So, why isn't this a thing yet?

[Nestama]

Wasn't MGSV among other games with children in them sold over seas too? As if a series like Final Fantasy will be given a hard time for having a child hero fighting fantasy monsters.

And the game is rated R18+ because of that in Australia (if we didn't have that rating for games, it would either have been banned or heavily censored... or it is censored somewhere). A child dying from sickness or some other means (that is not graphically violent in one way or another) wouldn't affect the rating much, but a child being physically harmed, or even killed, would boost the games rating to MA, R or banned.

I looked about and see that Metal Gear Solid V has been censored in certain countries. So there you go.

Every country is different with its rating system. If a country says "no" to playable children, then that "no" will affect the entirety of FFXIV (kinda like when us Aussies forced Bethesda to change morphine into Med X in Fallout 3).

[DasFelix]

And the game is rated R18+ because of that in Australia (if we didn't have that rating for games, it would either have been banned or heavily censored... or it is censored somewhere). A child dying from sickness or some other means (that is not graphically violent in one way or another) wouldn't affect the rating much, but a child being physically harmed, or even killed, would boost the games rating to MA, R or banned.

I looked about and see that Metal Gear Solid V has been censored in certain countries. So there you go.

I'm pretty sure the R-18 Rating in Australia is very recent too so it's a good argument.
Before that we had quite many Games that couldn't release over there because of that.

On a side not the parts of MGSV that where censored where the Torture Scenes, not the Child Soldier part.

[Kurogaea]

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The children do die, one scene in the.... ok I swear you guys don't look this stuff up. here:

[SPOILER] Euthanasia of an Australian kid, game still sold over seas, with only one part censored in that game over in Japan which is a scene with Paz when her guts we're shown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzAnaV0rkF0 [SPOILER]

So what countries ban games for playable children that can die in/be ko'd and respawned to fight again? Seriously dude, playing as a kid in a fantasy action environment (As real as most can possibly make FFXIV seem) would not change the games rating, unless they we're mauled alive with blood and guts spewing everywhere. Even the most ridiculously non-threatening moment when

(SPOILER) Raubahn gets his arm chopped off, its bloodless and greeted with a less excruciating cry for pain. (Your friggen arm is off, don't care how strong you are dude) (SPOILER END)

[Kurogaea]

And I've yet to see that in this game, other than explanatory text with references from other movies and junk. For game examples(AGAIN) with kids dying in rated T to E games: Kingdom Hearts, Sora dies but comes back with love power, Final Fantasy 9 and Tactics, you play as a child and you can die, Brave Fencer Musashi - you can die as a young kid hero, Disgaea series - child demons everywhere- they look like kids and they can indeed die.