Post #440,138
10/9/21 5:18:44 PM
10/9/21 5:18:44 PM
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Any Switch owners here?
My daughter was playing Miitopia for a couple of days without requiring parental control to launch or play it. Today she wanted to download a character design that required parental control to access it. I temporarily disabled parental controls and she downloaded the character.
Now every time she tries to launch the game it's prompting her for parental controls. Is there something in the character design that requires parental controls every time? How can I get it back to where she could play the game without me disabling parental controls?
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Post #440,143
10/10/21 7:30:44 AM
10/10/21 7:30:44 AM
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Get rid of the character
Not that I have any clue for real but if it required parental controls to install a character that means the character itself is going to need parental controls in the future to use.
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Post #440,144
10/10/21 8:48:23 AM
10/10/21 8:48:23 AM
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Yeah, that's the obvious thing
If it's true though, I'd like to understand what specifically it does. Is it just a licensing issue - the device needs to phone home to authorize? Or does it actually allow communication beyond what other characters do?
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Post #440,146
10/10/21 8:53:33 AM
10/10/21 8:53:33 AM
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Oh so you don't have a goal
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Post #440,147
10/11/21 9:59:24 AM
10/11/21 9:59:24 AM
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But his daughter has a goal: Playing with that character.
Not necessarily for the parental-control-requiring traits of it, but perhaps others. Killing it would deprive her of those traits too.
(The other solution, Drew, is of course to just disable parental controls altogether. They're probably set according to silly American standards anyway: She's been virtually splattered in on-screen blood and gore since she was seven, but this character shows a hint of boobs, or something?) --
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #440,149
10/11/21 11:01:33 AM
10/11/21 11:01:33 AM
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Problem is, as far as I can tell, it's all or nothing
If I disable parental controls entirely, that opens up communication. I don't want her texting with people I don't know, and I can't find a way to disable only that in the game. Either the game is whitelisted or it's not.
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Post #440,158
10/12/21 2:43:01 AM
10/12/21 2:43:01 AM
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Ah. Yeah, that should probably be separate.
As should perhaps blood-and-gore-spatter vs flashing-a-boob, so bloodthirsty prudes can disable one but not the other, and sexually-liberated anti-violence people vice versa.
Would probably lead to ever more fine-grained sub(-sub-sub-sub...)-distinctions, and then complaints about "too confusing interface", or at least I guess that's their excuse for not doing it that way. (Though yeah, chatting with people vs in-game character behaviour seems a more fundamental distinction to me too.) --
Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking EverythingMail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
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Post #440,159
10/12/21 8:22:38 AM
10/12/21 8:22:38 AM
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Possibly fixed
She came to me last night to enter the password so she could play. After entering, I noticed that instead of temporarily disabling parental controls I was whitelisting the game. (She wasn't trying to trick me, just followed the prompts onscreen.)
I went into the app on my phone and un-whitelisted it and now she seems to be able to get into the game with controls enabled again.
This feels like a bug in how parental controls are implemented.
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