World of Warcraft - Please explain

[elsiegee40]

A very good point HodgeHi

 

In my role as e-Safety trainer at school... I have been scaring the living daylights out of adults with this little nugget of information. My message to adults is that net-nanny software is all very well, but it only covers a PC. I've had several coming up to me afterwards saying "I didn't realise..."

 

What about the iPod and the xBox and the Wii and the PS3 and the mobile phone and the... ?

[pete]

THERE ARE NO TOILET BREAKS IN GATECAMPING

 

 

There's quite a few NC carrier pilots who learned that the hard way.

 

Wonder if goons still hold the station where all my stuff is.

[Trapper]

I would agree that it is the social interaction that makes this game such a large no-no for primary kids - or frankly for use in any school.

 

You can turn the profanity filter on, but you are still going to get some retard sounding off in Trade or General chat, trying to cause a fuss. Yes, you can turn that channel off, but it isn't hard to turn it back on again.

 

Could you imagine taking 20 Yr 5s into Barrens chat? Horrifying!

 

Purely as a thought experiment LOTRO would be a far better option - far maturer community, the the Tolkein world is far more "child" friendly, especially at the first 10 levels.

[Crowmanuk]

Can you imagine some of them being invited into a pug (pick up group) in any dungeon and having them ripped to shreds because they didnt know what they were doing? Wow is a great game, once you get into it a lot you start looking into spreadsheets to maximise your dps and make you a more effective player but it is so very very addictive, I certainly wouldnt drag anybody into it even though I really love playing it myself, I'm more of a social player though, lots of alts and no time to raid....

I've said too much, i'm revealed as a geek and a wow addict aghhghghg.

[elsiegee40]

Don't be embarrassed Crowmanuk... it's handy having a forum of people where some will know things like this in detail. Count your gaming as research to help others!

[Crowmanuk]

Wonder if I could get the headteacher to pay for my, er "research"

[tom_newton]

Worth noting that many of these games (can't remember for sure if WoW is among them) routinely machine-search their chat logs, looking for inappropriate (eg grooming) behaviour.

[elsiegee40]

Worth noting that many of these games (can't remember for sure if WoW is among them) routinely machine-search their chat logs, looking for inappropriate (eg grooming) behaviour.

 

 

Maybe, but it would be better if the kids weren't available for grooming in the first place.