EA - Star Wars Battlefront Online Features Age Restriction?

Hey there!

Thanks for the support message.

Actually, EA has a restriction to not allow child accounts to play their games online and Star Wars Battlefront is an all online game. Regardless of the parental restrictions on the child account, EA has enabled that restriction. Sorry. Your child will
have to sign into an adult account or wait until he turns the legal age in your region to play that game.

Cheers!

You can't as es goes by your xbox age which also can't be changed. The servers will tell you incorrect age and ask you to fix it

Ea and any private servers can set age restriction that is their legal right. For m rated games the restriction is 18+ hence the rating

How do you log into your Child's EA account? When I created the EA account on the Xbox, on the Home Screen of SWB, I was asked to put in my own email address (which is logical) for verification/parental consent purposes, since EA already knew the account
would be for a minor (I guess based of the Xbox Live/gamertag info). I then created a username and password for the account and submitted. Once I received the email from EA/Origin, I verified that I was the parent/guardian and that was that. Not once during
did the process did it ask for my child's email address or age.

When you go to ea.com to login, it asks for an email address and not a username. Since no email was assigned to my child's account, I cannot log into the account. If I use the username and password, I get an "Invalid email address" error message. EA did
not send any information or provide a means to me to manage the child account.

I would love to change the age on just the EA account, but, I do not think it is feasible. I read on another forum that I need to change the age on the Xbox Live account and then create a new EA account that is linked to the "now instantly >13 yr old child"
Xbox Live account. Not worth it and I do not want to give my child that much control. We can play online on my account. My child is much better than this old man and I can level up faster.

Thanks again for all the info.

There is nothing there saying that EA is blaming Xbox.

The section you have referenced above is for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The issue is actually on EA's side. The EA Account linked to your Xbox profile must be aged 13 or higher to play Battlefront.

Go to www.ea.com and log in

Then click MY ACCOUNT where it shows your name in the top right corner or
https://myaccount.ea.com/

Once there you will see under BASIC INFORMATION that it has a Date of Birth line (3rd line down). If that date is less than 13 years old the account can not be used with Battlefront.

If you want to update the account click EDIT next to "Basic Information" and update the Date of Birth. If that doesn't work, contact EA Support at
https://help.ea.com/contact-us

All publishers can do this where you link your Xbox/PlayStation account to their own system for games. EA set it so that when they know the age of the player they prevent minors accounts from playing age restricted content this is to protect them legally.

EA did not develop Titanfall, it only published it.

EA owns DICE who developed Battlefront so had to follow EA's guidelines.

EA has always restricted online play of their games to accounts aged 13 or older, even Burnout Paradise back on Xbox 360. It's not to do with game content, it's simply their policy on multiplayer.

Someone brought up Titanfall: it might simply be because EA only joined that project right at the end, and weren't the publisher from the very beginning, meaning Respawn had control over these things. Expect Titanfall 2 to conform better to the typical EA
policy.