Let the Kid get any game he wants. Just check in on him 1/2 hour past bedtime and make sure he isn't still up playing... and he'll be fine. Set limits up front on how much he can play. A good side benefit to playing PC games is learning how to performance tune a PC...Trust me, he'll get good at that too.

I allow my kids to play a select few PC games because along the way it helps build computing skills, Unlike Consoles such as X-BOX, Playstation etc.. They are a waste of time IMO.

Seriously in the short time I played War Crack, I was asked several time If I wanted to "hook up" by other players. It's the "Blue Oyster Bar" of online MMORGs. If you want your kid chatting with 50 year old men pretending to be 13 year old girls, go right ahead.

I'm thinking I'll discourage my son from getting inolved with W.O.W., the commitment aspect of it doesn't sit well with me...

Thanks for all the opinions and advice.

Someone suggested Call of Duty or something like that, is this also an ongoing thing, or is there and "end" ?

It's sort of like online paintball. You just shoot people.

I have witnessed that game ruin 2 marriages in 1 year. 1 time a gal I know
"hooked up" with a guy she met on that game. The guy was pretty normal but the gal was married. She eventually told her husband and they're trying to work it out.

The other was a 60 year old guy that is totally hooked on that game. He's always talking into the headset. Well, his wife heard him talking all this dirty sex talk to the game. Turns out he was planning on meeting some gal on there.


Not good.

You might let him "try" meth as well - they seem to be equally addictive and have similar results. It looks like you are doing the right thing with him so far - the real world is way more challenging than fantasy.



Thanks Dan, you really know how to hurt a guy.

I tried weed.............against the advice from my parents.

I did it because they wouldn't get me the video game I asked for.

No B.S About 2 years ago some geek in Boise got all despondent because his War crack girlfreind was ignoring him on-line and blew his brains out.

Dan S You crack me up dude

i know some what used to be pretty cool dudes that got overtaken by the game.

there is a funny southpark youtube video on the game someone here at work was watching the other day google it. its funny