The thread about children playable deleted?

[Tsukino]

I think it's weird that every thread about this jumps straight to "pedophilia." Like that's the first thing that everyone thinks of whenever children are mentioned.

[Kahnom]

Maybe the thread was deleted because of that Wedding picture.. It shouldn't be a problem if it was 2 lala in that.

[File2ish]

I can't really say if it's because of the violence against children and whatnot, or maybe that the NPC interactions tend to lean more on the adult side. Handling of alcohol and innuendo come to mind. Rubbing down Godbert and Hildy too. Plus I don't think it would be very fitting for the plot to have a kid/teen being the savior of the realm. I mean unless they make Padjal playable somehow, I doubt we'll be able to play characters younger than adults (~18). Hybrids of lalafells may be possible, but... *shudders*

Also there are more pressing matters at hand!

Why do Lalafells have better facial hair than the other races? I mean look at derplander males, I hesitate to call theirs facial hair. My guy looks like he's 15, it's hardly peach fuzz!

And highlander eyebrows? Where are they!? Manthras don't even have facial hair! And Elezen? Hardly any by comparison! Why do Lalas get all the hair!? They're hording it all, aren't they!? Can't trust them as far as you can throw them... :P

[Raidenz]

[VargasVermillion]

I could kinda see it working from an RP standpoint since many characters in cartoons are children but it'll likely be turned into a joke and would be strange in an mmo setting, especially one marketed in several regions around the world.

EDIT: oh and erp is a thing in mmos.

[KisaiTenshi]

Its pretty irrelevant. They couldn't make playable children regardless because of Legal issues no matter how much players wanted it. They outright stated that.

This has never been an issue in Mabinogi and it's been available since like 2003. Also it doesn't have blood. Neither does FFXIV.

meanwhile in the nasuverse...

i'm not sure if it was the pedobears or the "look ma, no clothes!" or maybe "why is the WoL a ten-year-old?!? where are their parents?"

Here's a mind breaker for you. You can get gay-married in Mabinogi, as two 10 year old girls or boys. You can also have a family consisting of nothing but 10 year olds.


There is nothing illegal about it. The only reason games shy away from this is because of overbearing "childporn" laws and Roleplayers who take advantage of the fact that the video game is "real enough" for them. I'll post this again:
https://community.secondlife.com/t5/...fe/ba-p/575781

Accusations Regarding Child Pornography in Second Life
by Honored Resident Robin.Linden on ‎05-10-2007 05:32 AM
What’s going on?
On Thursday May 3, we were contacted by German television network, ARD, which had captured images of two avatars, one that resembled an adult male and another that resembled a child, engaged in depicted sexual conduct. Our investigations revealed the users behind these avatars to be a 54-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman. Both were immediately banned from Second Life.

During a subsequent interview with ARD’s Report Mainz documentary on Friday May 4, which aired Monday, the reporter presented photographs that he said were found in Second Life and that appeared to include sexual photographs involving a child.

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The point is, there will always be bad actors, and keeping your game away from them will never be possible. Look at how little of a dent SE makes into getting rid of RMT.

If you give players the option to play as children, the first thing you do is make sure the body is fused with the gear so modders can't "declothe" them. The second thing you do is remove "offensive" emotes that could be misconstrued as sexual acts.

In Mabinogi there was a "pelvic thrust" part of a certain animation, and because you could interrupt all the emotes with another emote by rapidly firing them off, it gave the impression of grinding into other players. There was also a way to interrupt the "resting" animations to make it look like your character was tea-bagging the another player that is sitting down. These kinds of people will always exist.

And quite honestly, being an asshat online has far more reaching negative consequences for your existing and potential future careers, that people who go around spreading "mmololicon" images are likely to get their ass kicked for realsies by anyone who makes that connection in the media to the real person.

[Odstarva]

and some countries you can't play with female characters whats ur point?

I like that you're comparing females to children.

Just wow.



Also, never heard of such a thing. What countries exactly are prohibiting people from playing with female characters!? I'm assuming a country that does that wouldn't allow video-games to begin with!

[SecretCrowds]

"The thread about children playable deleted?"

Yup. And now it's time for this thread to be deleted...

[FallenArisen0990]

I rather SE just hotfix the height bar from the smallest Lalafell to the highest Roegadyn.

[Twilite]

I think it's weird that every thread about this jumps straight to "pedophilia." Like that's the first thing that everyone thinks of whenever children are mentioned.

Well we got some weird ass people playing. You can't deny that.