Can we get children?

[Katie_Kitty]

Only way this would work; and even then it's unlikely, is if they are untargetable. There exists an unfortunate group of people that would abuse this system for improper/lewd reasons that the Dev team wishes not to be associated with. I believe that much has been stated before.. or so I remember anyway.

I don't really care for the idea being recommended here, but this kind of response to it is just hilarious to me. I can't think of any other game community where gameplay features and ideas are routinely rejected because "W-what about the pedos?"

[Bright-Flower]

I don't really care for the idea being recommended here, but this kind of response to it is just hilarious to me. I can't think of any other game community where gameplay features and ideas are routinely rejected because "W-what about the pedos?"

To be fair most suggestions for things to add to an MMO that I see....don't involve children in the first place. Let alone having players adopt the kids.

[Kolsykol]

Tbh I'd kinda feel sorry for the WoL's kids.
Their parents would be completely abscent pretty much constantly lol.

I mean, we're pretty busy story-wise.

[Shibi]

Tbh I'd kinda feel sorry for the WoL's kids.

I dunno...

"Dad, can I go to my friends?"
*nod*
"Dad, can I have $20?"
*nod*
"Dad, can we have KFC, Pizza, and icecream for dinner?"
*nod*

[Saefinn]

I don't really care for the idea being recommended here, but this kind of response to it is just hilarious to me. I can't think of any other game community where gameplay features and ideas are routinely rejected because "W-what about the pedos?"

Whilst I can understand non-dodgy reasons for wanting it, for example there could be a lot of wholesomeness tied to it and fun moments and could make for some good slice-of-life content, and as somebody who likes slice-of-life and wholesomeness I'd be on board for that.

I do see the pedo angle being a legit concern and if anything, better for them to avoid enabling as much as is reasonable. I think if anything it's a sad statement of reality and more so that it is the first concern people have. I'm sure they'd also want to avoid a situation where an article gets written about how the game has become a hotbed of pedophilia. So it's possible they don't see it as worth that risk.


Plus, I don't know what kind of demand there would be. Given they'd still need to create child versions of Lalafell, Roegadyn, Viera and Hrothgar to accommodate it. Although we've seen a child Lala in one of the Little Ladies day events (which was got some wholesomeness at least) they used a standard Lala model. So I expect this is a part of it too.

[Kolsykol]

There's a lot of stigma and stereotypes about the Japanese and Japanese media when it comes to this too, so when people hear '' kids in video games '' in connection to Japan that comes out.
I mean people tend to jump to extremes a lot, when I've asked for more feminine gear in games before people have literally every time jumped to '' you want plate bikinis ''.
I've been asking for that in Baldur's Gate 3 and it's like every single person responding to it is arguing in bad faith and make it about that even when I specify that's not what I mean.
It's as if every time anything like this gets brought up peoples minds jump to the most extreme and exaggerated examples.
Same if a character design is censored in a game and you don't like it, it's always spun as '' you're just a pervert who wants to do this and that ''...

People asking for more body customization comes to mind too, there's always people trying to spin it as if people wanting it are just perverts.
Now that I think about it too it tends to always be sexual.
I can't think of non-sexual things and accusations people jump to like this.
Maybe if someone sees perverts everywhere they have some issues themselves they need to work on.

Edit: To be clear I don't think that some of the views towards Japanese media are totally unfounded.
I enjoy sexualized content, but the rather questionable ages of characters in way too much Japanese media is pretty gross imo and I do think deserves legit criticism.

I just meant that I think it's pretty unfair to just assume bad intent just because it's a Japanese game, people shouldn't assume those things still.

To be fair most suggestions for things to add to an MMO that I see....don't involve children in the first place. Let alone having players adopt the kids.

I don't think that most MMO's have ingame weddings and housing built into the game either and as much RP value.
FFXIV has a very strong RP community and there's a lot of content aimed towards that.

[Anhra]

I think there are too many Children in this game arround already, especially the kind that plays "lets get married".