Wizard 101 Safe Chatting

I'm no kid and I find Wizard 101 both entertaining and challenging. The graphics are decent eye-candy and the questing is difficult enough to keep kids, teens and adults all engaged and in wonder.

There are enough features in settings to make Wizard 101 one of the most safe multi-player online role playing games on the net right now. Parents who wish to limit how online players of all ages interact with their kids can put settings on chat menu only, along with a few other safety settings - then password protect the account so it cannot be changed.

The restricted chat menu will restrict communication from both sides, the user and to those interacting with the player who is using restricted chat. If you want safety, this is awesome, however and quite naturally, some kids/players using restricted settings will complain about the limits of chat... Regardless, it's better to be safe than sorry, right?

Most common questions, sayings, comments and responses are put into the restricted chat menu so that communication is quite reasonable even with restricted settings. Things like "Please May I Join?" (a battle, chat, player versus player match, etc), "Yes," "No," "Thank You," "You're Welcome," "OK," are supplemented by a reasonably wide range of other menu-text so that quite a lot of communication is possible.

Players with lower restrictions will still need to use text wisely and respectfully and be aware that KingsIsle Entertainment (KI for short) has gone to great lengths to make Wizard 101 as safe for players (of all ages) as possible. There are filters in place to restrict numbers (so that phone numbers cannot be exchanged easily), cuss words and even some name places and spelling which might mean people are typing personal addresses via game chat on the internet. In my opinion - AWESOME - great job, KingsIsle!

Here is a screenshot of some of the menu-only chat options:

I created a brand new character (Fallon ShadowSmith) in order to provide illustrations of some aspects, options and features of the Wizard 101 game on my blog so you will see a very empty "Friends List" for quite a while.

In keeping with KingsIsle Entertainment's brand of safety online, I will try to keep other player names out of my screenshots whenever possible - just in case...