The thread about children playable deleted?

[Gilraen]

and some countries you can't play with female characters whats ur point?

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!

I have an idea what countries those are, given that self same countries also prohibit women from walking around with their faces in the open, but such laws are harder to enforce given you can't tell unless the players actually tell you. It's this internet gaming culture that spawned the term g.i.r.l. after all. Violence, though, is not as hard to discern. It's right there, playing out on your screen, in oft vivid detail. Toss children into that situation a line is crossed.

[Judecca_Penombra]

I feel like the bigger question here is, Why are we defending the option? Are we so naive to believe that there aren't people out there who would come to a game and role play an underaged character in order to sexualize them? The answer is, of course, there are and I believe that might be the main reason. Heck, I'm sure there are some sickos out there who roleplay Lalafell that way. Besides that why would we defend a point they have given an answer and a reason behind it, Its for legal reasons, don't push it, it won't change a thing.

[Talia_Hailwind]

Can't go to it any more. Its gone. Why? Is it because of the pedo bear pics?

I'd just like everyone to know that I've not be banned nor warned about the pedobear pictures I posted nor did they have a reason to, the post got nearly 100 likes, I believe the reason it was deleted was because of people dragging the thread into a legal ages and children in games argument.

[IchirouHayami]

This thread has gotten way out of hand... the fact is SE has said they wont set up playable child characters because of legal reasons simple as that if they don't want too they don't have too.

jesus... Plus don't you people think that kid's face is actually kinda creepy, like something from a horror film creepy?

[Lexxuk]

Logically speaking, we have a race of cats, cats tend to live short lives, lets say 15 years, there is no where that states Miq'ote are the same longevity as Hyur, or that the tall eared freaks don't live to be 3-400 years old, or that the Au Ra are not actually a few thousand years old, so, if the cats have the same life span as normal cats, then they are actually around 4-5 years old currently, and the roe? Well, they actually look their age, so lets put them at 200. So we already have a child race, the most sexualised race (before Au Ra) in the game......

[Talia_Hailwind]

or that the tall eared freaks don't live to be 3-400 years old,

Excuse me?! What did you say you dragon faced heretic?!

[Cendres]

meanwhile I can play as Ellie in last of us? or Hope in FF13? Or Link in zelda? I think its more of the Skirts and underwear.

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.

I think it's weird that every thread about this jumps straight to "pedophilia." Like that's the first thing that everyone thinks of whenever children are mentioned.

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

[Rhysati]

This whole idea that this has anything to do with violence against children is laughable. Hell, take a look at the history of JRPGs. I would bet you that the overwhelming majority of JRPG characters are under 18. It pretty much became a standard trope for the main heroes of JRPGs to be kids who need to save the world.

Lunar? Kids. Earthbound? Kids. Breath of Fire? Kids. Secret of Mana? Kids. Illusion of Gaia? Kids. Persona? Kids. etc etc.

It's incredibly common to have children be the heroes that save the world.

[FallenArisen0990]

For the purpose of the game, all PCs (Playable Characters) are 18+. Honestly tho, I look at my Au Ra and she looks 15 lol. SE just says 18+ so it bypasses all the legal nonsense. The same is done in other games but I hate when they do that because it throws the sequels off a bit. DoA just does it the best by saying Ayame and Kasumi are unknown in age.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

This whole idea that this has anything to do with violence against children is laughable. Hell, take a look at the history of JRPGs. I would bet you that the overwhelming majority of JRPG characters are under 18. It pretty much became a standard trope for the main heroes of JRPGs to be kids who need to save the world.

Lunar? Kids. Earthbound? Kids. Breath of Fire? Kids. Secret of Mana? Kids. Illusion of Gaia? Kids. Persona? Kids. etc etc.

It's incredibly common to have children be the heroes that save the world.

I don't think many people here are saying we can't play as kids due to violence. It's mostly the sexual implications because you know someone is going to try to skirt around the rules a lot just to see what they can get away with.