

For example, if you are below the minimum age of digital consent in your country, you won’t be able to connect to social networks and access social features (such as chat). In some of our mobile games that don’t require an EA Account to play, we ask players their age, and then turn off features which may not be appropriate for them. Many countries have data protection laws that require us to make sure that children experience our games in a way that’s appropriate for their age. Nintendo SwitchĪll EA titles follow the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls™. XboxĪll EA games follow the Xbox family settings. PlayStation®5 and 4Īll EA games follow the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 parental controls. This means that your child won’t be able to play EA games that need an EA Account to link to Steam. SteamĬhild EA Accounts can’t link to Steam accounts. To learn more about platform parental controls that can be set for both child and teen accounts, see below. You can adjust the parental controls so your child can only use their teen account to play the single-player, offline modes of an EA game using your platform parental controls. Many of our games will selectively turn off a single feature based on the parental controls set (so if you disable multiplayer through the parental controls, they won’t be able to access that feature in-game), but other games may switch off all online features. For example, if you turn off communicating with other players in your platform parental controls, that will turn off communications with other players in the EA game as well. If your child is under the age of 18 years, you can set parental controls on a platform level which will be followed in our games. If you link your teen's account to yours, we have settings that allow you to set spend and playtime limits for them. Redeem game codes bought by adult players.Connect their games to social media or link their accounts to Steam.Use companion web apps for games, or use mobile companion apps that need an EA Account login.Log in to our websites but they can use help.ea.com to create a case if they have an email address (a parent has the option to use the email address they used to validate a child account).That means you can’t be an EA Play member or use EA Gift cards. Access online modes on PC or Mac in certain games.

Based on the settings you choose, you may be able to allow access to online play for your child: The EA app Check out our breakdown by platform to see how you can set up parental control settings. This depends on the platform they’re playing on.

Their EAD is the username you set up for them when you created their account. When logging into the EA app, you need to use your child’s EA ID instead of an email address to access their EA Account. Access to certain online features in child accounts depends on the game and platform, as well as the parental controls that have been set.
