Age restrictions for online?

@mattrmcd 

"Parents and guardians, make your own EA Account before creating one for your child. Use your email address to set it up — you’ll use it again as the parental email for your child’s account."

https://help.ea.com/en/help/account/set-up-child-ea-account/

https://help.ea.com/en/help/account/online-access-for-child-accounts/

I do have my own EA account and have tried those steps. I log out, try and sign up, then enter his birthdate and either get the regular path to create a regular account, or I adjust his birthdate one year younger and get an error saying I can't create the account without any mention of doing a child account instead and no way to enter my account's email address.

I'd already created him an account, after the flow let me create him a regular account with no redirection for creating a child account, but that account is unable to link to his PSN account with no explanation why other than that it's ineligible. Which, like you're getting at, is apparently an effect of having an account that should be a child account? … yet the sign-up flow won't let me use his birthdate to create a child account … ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

Unfortunately, there is absolutely no way for anyone under 13 to play battlefront 2 online, even with a parent account. It's completely stupid and messed up and I had multiple long winded conversations with extremely unhelpful EA people, but that's the jist of it. You want your kid to play EA games online, you need to lie and make a fake account with them over 13. It's a really messed up thing EA does and makes me dislike the company even more.

Epic, on the other hand, does an amazing job with parent accounts, parent controls, and fortnite. I can control play time, access, friend lists, all of it, and they can still play. I would definitely see if your kid wants to play fortnite instead. They also have a ton of cool star wars skins. Not all the way star wars, but still cool