Sunday, August 15, 2010

Parental control for Starcraft 2

I started playing Starcraft2 2 weeks ago and I am now completely addicted. As I have a work a and a family that I want to keep, I was trying to find a parental control software for me…

Looking inside Starcraft2 , there is still no parental control. At least no good enough to limit my time of play per week.

I tried Rescuetime as well but it is not possible to block an application. Wierd because it seems they clearly could but for whatever reason, you can only block some web site and not even all the time.

So the solution for me was timesheriff. It seems to be a very solid application. Very flexible (you can control your time per week, per day, …) It is not free but with a one month trial period, you have well the time to test the application or just give up playing the game.

As a note, I am limiting my game time to 4 hours a week so far. Seems to work fine for me.