Community ManagerHey all, if the account unable to access the game is an underage account then due to the COPPA law it is not possible for underage children to access the online aspect of many titles. Your children will be able to play certain parts of the game such as single player and offline content, which you can set up by following the instructions here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/give-your-child-access-to-games-on-their-child-account
While it's true that EA won't enable child accounts for Battlefront 2 online content, it's entirely untrue that COPPA is the cause or that EA is uniformly enforcing COPPA.
1) EA is enforcing child restrictions in a much more Draconian way for Battlefront 2 than it is for other EA titles. As many have posted, FIFA works just fine.
2) EA is actively telling people in help to work with Microsoft's parental permissions, while knowing full well that Origin is ignoring those designations for Battlefield 2.
3) EA isn't actually enforcing COPPA, as you can sign on to EA systems with the exact same child ID information and a different birth date and EA welcomes them with open arms into their online content.
4) EA is offering a significant portion of their Battlefront 2 value online, while locking out most of their target audience from said online content and offering zero in the way of restitution. I've seen other posts on AHQ defending this that amount to "read the fine print" and on top of that, the fine print is wrong as there are many kids above COPPA age who cannot access Battlefront 2 due to EA's poor implementation.
5) As posted elsewhere in this thread, COPPA is fine with parental permissions, but EA isn't.
EA is effectively forcing parents out of Microsoft's pretty well-thought-through permissions system if their kids want to play the Star Wars game they got for Christmas. And they're doing it out of fear of loot box gambling lawsuits specific to Battlefront 2, not out of COPPA requirements. And they're going out of their way to not state this publicly, instead offering misleading help advice that is wasting a lot of parents' time.
More on this in the related Bug Reports thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Xbox-Attempt-to-connect-to-online-error-code-524/td-p/6431848/page/6
