Hi, This thread is going to be about the age requirement for creating an account on SWTOR. I'm sorry if this is an inappropriate place for me to create this thread I was torn between here or customer service; but all the threads in that section seemed to technical and I guess this is more of a general discussion/complaint/way to vent my rage in a healthy way than a problem with my PC.
Anyhow, my issue started back in January. I had been convincing my friend at college that SWTOR was the future, the way forward. I had watched the trailers and was memorized by the light saber fights, it brought me back to the days when I had watched the Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and my favorite of all: Revenge of the Sith (by far the best Star wars movies as I had no strong nostalgia attaching me to the old ones anymore than the Phantom Menace.) Anyway, I successfully managed to persuade him to get the game.
I ordered my copy on Amazon for next day delivery along with my Naga Razer I was also planning on getting. My game came early so I started exploring the game as a Jedi Knight, I was having a whale of a time thinking "wow I can't wait until he gets the game we're gonna have so much fun..." Little did I know, however that when he did get the game He would be unable to make an account because he is only 17 -.-...
Yes that's right, he was told that he was now yet old enough to handle the content that SWTOR had instore for him.. Now, unless SWTOR had some harcore pornorgraphy in it (which it turned out it didn't ) I don't quite understand what was so terrible that he couldn't handle it... But anyway, rules are rules huh? He shouldn't have bought a game that warned him he wouldn't be able to play it until he was 18 right? But then I checked the box SWTOR came in...
It said on the front "16" which I believe tells us the recommend age. So he was old enough to play the game.. but not make an account...? Now that would be really annoying.. but if they had said in small print on the back "must be 18 to register" I guess it would be his own fault for buying the game...
However, I did read the small print on the back and you know what it says? "MUST BE 13+ TO REGISTER"!!! So he paid his hard earned cash that he had to ask his mummy and daddy for to buy a product that told him, a 17 year old, that he should be 16 to play and must be 13 to play/register and then we he tried to create his account he got a stupid message telling him he's to young.
He then had the choice of either lieing and pretending to be a year older or waiting to June... He picked the second option... -.- So as a result, he can't play a game he paid for an should rightfully be allowed to play and worse still I've got no one to level with!
He's so scared that he'll be found out by the BIOWARE secret police and get banned that he's waiting until June! But he shouldn't have to! They shouldn't be allowed to do this!
So now I've got to wait until June until I can play with him, but that's when Mists of Panderia might be coming out! Anyhow, anyone else think that this is REALLY stupid? Further more does he have any legal rights at all? i.e the right to complain and have his account made by a Gamemaster or be allowed to lie about his age?
Thanks for reading... unless you just skiped to the bottem of the age to try and work out what the issue was.. if you did then shame on you...