LogFAQs > #971737774

The problem with parental control options is that they're only effective if parents know about them. More significantly, they're only effective if parents know they're necessary. Neither point tends to be advertised, given how profitable having kids addicted to and spending money on these games tends to be, so both points of awareness tend to be lower than they need to be to solve the problem.

Having the controls on by default would help a lot, but that gets into questions of how to verify ages, which will almost certainly end up not stopping the kids that try to work around them. On the flip side, those kids that do comply and get their parents to disable them (along with adult players) have an extra hassle/privacy concern to deal with for little actual benefit because they've already got parents paying attention to their gaming and trying to make sure it's healthy. That's mostly where efforts like this are doomed to fail, since reliable age verification is hard and ultimately not worth the cost to the large majority of people that aren't doing anything wrong.