So, why isn't this a thing yet?

[Canadane]

Ahem, lalafells are prey to everything. Not one person (even children) are safe from monsters, whats your point?

Lalafellen adults are still mentally and physically able to handle themselves in the dangers of the world.
It's natural to protect children until they're ready to fend for themselves. Many species do this, seemingly including the spoken races of Eorzea.

[Samcaesar]

God who revived this forsaken thread?

[AlphaFox]

Personally I dont see the issue, there are other MMOs, one that comes to mind is Mabinogi where you can choose to start your game as a kid / teen / adult and your character ages overtime. Granted I didn't get to far into the game myself and they may have since changed that from the years ago when I tried it but still it was done, now the success of the game is unknown to me though. Actually at a quick look kinda funny to see they have an adoption system where you and your spouse (another player) can adopt another player as a son/daughter. xD

[Mycow8me]

I could see an age bar implemented in the future that changes characters overall look, be a great diversity addition to characters. Only problem with that would be the shear amount of design work involved, age is a dramatic appearence changer though it also depends on how many age gaps are implemented. I could see teenagers/young adults battleing. Hell, lots of jrpgs and games do that. Dunno about kids though...

[Kosmos992k]

I could see an age bar implemented in the future that changes characters overall look, be a great diversity addition to characters. Only problem with that would be the shear amount of design work involved, age is a dramatic appearence changer though it also depends on how many age gaps are implemented. I could see teenagers/young adults battleing. Hell, lots of jrpgs and games do that. Dunno about kids though...

Would be easier to add lower settings to the height slider and a more youthful face to the face line up. Job done.

[Colorful]

Would be easier to add lower settings to the height slider and a more youthful face to the face line up. Job done.

I'm picturing a really short Roe with a Lalafell's face, it's like the opposite of WoW's Gnome.

[AlphaFox]

I think its funny people want to say no children for perverts but I can tell ya right now we have a lot already on the game. Honestly any type of person you can think of (cept maybe the amish lol) are on this game. Convicted felons, those pending, perverts/rapists/child molesters. Your not going to stop these type of people from playing these games and as I have said countless times already, if a person is acting childish and prancing around provocatively either report them or blacklist them. I can see some people wanting to play as child-like races just to be closer to the game, kids are most likely to pick child races as well cus after all whats better than being a child who is destined to save the world? Now should we see a 10yr old in skimpy swim suits? No, make it tasteful and let some gear be locked to race just like starter gear is. How do you handle the swimsuits? Just like some gear looks different depending on race, ding ding, we have our solution. Anything even close to risque alter the appearance to either add layers (like how they handled the outfits in Bravely Default for western release) or redesign them all together.

[Eul]

I wonder how roegadyn and highlander kids looks like o3o

[Kurogaea]

Umm....You are aware that there are homeless children in Iddylshire that fight and fend for themselves right? Even one of the children in Iddylshire hunt for food while his Father mopes around and ask random carpenters to help his son hunt. lvl 50 carpeter quest btw. Just so we're are on the same boat here, your still not comparing reality to a Final Fantasy game right? Child Soldiers in RL=ultimate taboo (no duh). Adults protect there young, of course, its a given, won't deny that, and I cant. Now with a record of games with kids that countlessly defend themselves against odds that will INDEED KILL THEM is immense, not giving any more examples, but I will point out this: If you have the ability to hold a sword in your hand and fight for what you think is right, who has the right to take away your freedom to defend yourself? Should a child stay there helplessly (in ff14) as they're parents are being mauled by a dragon? I doubt it. Look at Alphinaud and his sister.

[Kurogaea]

All they do is fight for what they think is right. I'm not asking to play as kids who don't know what war is, that'd be stupid. Those young enough to know whats going on, with knowledge somewhat close to alphinaud and and his sister. Maybe not like that little child miqote because I can just imagine how weird it'd look fighting a huge primal. We're asking for reasonable young warriors to play as. Now I'll give an example: Sora from Kingdom Hearts or maybe even Kairii, Zidane from FF9 or the princess (cant remember her name but she's a WHM).

This thread is really negative, so here's something slightly relevant and comedic for most audiances just to brighten up the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6LhPQ5ykb8