyone from logging in to the account during that time.”

Sneaky plan! Shifts the onus onto parents to take responsibility for their child’s gaming habits (instead of suing Blizzard when he does something stupid) and provides addicts with a control method, should they realise how much of their lives are taken up with the game and ask for help. Very handy! I’m more a proponent of the get-involved-with-your-kids-lives school of parenting when it comes to gaming child locks but watching someone else grind an MMORPG is even more tedious than doing it yourself (if such a thing is possible), so in this case I think it’s a good thing.

Found via Edge-Online.

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