The Daily Grind: Do you play your favorite MMO with your kids?

No and I don't intend to.

Both my Mum and Dad play WoW and STO with me Mum and I play Free Realms with my little sister. I grew up in a house of gamers.

I find it hilarious how some people get a huge attitude if you aren't like 35. When Dad and I went to Gamescom we ran into several really fat losers who had all this contempt for kids that game....that's right you unwashed lard ass...scream about the "Immature kids" as you shove your way to the front of the line with your twenty action figures to be signed.

I've played WoW for a couple years with my daughter(she's an adult as well). That was actually the most enjoyable time I've had in a game setting.

My kids are too youg to play games at the moment, but i think i wont let them play mmo's Kinda stupid as i play them myself. But i know how i lost myself in WoW. I worked at that time but i know if i had school i would haved failed big time, every spare minute i had went to WoW at that time.

But i will never forbid them to play less adictive games, cant wait to get asskick from my son in SF6 or MK11 :P

Yes, I have two alts, a 3 year-old boy and a 4 year-old boy. The 3 year-old isn't interested in games, but the 4 year-old is. We'll play pretty much anything together, as long as I know it's not going to be too blatantly violent or overly aggressive. We've done DDO, Minecraft, WoW, Morrowind, EQ2, the Sims, all kinds of things together.

It's been 'a fun thing to do together' for us for about a year now. We play for about 20 minutes to half an hour two or three times a week. This has taught him good hand-to-eye coordination; he can mouse like a pro. It's taught him patience, because he knows there are times you have to wait for the computer to do its thing before he can play, or that he has to wait for a mob to come into range etc. He has the rudimentary knowledge about Windows now - closing, minimising windows etc. He can adjust the volume from the system tray, all kinds of stuff.

Playing Minecraft (not the Survival mode!) has had a particularly good affect on his offline skills too; hie yopunger brother was always the leader when it came to Lego and other construction toys, but now the big dude builds some great stuff that he's seen or made in MC first.

And watching him play has helped me with certain games too. Watching a 4 year-old play, who has no idea about 'The Rules', is truly enlightening. He's made me think totally differently about certain ways of playing Minecraft for example, and he's also helped me devise new strategies. For example, he taught me to play a certain level of Transformers: War for Cybertron more defensively, pointing out that I should use healing grenades more often.

Years ago, in the age of CRT monitors, I might have been less happy about it all, but with a nice big LCD monitor positioned at the back of the desk, I know he's not killing his eyeballs, and I'm always there to monitor the situation anyway.

Overall, I'm a proud dad, and I see no reason why, with common sense and careful supervision, children shouldn't be brought into the gaming world at young ages. I would like to think that when he's 10 or 12 or whatever, he could play online with other people and not be the type of angry, swearing moron that gives kids/teens such a bad rep, for example. If I'm there, sitting with him, I can teach him now to be patient and polite and tolerant of other players, rather than wait for him to explode onto the gaming scene on his own later, and be a jerk.

My 8yr old son played WoW with me when we use to play, & soon we will be playing SWTOR. I had to let him have his turn during me SWTOR beta weekend.

My daughters started playing Lotro with me back in 2008 shortly after I started. I wound up having 3 accounts (2 lifetimes) because of them. My wife also played so we still shared. I stopped playing Lotro due my issues with Turbines greed vs Content put out for RoI, but my oldest daughter still plays although I think she is losing interest now. My son seems to want to play TOR when it comes out so I might have two account there.

@Pcgneurotic

The part of being nice online makes perfect sense. God forbid that my kids turn in those ''CoD kids''. I would never allow them to go online again if the go scream and rant online :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcctWbC8Q0

I have a now 13yr old that has played Rift, DDO, WoW, EQ2x, DCUO & City of Heroes with me. Probably started when he was around 10 or 11. I also have a 5yr old that Ive played Rift with. I think theres already been some great reasons/benefits mentioned.

If I could pay Blizz for a private server, then it would be fun to have my kid and a bunch of his friends and their parents play WoW together, otherwise no.

I will never understand how many HORRIBLE, IGNORANT, LAZY so-called "parents" there are in our mmo community.

If its a game like clone wars, free realms, shso or other "KID FRIENDLY" titles, thats fine. But EVERY other AAA game SHOULD NOT be played by anyone under 13 - period.

My favorite mmos wouldn't be appropriate for my kids at their ages and the ones they play (or I'd let them play) I think are boring so, no.

They play Wizard 101 occasionally and I let them play DCUO on my Lifetime account to mess around as superheroes, but we don't play together.