[vermilingua]

How do you propose MS/Mojang determine who is and is not an actual child? Require parents to provide legal documents of their children? Photographic confirmation? Time and time again it has been proven that attempts to segregate the internet into adult/child zones will fail.

[ShowalkKama]

opt-in "self flagging". Logic is a parent can report the date of birth of the child at time of purchase (maybe set up an email to receive a confirmation in case you want to disable the kid mode).

[BeefWellington]

Ah, but then you have adults "self flagging" as children to be awful.

[xdrosenheim]

But then you have their new moderation for that group...

[BeefWellington]

The ones they're not already paying for / doing?

Anyone who has played anything in the MMO genre over the past couple of decades can tell you that most moderation systems are a joke and as automated as possible, with very very few moderators looking at reports.

[bspammer]

So? All the kid servers in this hypothetical would be heavily moderated.

[orsond]

No idea. They should figure it out. The point is that their solution doesn't and will not work in solving this problem.