Curb Your Kid's Fortnite Consumption with Epic's New Suite of Parental Controls

Never really liked these sorts of things, if you raise your kid right then there’s no need for strict hardline limits. They did the same with TV back in the day, the more you ration it out to your kids rather than it being freely available, the more they see it as a luxury that they’re missing out on. My mum let me and my siblings drink in the house from the age of like 14, none of us drink much at all in adulthood.

Get the kids off the game so you have more time to appreciate Chun-Li and Meowscles.

Ahh, yes, parenting for the parents of Fortnite addicts. Times up kids, no more Fortnite today, you've had too much, now go wash up and snort all your coke lines and hit the Caesars app for some blackjack before bed.

@NEStalgia 🤣 That escalated quickly

What did they do to my girl?

@Sequel That's fake Chun Li by western devs.

I’d rather let Fortnite raise my children for me so no thank you epic mega games.

This won't do anything, kids are born with a smart phone in their hands now, real parenting is non existent.

Or just be a real parent and limit screen time from the onset. Growing up my parents didn’t allow us to game Monday thru Thursday during the school year. We could only maybe watch an approved TV show for 30 minutes. Assuming we completed our home work to their satisfaction. It’s really not that hard.

@Vaako007 My parents worked long and hard while watched my little brothers. It's not always as easy for parents not because they don't want to but because they are really busy.

Not all parents have the luxery to that they have a job from 9:00 to 17:00. And I really don't understand why you would have a issue with no more tools for parents to control the gaming time of the kids.

Curb it to zero and buy them a real game. Fortnite is just a virtual hangout space and its main aim is to turn all inhabitants into addicts and continually drain them of their (pocket) money.

All the non parent making judgmental "be a real parent" comments is laughable. Times have changed since the 80s and 90 when kids were going out playing at the park. When i tell my daughter to go and get some air and go out with her friends she cant.... because they are all playing video games.
As long as school work is kept on top of, switch off time is abided by, she is aware that micro transactions are a no no and attitudes are in check her time is her own to spend with her friends, which is usually playing video games or watching tv shows. Id much rather know what my 15yo girl is doing by her being in her room chatting to her friends that her be out doing god knows what because whenever i see other girls of her age they've usually got a joint or a vape hanging in their hands walking about in belly tops, tight leggings/short skirts with makeup trowled all over their faces. I know what id rather my daughter be doing.

@Flaming_Kaiser That all speaks to the collapse of Western society sadly. For thousands of years society worked because one parent was mostly always home raising kids. The modern world was duped into that becoming a luxury of the rich and everyone else is conscripted into perpetual labor and the kids are raised by wolves and other kids, or worse, corporations and government institutions.

Honestly I think the zero dawn fix would probably be for the best.

I used to just get a good smack when I was a kid. Worked though.

People can argue back and forth as to if necessary or not, but im sorry, giving parents an additional tool like this is a good thing - its up to individual circumstances if its needed, but at least it is a defined boundry.

Just let the kids play the Last of US and scrare the sh*t out of them at night with the clicker sound. They won't be pushig square for a while after that.

But all jokes aside, it's a great feature to have if needed. My kids are only playing singleplayer games like the smurfs and astrobot right now so they are not online yet. They are allowed to play a reasonable amount of time on it, but they also need to play with there toys, play outside or do some crafts and create there own stories.

Remove plug from wall.

@NEStalgia I was with you until Zero Dawn lol.

ButterySmooth30FPS Jr. better not be playing Fortnite at all

They should also have notification when kid uses mommies stolen credit card to purchase v bucks lol

@Deityjester i just pull the internet plug out works like a charm

So happy my kids grew out of this. Some of their friends still spends hundreds of dollars/hours on it every month!

Sounds quite distopian. I'm glad my parents didn't have that kind of control over me and I would never use that on my children. I think we can talk that sh it out.

Those who are smart, those who get them to play a variety of games, those who get them to balance things and will, parents that even understand how parental controls work even or understand games well enough. Like all other factors then just these controls are a thing take control.

Screen conditioning and other factors. They do it when young good luck they messed up handling it early and the consequences are set in place. The creativity or education to go wild of drawing, reading and tv shows even and balance of those.

Cables or internet settings on the consoles and TV is a way. Timers are one thing but does it work? Do the age rating limits for games, do the prevention of stuff on accounts. Or having a console for the kid and the adult account not on the console so limits things more. PS5/Xbox One and Series with the console POST sound to turn off as well compared to handhelds or older consoles those with noise and those not.

I had parental controls on my DSi for internet stuff or the store but yet I never even cared to use them for that. Never had parental controls on PS2 used as I and likely others didn't even know how to access it. Never had that issue on PSP either for games as what was bought.

I freaked out at COD/Resistance Fall of Man with the blood effects or the eerie environments but I got over that.

I never saw Halo being played and I wouldn't have questioned it compared to Star Wars Battlefront or other games. I still enjoy kids/family games because of the game design and somewhat care for themes depending on how things are handled in them.

I do question the 'trend' how kids would get bullied these days if got them to play other games and people go what's that.

Like many of us didn't have to deal with some trends as much I feel but like i know enough how things are these days the possibilities and stereotypes sure but accurately no idea what the case is per country, school, students themselves and their friend groups compared to the sports, clothes and other things judging of old days and probably still applies.

I'm so glad I'm childless. 😵‍💫😵

@NEStalgia 🤣 I hope it's not going to be this bad but man we get more money and stuff but somehow we get more poor at the same time. You lose so much time with the things that don't matter. Two parents need a job both to pay the bills such a sad thing to see.