to think Fortnite birthday cakes are

[WhatNow40]

Not appropriate for 6 yr olds.

Can't post pictures as will probably out myself. Our local cake shop posted a gallery of recent kids cakes for popular themes. They are superbly decorated and beautiful cakes, we have always used them to buy our DC birthday cakes.

Many of the cakes were Fortnite themed. All for kids younger than 12, the games age restriction.

AIBU to think a 6 yr olds birthday cake shouldn't have grenades, machine guns, bricks, axes and various other weapons on top?

I get that many kids are learning the dances in the playground, so is my son 7, but he does not get to see game footage or play it. He certainly won't get a cake. WTF is wrong with these people who think PEGI age restrictions are simply a serving suggestion, like portion sizes. Rant over.

Yanbu but everyone else will think it's perfectly fine.

Yanbu

Perhaps order a different cake for your child when it's his birthday?

Yabu but nobody else will think it's perfectly fine.

DH and I take PEGI age restrictions with a pinch of salt, if our DC want to play a game then we play through it ourselves first and decide if it's suitable based off that. Our older two (10yo and 7yo) play Fortnite, they play it in the living room with an adult present and with certain restrictions (e.g., no chatting). It is no more violent or graphic than Minecraft which also contains bricks, axes, and various other weapons.

Ok, whilst I do agree with you on the cake, I’m afraid PEGI is in fact just like a serving suggestion...

Pan European Game Information is a European video game content rating system established to help European consumers make informed decisions when buying video games or apps through the use of age recommendations and content descriptors

So I assume that these parents are letting their 6-9 yr olds play the game as well. Each one had a different specific character from the game, an assumption again, but I thought that would be the kids favourite character.

My DS asks to play Fortnite on a daily basis. He's 7. I've told him he can play it when he's 12. Am I really that out of touch that most of his friends genuinely are playing it?

I somewhat agree. My 10 year played Fortnite (he seems to have bored of it now) and I felt comfortable about that. But when I was looking at making a cake for his last birthday I didn’t feel especially enthused about making a cake with guns on it, so I didn’t.

PEGI is just a guide to give an indicator of what the content might be, the best way to know whether it's suitable is to watch some videos of people playing it and/or to play it yourself. As an example, other games my DC enjoy enjoy are Zelda, Worms, Kingdom Hearts, MegaDrive Classics, Hasbro family pack (monopoly, trivial pursuit, boggle, and risk), and Arcade Pac (pacman). All of these are rated 12.

Lots of UK primary school aged kids play Fortnite. The game itself is no more violent than the Lego series imo but because of the online chat aspect, you're very likely to hear lots of swearing etc from the humans who play it.

6 year olds shouldn't be anywhere near Fortnite or know what it is, YANBU.
My 11 and 15 year old love it. I hate it. Let the 11 year old start playing it last year when 10 as thought he'd be OK on it. Nope. Nightmare. He's currently banned for the foreseeable..
It's not for under 12s IMO, the age restriction is there for a reason.

@EwItsAHooman to be fair, Monopoly is a seriously intense game and has the potential for violence in this house. It should be a 12. And Cluedo must be an 18 at least.

@WhatNow40 I deliberately left Monopoly out of my reply.I started to type one, and then backed off lol.
Now that is a game to start arguments. I love it! Don't play with the 11 year old anymore though as I'm not kidding he's been known to upend the board, send everything flying and declare he hates it

Be thankful it isn't GTA. My son who likes playing fortnight now wants to play GTA because half his class play it. This is rated an 18 and yet all his 11 and 12 year old friends play it. I've never ever bought him a toy gun or sword etc so I feel odd about him playing these games.

@JemSynergy how old's your son? His friends are around 12 years old so I'm assuming he's year 7 - 9? (Age 11 - 13?) My 11 year old says some of his classmates play 18 games. Me - not a chance, I don't care what anyone else is doing.

I know a 7 year old who "likes" Fortnite but isn't allowed to play it. At that age they can be into things without actually knowing very much about them at all. They see it plastered everywhere and hear older children talking about it. They like all the dance moves and characters... But haven't necessarily actually experienced playing the game. I think it's fine for them to have cakes of it. Also, it's a bakery. They're not responsible for influencing parents about suitable games, they just make cakes to meet demands.

@JemSynergy I felt very strange the first time I saw DS turn stickle bricks in to a fun. We had literally never exposed him to anything with guns in it, only ever Peppa Bloody Pig. He'd recently started nursery and picked it up from other kids.

I accept parents will make different choices for their kids but I hate how their choices impact my my child. From toy guns to grenade launchers... and DS says in Fortnite you kill people and steal their skin, using bits of it to make your own friend. Now I wouldn't be surprised if that's way off the actual plot/gameplay, but that is what is being conveyed on the playground.

Aw, what, the last bit I'm not sure on. Yes, you can buy skins. As in the clothes you're wearing. I know you "kill"people in it. That you can buy skins. Never connected the two though if that's a thing?!

YANBU. In the interests of disclosure, my son plays Fortnite but he’s 10.

In a similar vein there was a game that my older son’s (now 12) were playing a few years ago called 5 nights and Freddys. My son was terrified of it and cried when people played it around him. I googled it and to me it seemed entirely inappropriate for under 18s. I was shocked therefore to see kids my son’s age wearing five nights and Freddy’s jumpers! Makes you wonder how many parents actually investigate what their kids are doing.

Older son’s friends

There is no stealing of skin.
It’s a survival scavenger game, last player or team standing wins.

Skins are the outfits that your character can earn or buy in game, purely cosmetic and nothing to do with your dermis.

Thank Gawd for that lol, glad to hear it

Ds 8 plays fortnite, I agree it's no worse than the lego series, other than the chat feature. He either plays in a party with friends or cousins, plays solo, or changes parties if anyone random starts talking over the mic (he can play in groups with randoms if there's no chat, just running around fuffiling the same objectives etc). He knows it's just a game.

He's never played 5 nights at Freddys, though is now allowed to watch other gamers playing it on youtube, while I sit and read beside him, (if he hears any bad language he has to find a new video). He loves DanDTM (who I quite like myself ), so we normally revert back to watching his videos.

He begged and begged to play 5 nights, but I think he's too young, so as a compromise, I bought him Bendy and the ink machine for his switch, which is still a bit freaky but as a 12, not as graphic or just as scary. Just as he's seen a few 12a movies already.

*TDM (d'oh)

YABU. Popular/cult things target market is very different from arbitrary suitability ratings. A lot of popular superhero stuff should also count as inappropriate.