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Fess up. Who sometimes gets their kids to step in and play during hard or boring parts of the game?

AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
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Ok, ok. Maybe I suck as a parent. But it seems symbiotic. The kids want to play Dad's game. Dad is old, slow, and impatient. So yes, I have had them step in a few times. I'm not proud. 

Anyone else ready to take a shameful bow?

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,003
    edited August 2019
    Well I don’t have kids but I hate cooking in games so let my girlfriend do it in breath of the wild. I should add that she actually likes it though hates cooking in “real life.”
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    For example. EQ2 once had a Valentine's day event where roses appear on the ground. Collect the roses. Turn the roses in. Get stuff.

    Or ....

    SELL the roses to people who actually give a shit. For quite a lot.

    So I had my then elementary age son run around collecting roses. Many, many hundreds of roses. Which I sold. 

    I felt exploitive and dirty, even. But it was a lot of coin. He didn't seem to mind. 

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  • AbimorAbimor Member RarePosts: 874
    lol first kid is due this September, my wife often has me do the crafting grind for her in lotro because i have more time. I cant wait till he is older now I see my gathering monkey 
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  • AkulasAkulas Member RarePosts: 3,006
    I do all my stuff myself and expect my kid to do all his stuff himself.

    This isn't a signature, you just think it is.

  • tawesstawess Member EpicPosts: 4,227
    Dang it i knew there was a legit reason to have kids... Oh well can´t be arsed now. 
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  • natpicknatpick Member UncommonPosts: 271
    for sure while back in vanilla wow while going for pvp honor in those very long av battlegrounds I sometimes let my oldest son play for a couple hours or so,he was 16 at time tho,got him hooked on wow a short time until he found girls lol.
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,498
    edited August 2019
    Never to play on my behalf but I used to have my son sign on my characters in Vanilla WOW when he got home from school so I could burn down the login queues before I got home.

    There were some games I asked him to create placeholder characters to reserve my names during their initial launch windows.

    Also, early on EVE didn't have skill training queues so on occasion one would expire while I was at work and I'd ask my children to login and set a new skill training.
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  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    My kid is 4. I plated HC PoE so no, now i play SC 2, so no.

    I do sometimes play entropia but that is real money, so no.


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  • AriesTigerAriesTiger Member UncommonPosts: 444
    I do this by "babysitting" for the neighbors. Their kids play my game for me and I loot the rewards lol.
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  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    What else are kids/younger siblings for?
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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,041
    I was kinda bad at the fatalities in MK11 so I let my 4 year old daughter do them to farm currency....

    I joke, I joke. All my gaming stuff is completely off limits for the kids, they’ve got their own on their Ipads.

    /Cheers,
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,498
    Albatroes said:
    What else are kids/younger siblings for?
    Yardwork and cleaning out cat boxes of course.

    ;)
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  • AlBQuirkyAlBQuirky Member EpicPosts: 7,432
    Ya got me :(

    My son has stepped in for me a few times in a few games.
    Amathe

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  • WalkinGlennWalkinGlenn Member RarePosts: 451
    I trained my 5 year old to gas mine in wormholes. She did die to sleepers, but only because i thought i had triggered and cleared that site already.
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  • MMOExposedMMOExposed Member RarePosts: 7,387
    MAN I WANT KIDS 
    ;-(
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  • alkarionlogalkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584
    strange, I had children, cousin and nephew, asking for me to pass hard parts,

    I never ask for help, if i'm bored with such part or I suck it up and do it for the reward, or don't do it, expecting someone else do my part is not only lazy, but not a good way to teach children, even passing the "hard" part for my cousins was more like he would sit together with me and then see what I do so he could learn how to do it, it alwyas had details they would miss and they learned, then they could pass the "hard" part alone after
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  • GutlardGutlard Member RarePosts: 1,019
    I can't get my boys to like anything I like. It was the whole reason I agreed to plant 'the seed' and have them... I wanted to finally play MMORPG's with a group of peeps with no drama. Oh well.

    They like Fortnite FFS....but have seemed to move on from that, so IDK.

    They're still young so there's still hope. They don't even know all the genres available out there. Fingers crossed!

    I almost got them to play Borderlands 2/Pre-Sequel with me, but that lasted like an hour...

    Gut Out!
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    strange, I had children, cousin and nephew, asking for me to pass hard parts,

    I never ask for help, if i'm bored with such part or I suck it up and do it for the reward, or don't do it, expecting someone else do my part is not only lazy, but not a good way to teach children, even passing the "hard" part for my cousins was more like he would sit together with me and then see what I do so he could learn how to do it, it alwyas had details they would miss and they learned, then they could pass the "hard" part alone after
    Children can be helpful. For example, I'll bet if you asked one nicely they could show you how to write a paragraph with more than one sentence. Give it a try, and good luck!
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  • GutlardGutlard Member RarePosts: 1,019
    #sickburns2019!

    Gut Out!

    What, me worry?

  • VengeSunsoarVengeSunsoar Member EpicPosts: 6,601
    edited August 2019
    Mines only 16 weeks old. Wife tells me I'm not allowed to introduce her to games yet. Some baloney about screen time habits  :)
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