The thread about children playable deleted?

[Sorciechan]

Yeah, Mabi is a special case, given the lore (being from another world, has to make a body to enter Mabi, and you can rebirth to a certain age and be thousands of years old), and even then, that's not a good excuse for others to emulate. And, also, I wouldn't use Mabi as an example, given how incompetent NA Nexon is. Or, do I have to point out all the breaking servers, black box characters, duping items... It's no wonder, given the lack of watching their own game, that you see a lot of perverts erping as 10-14 yrs olds. In fact, that's kinda proves SE's point. Why the heck would they want to ruin their game's reputation just after picking it up from near devastation, just for those ppl that rly want to rp as children? It's like giving those "bad actors" more ammuniton. /inb4threadcloses

[KisaiTenshi]

Yeah, Mabi is a special case, given the lore (being from another world, has to make a body to enter Mabi, and you can rebirth to a certain age and be thousands of years old), and even then, that's not a good excuse for others to emulate.

I pointed it out as the only example that defies the "you can't play kids for (legal reason)", most other game developers just don't want to take the risk of their game getting banned because it crosses some culture-legal barrier. Americans are so squeemish about boobs, but Asians are not. Yet Americans see nothing wrong with "sticking a baby in a blender" (this is a metaphor), while nearly every country outside the US is horrified at the level of violence that the US does nothing about, and seems to consider the norm.

Thus it makes little sense to make video games a shallow imitation of real life. I see nothing wrong with a fictional environment letting you do whatever-the-hell-you-want... as long as it's single player. As soon as it's multiplayer, you have to take into consideration that you are playing with other REAL people, and you can't just go around murdering and grinding into everyone. Both Murder and Rape are illegal in real life, but somehow we give gratuitous video game violence a pass while we scream about wanting to censor any sexual content, regardless of consent.

Like I don't really like the "content" of GTA, but I'm willing to give it a pass, because a lot of the criminal stuff you do in it, has immediate direct consequences, and the difficulty scales up rapidly. It's also yet another game with no children in it. Because it would likely get the game banned in more countries. It's violence, period, that gets games banned in other countries, and it's the scale of gratuitous violence that gets it banned. Nothing to do with children.

What is more interesting is why games are censored, by the developer just to sell into certain regions. Many violence and drug references are cut to sell into Australia. To sell into Germany many violence and Nazi-references need to be cut. To sell into Arab nations, violence, religious and sexual references have to be removed, etc. Again, nothing to do with children.

And, also, I wouldn't use Mabi as an example, given how incompetent NA Nexon is.

Nexon NA's incompetence and Nexon KR/JR's incompetence is of the same scale Square-enix is when it comes to monitoring abuse. They are profit-driven corporations, and corporate policy (such as not having anyone working weekends, or outside of banking hours) is why so much hell breaks loose. You simply can not have 3 people per server watching everything. Nexon NA's forums would regularly have people post porn on the weekends because they knew it wouldn't get removed before monday.

A similar pattern exists on the Square-Enix forums, due to low-visibility of the Community Managers. While we don't get porn-sunday threads like Nexon, we do get a LOT of duplicate topic threads, AND, we get a lot of pitchfork threads.