Digimon MMO - for my kid?

[AnnaIME]

I have a son. He looooves Digimon. Now he's learned that there is a Digimon MMO. He keeps watching trailers and player clips of it all the time.

I don't play MMOs myself, and I don't feel comfortable having my precious child out in the big and dangerous world of MMOs. On the other hand, he really loves Digimon, and noone else in our family wants play Digimon World 4 (PS2) ever again if we can avoid it.

So, any thoughts? Does anyone here play? Would you let your eleven year old?

 

[Qitz]

Sure.

If your main "fear" is that he'll pick up some new words well, A- by 11, he already knows all of them anyways and B- it'll probably have a Mature Language Filter built into the chat, it is Digimon.

Or if your just not comfortable with him playing it then don't let him.

Other than that, just make sure to limit his time and the like.

 

[MisterShine]

For safety's sake:

Download the game yourself and play, and if you have any MMO know how see if you can just completely disable all of the chat channels. Unless he wants to actually play with friends or something, then you don't have to worry about all the people playing it trying to talk to him. I'm sure the game's content itself is safe enough, since it's Digimon.

If you can't figure out how to disable chat, try posting on their forums or see if there's a FAQ or something.

 

[AnnaIME]

The language problem... English isn't our first language, but yes, I think he knows most of the words.

I'm concerned that people will be mean to him. He has Asperger's syndrome, and he has a very hard time coping with unfairness. He also takes what people say at face value. He gets plenty of practise every day co-existing with "normal" people, but he get very tired. So far, gaming has been his safe zone, with rules and scripted gameplay. I'm concerned what will happen when he has to interact with anonymous people who may act like trolls.

I'm also concerned that our future conversations at the dinnertable will be all about how much Digimoney (or whatever it's called) we have to buy so that he can make progress. I'm perfectly OK with paying a monthly fee or something like that, but this seems to be one of those "play for free but if you want to succeed it will cost you" deals.

 

[Zodka]

I've actually played it. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that isn't speaking Spanish.
And as for paying money, yes and no. You don't exactly have to pay money to get very far, but it does make it a quite a bit easier.