The thread about children playable deleted?

[Zyrusticae]

I wish folks would stop talking about adding children and start talking about adding hybrid races with actual mixed features.

Because I would absolutely play a Lalaqo'te or a Lalahyur, no question about it.

[Khaoticsuccubus]

and lightning punches hope in ffxiv

and ellie is shot bitten and had to fight off a canibal who 'wanted' her.

in fact theres a lot of violence against children in video games,

headspace with the exploding babies and children that were turned into necromorphs.

as for JRPGMMOS theres the ... i forget what there called but there like miqo'tes that everyone RPed as. ellin?

still i think it was mostly of the people who were a bit sick in the mind to automatically assume the things people should never talk about >...> and the fact that hijacked the whole thread after 8 pages,

^^ pretty much this lol.

Oh and there was also Drakengard. That lady who ate children

Personally I think it'd be fun to have the option. I know what little I did play of skyrim, i modded it to where my character was basically A child vampire. Think I liked the motif of immortally stuck in a child's body ala the girl from interview with a vampire or Helena from old hellsing

[IceWing]

I wish folks would stop talking about adding children and start talking about adding hybrid races with actual mixed features.

Because I would absolutely play a Lalaqo'te or a Lalahyur, no question about it.

This is a great way for SE to dodge the child sexualization topic in the game as-well. While some people want to play as a child/teenager in game it's far more realistic to expect a mixed race such as the Lalaqo'te, then to request an actual playable child/teenager of an already existing race.

[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.

[Zeirnaton]

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!

Iran actually this came about with the game league of legends all female characters were banned except for annie because she is "young enough"

also this game is T for teen right? this shit makes no sense 10 year old kids =childeren = teenager apparently

[ScarecrowJames]

You can't roleplay these characters doing sexual things though, can you? Maybe in your head, but that's where it stays. This is a virtual world, where you have complete control over your character. Not the same thing. At all.



Never been creeped on by some random douche in an MMO before? Happens. Used to happen a lot.

Role play? Sorry I got friends, good friends with lives going on where they are more engaging instead of making out with a virtual character. But if you want to make out with a virtual character go ahead just make sure you don't expect me to want to be anywhere near you. Role play is fine but when you are looking for some action..well..yesh. I know friends who rp. But they have decent lives to where they wouldn't dream of trying to do dirty deeds. thats just sick and sad.

The idea of saying one could do something is not exactly a good way of saying thats why we shouldn't have this. We shouldn't have knives because someone could stab someone so we better get rid of them too. Someone could like kids so we better get rid of them to? wait wut?

trying to use pedophilia is where you are going wrong with this discussion. Editing clothes to avoid this is where Tera edited the Ellins for NA release. There are plenty of games with kids engaging in violence. The whole thing is fear of it somehow getting restricted in countries. That sounds more plausible than anything. Its not needed to have kids in a game playable. Same as having another race. Lets face it in this games story line your character is essentially a mute like White knight chronicles. Instead of sitting creepily in the background being ignored, people talk to you and they repeat what you supposedly say instead of having a choice or you give a frown/smile. Which is in since Square is forcing your role play on you in the dictated story, unless you go out and role play with other PCS.

[ScarecrowJames]

It was removed, why open a new one?

Oh your right man. Man Can't believe I did this. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with wanting a discussion.

[Shiro-Koizumi]

While I'm for Lala'qote's. I think there would be a GIANT swift in switched races....that is unless they added other hybrids also.

[Underdog2204]

The whole idea of being able to play as children makes me very uneasy.

[Zeirnaton]

The whole idea of being able to play as children makes me very uneasy.

so say I'm 13 playing ffxiv why can't I play as a 13 year old kid? the games ESRB rating is for Teens is it not when did this game become mature or Adult Only?