I suffer too, my dad has put a parental control on my account so that i can only play 20.00 - 22.00 everyday. The school in swiss is pretty hard and my dad wants me to focus 100% on school, even though i'm one of the smartest students in my class. Another thing is, i live a bit far away from my friends and i usually don't see them very much after school, so 16.00 - 20.00 i usually have nothing to do but to play wow, wich i can't, and when i confront my dad with these facts he just tells me i should go read a book, learn for school or some other lame excuse not to let me play.

Most parents aren't tech enough to setup something like this, or even know it exists.

Funny thing, when I was kid my mom would lock the computer when she wasn't around. (Old fashion x86 with the keylock on the front) Thing was, any kid knew that all you needed to do was open the case, unplug the lock from the motherboard, and computer times were once again had by all!

I remember I'd hear her car pull in, quickly shutdown the comp and re-attach the lock. Then she'd come upstairs, unlock it, and I would resume playing! Ha! I should tell her about that some time...

Considering how addicted to the game many of us adults are, I think it's a good thing that Blizzard added a feature for parents to block kids from playing the game more than a set amount.

Seriously, think about it, kids are better off getting their homework done than playing WOW from the time they get home from school until they go to bed at midnight every day...

The only problem I see with Blizzard adding this feature is that it actually requires that the parents make some effort to watch and control what their kids to. Actual parenting... There are a LOT of families out there with kids who are not controlled and parents who don't give a crap. This feature likely won't be used by those families...

haha sucks to be a kid

but hopefully it'll help cull the population of idiots wasting space on the servers

Kids usually get home first so if they were smart they would have already set the password for parental controls

If it lessens the amount of pre-pubescent annoying kids on the realms, then good.

Now I thank the gods I dont have to ask my parents to play, I suffer with you younglings, I truly do :/