How to stop a child purchasing games

ngocphi · Dec 21, 2014

Its not hard to understand what you don't understand is you are responsible for all your child's actions on unrestricted accounts

If you want your child to be controlled you must put them on a child account this is the same with all consoles

Parental responsibility has always been with the parent not a inanimate object

All consoles have parental settings that must be applied

And child controls that have to be setup

ngocphi · Dec 21, 2014

If you created an adult account for them that's your responcibility

If they created an adult account and you put your credit card on their account you give them permission to use it

That's explicitly said on your credit card aggreement

Do not let others use your account without authorization

ngocphi · Dec 21, 2014

Your issue isn't with inanimate objects but issues with your own child

Parenting is a part of life if they can't be trusted with Your credit card then maybe you should remove their privileges

HomegrownSilky · Nov 1, 2018

You could have just purchased a prepaid Xbox Live Gold card at a local retailer or even from amazon. This would keep you from having to supply a credit card.

HomegrownSilky

You could have just purchased a prepaid Xbox Live Gold card at a local retailer or even from amazon. This would keep you from having to supply a credit card.

ChintzyGore175

Of course consoles aren't babysitters and it's the parents' ultimate responsibility, but God knows Microsoft could have parental controls like AT&T's that require a parent to approve before a kid charges a $50 game on a credit card that Microsoft requires
be attached to the account, even when the parent has no intention of buying anything. So I call B.S. on you all.

Omar_0001

Shorty, you have the renewal of the Gold membership on. Meaning, your account will automatically ask you if you want to renew your Gold memberhsip through that payment option. As of what I heard before, if your payment option has expired, or is having problems,
then your account will be suspended. Not 100% sure, though.

TUFS Redbull

Microsoft reacts as if they don't care. Referring to fine print and not listening to the problem and help deal with it. The whole xbox live account management is a joke and should be revised. Why is it so hard for MS personnel to understand that their customers
are screaming for better payment restrictions and doing something anything about it ?

This is my sons account..just added a month subscription...and now can't remopve any cc of payment options until the subscription has ended ? What's the loigic in that ? The account is billed, payment is handled..why lock this? Please MS people..take a closer
look to IOS and their restrictions possibily and make the 15 min programming effort top punt in a passcode lock on parental restrictions on EVERY account and add payment and dopnload restrictions in it. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ???

Temhotabot

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Second, you could create a child account on your console and you can set parental controls for that account. A separate membership fee may be required, but your child will have their own account separate from yours.

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This right here is your BEST option. Child accounts have a slew of settings that can be adjusted to prevent unauthorized access to many parts of the Marketplace and XBL service. Just make sure you set a pass code on your adult account
to prevent the child from using that to get what he wants and make sure he doesn't see you enter it or know what it is.

How to stop a child purchasing games