Just curious, when others feel it is a good time to introduce their kids to games/mmos. Son just turned four, but is obviously not ready to play the game yet, but he has been playing games like Mario 64(well, pretty much all the old Mario games but 64 is his favorite) and dynasty warriors. Obviously, MMOs are a bit different due to online content, and I realize Ill have to filter his chat options when he gets to that point, but Ive not really seen anything too bad in the game if he sticks to whacking mobs in the wilds.

I personally look forward to the day he can play the game along side my brother and myself, but of you parents grooming the next generation of gamers, am I still like 2 or 3 years out?

Umm I'm not a parent but I started playing an MMO my fifth grade with silly things like runescape and Habbo hotel, but I was playing my N64, game boy and other consoles starting at age 3-4

might be prudent to wait till he knows or understands that some people like to be mean or hurt others for no good reason.

Even with chat tabs closed, there are plenty of ways to grief.

Ah the wild...

My son will turn one yo next month. And I intend to introduce him to Mario this week. I have the old SNES set up for this awesome moment.

Concerning MMOs, I'm really anxious to start to play with him, but I know it'll take a long while. I think that I'll wait for his time, when he start to show interest in MMO, I'll start to show him the more friendly-casual games before show him the hardcoe mmorpgs. But only when he starts to show interest on them.

Keep to the wii wii u 2bh

Teach your kid to play outside and get some exercise....thats the most important.

If it turns out later that the world outside is not for him, then he can decide to invest his time into gaming. Or maybe he will fit both worls into his life.

Seriously...isn't the world unhealthy enough?

The worse shape you are in, the worse it gets as you get older....

Gaming is an hobby, no different to other hobbies, you can't send children out side all day in this day and age.

Well, he is already signed up for t-ball and swim lessons for the summer, so its not like I'm encouraging him to hide in the basemant. It's more of a rainy day, or mommy wants to take a nap, kind of thing.

Go out with them & get some exercise yourself?

I used to let my grandson ride horses around the housing area in DAOC when he was about 5. When he was 6, he created a Necro and started playing a bit until someone reported him for kill stealing. He said "I was just trying to help". Poor baby. Now he's 15 and will be kicking butt with Dad, Grandma, and Grandpa in ESO!

To answer your question, he should not play by himself until he is old enough to understand the rules but he should be fine now as long as you are playing along side him.

Serious question?
I have 5 children and i never thought about that tbh. They love to Play Basketball, Soccer, Sandpit, Swing, slide, Trampolin and everything that can be played Outside!
Sometimes they take a sword and hit the trees and flowers, and if weather is bad they play some nintendo.
Theres so much to explore for Kids in the Real World

Lol, played D3 with him a bit. His idea of playing was to be in front and say where we are going(follow me daddy), and then run away during the fights leaving me to deal with the mobs.

Not a parent either, but there were no MMOs when I was a kid. Can look only at how my sister's kids turned out (all but one in college now), but she raised them much differently than I would have anyway.

Likely wouldn't introduce them to MMOs until high school, since think an MMO would otherwise be a major distraction. And even then, I'd require the kids to pay for them with money from a part-time job, much as I did for stuff I wanted at that age.

Very cute.

yeah and next thing you need to teach your children is how to farm, gather, craft and sell so he can make some gold when you are working

This one gets it.

This, totally this. I hope to play with descedents in the future too.

For people are saying "go outside and play mimimi". I grow up in an apartament, I barely spent much time outside and games were my best friend always. I have a gamer mom (she even finished games that I didnt like Desert Strike and Kirby Avalanche lol). I was happy and had everything I needed right there. Even nowdays I prefer to game all day long

Am I a creeper? No, I'm a healthy public functionary and I have a beatyfull family. So, stop trying to set up standart of how people should raise kids

do NOT let your son participate in pvp until he is old enough to deal with it from my experience at LEAST 10, the trauma that can be caused to a young child if they are exposed to pvp at an age below 10 can be VERY devastating and traumatizing, I strongly as a parent of 6 boys recommend against allowing your child to be exposed to anything pvp before this age.

you can start exposing your son to MMO's at the age of 4-5 but make sure you have all chat turned off except the chat between you and him and make sure its in a pve environment, this has been my experience with MMO's and raising 6 kids around them

I have a 12 year old in secondary school/high school who's mature for his age, after school he comes home and does his homework, sorts out his stuff for school the next day, gets changed and goes out to play with his neighbourhood friends for a couple of hours before dinner. Helps me cook sometimes which he loves doing. As for games, he loves single player games ranging from Minecraft and Lego games to Fifa and WoW. He was interested in ESO for a long time but now he's decided against it, simply because he doesn't think it's worth the money for him personally. He might play 2 hours of WoW in a week but it doesn't keep him interested enough to pay the box price and then subscription, more he plays it because it's there, he actually told me to spend the money I would have spent on him subscribing to ESO on a Marvel chess set subscription. He plays chess at school in the chess club and football training on Saturday and matches on Sundays depending on the weather and season. He also goes to a singing school on Mondays and does Karate during the week. If he was just sat on his PS or Xbox (he prefers his PC to both consoles) all day, every day I think I would have something to worry about but as he does so much other stuff as well as shows maturity in everything that he does and gets good grades and comments from his teachers, I worry less, in fact he has surprises me a great deal...I don't know which side he gets it from but I don't remember being so sensible at his age.

I wouldn't let him PVP for a while, there is a big difference in being able to understand running up to a mob and clicking the mouse to hit it, and understanding the constantly changing demands of pvp. Plus, if I let a young kid in the game, it would be handicapping my own team with population caps. I want to play with my son, but as I gamer I want to win too.

wow I would think it would be more important that your son be old enough to not be traumatized if he gets killed at a very young age rather than wether or not your team wins or loses...........

He already dies in mario and dynasty warriors, he gets that. At least here, he has an easy respawn system, where in other games he has to redo all his progress

I'm talking about super mario 3 on nes lol'd. Even backyardigans have more "sensory overload" things than Mario.

Do it the Silence of the Lambs way. Throw your kid in a hole and yell at him/her. "IT PLAYS THE GAME OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!"