Do you let your teens game in their bedrooms?

[TeenyParent]

So my son started gaming online when he was 8. It was mostly Minecraft with his friends so fairly innocent. At the time I was wary of him having a computer in his room so we just set him up on my work computer downstairs. I work in the day and he has it after school and weekends.
He is now a young teen and I am wondering if it’s time I let him have something set up in his room. On the one hand I like the fact he is around with the family atm. On the other hand he is enveloped in his game. He also needs to learn to self limit his gaming at some point as left to his own devices he would be on all day. At present we insist on a certain amount of time off the games. But I’m wondering how others manage this with this age group.
Most of his peers seem to have computers in their rooms, some with a 9pm curfew but a couple are left completely to their own devices, meaning they game till the early hours.
For reference I leave my phone charging downstairs when I go to bed, I think we all need some time away from our electronic devices.

@shinynewapple21 my ds has two friends who have parents that literally don’t see any problem with them playing as long as they like. They have bedrooms away from their parents and total freedom. Obviously once my ds goes to university he will have to charge his phone in his room and have any pc/laptop in there too. I do think at some point he will have to learn to regulate himself but maybe not yet.

Mine are 18 (at uni) and 15 and they have a large playroom so they have always gone on computers in there. Certain games penalise the player if they quit during a game ie Rocket League as some people quit if they are losing but it counts against you. Therefore it is difficult to say come off at X time if some missions on Rainbow Siege take longer if they qualify through to the next round.

Previously we have always had a no phones when they started secondary school, we would wake them. When we thought they could be sensible the phones went back in. We always ask if they need an intervention, no repercussions, no punishments just hand the phone back over. They learned to regulate themselves but we helped in the beginning when it was more difficult.

Because their computers are in the playroom we are able to see what they are playing and have sat with them whilst they played so we can understand it when they talk to us.

Both Dh and I had a Playstation one and gamed together so understood the pull of gaming. We do not have a negative attitude to it. Neither of mine had/have tvs in their rooms. Bedrooms are for sleeping, all games, toys, tech is in that playroom.

No phones or devices upstairs. Works for us.

My DC are a bit older but they always gamed in their bedrooms. When they are younger teens phones were left downstairs (which I still do with mine). Then as they got older they could do what they wanted regarding phones, bedtimes etc. I never had any problems with them gaming too much and not studying. We did encourage reading for an hour before sleep which they both enjoy doing.