Orphan adoption

[Settiesama]

That said, the Warrior of Light is pretty busy, or at least scarce. Heck, we straight up vanish for at least a week of in-game time on a regular basis!

Cool, we can have Goku parenting skills.

[ErryK]

I have a game for you, OP: The Sims.

As long as we have people doing ERP (and lalas) i'm against everything child related.

Lalafell are adults. Quit playing them off as children when they friggin run an entire city (See: Lolorito)

[Vexander]

Lalafell are adults. Quit playing them off as children when they friggin run an entire city (See: Lolorito)

Just because playable Lalafell are adults does not mean people do not RP them as children unfortunately. Not to sound like an elitist, but as a RP'er, I've left Free Companies where that was allowed just because I don't care for the drama that will inevitably arise when either that RP'er is revealed to have been ERP'ing on their child-character, OR, they're more the attention-seeking sort who go around making huge firestorms when someone solicits them for ERP. Yeah, its great to know who to avoid and all, but most RP'ers I've met in that situation just like the attention from being a, 'Victim.'

[ErryK]

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That's not a fault of SE though, if SE made a system for their game, they are making the system for the in-universe definition of a Lalafell, which is a short-stature adult being which can happen to look childish when made to in a certain way.

So as far as SE is involved, Lalafell are adults. So yes, as far as this situation of Lalafell being children is involved, it's the playerbase at fault... which is quite unfortunate.

[Vexander]

That's not a fault of SE though, if SE made a system for their game, they are making the system for the in-universe definition of a Lalafell, which is a short-stature adult being which can happen to look childish when made to in a certain way.

So as far as SE is involved, Lalafell are adults. So yes, as far as this situation of Lalafell being children is involved, it's the playerbase at fault... which is quite unfortunate.

I don't disagree at all. I just don't feel like giving the playerbase more opportunities to engage in that kind of conduct is conducive to the image of the game, the company, and the playerbase.

[Vivi_Bushido]

I have a game for you, OP: The Sims.



Lalafell are adults. Quit playing them off as children when they friggin run an entire city (See: Lolorito)

Didn't the recent Christmas event also taught us that children Lalafells are the same size as the adults? Meaning you wouldn't be able to tell the difference of their age solely on their appearances.

[Stitches1974]

Didn't the recent Christmas event also taught us that children Lalafells are the same size as the adults? Meaning you wouldn't be able to tell the difference of their age solely on their appearances.

That is correct. Lalafell children are the same size as the adults.

[Kazrah]

Didn't the recent Christmas event also taught us that children Lalafells are the same size as the adults? Meaning you wouldn't be able to tell the difference of their age solely on their appearances.

According to the lore, only lalafells are able to discern the age of other lalafells.

Back to the original point, wouldn't it make more sense just to do the whole "student/apprentice" thing with a chosen retainer? When you think about it, that's already a thing anyway since their max level can't be higher than your max level of whatever job or DoL class the retainer is, and we can already gear them up. The only thing missing is an incentive to focus on that further into things like stories and so on.

[Chiramu]

Children's Day in FFXIV, might be a fun event. It always was fun to bring the little orphans around places of the world in WoW for Children's Week. The developers tend to make holidays based on the Japanese tradition though. I don't think this would be as fun if it were a one off quest, the orphan turns into a minion and you forget about it .

[AsukaHamano]

I'm 100% sure YoshiP has brought this up before and said that due to laws (In Japan in particular) about protecting children online and the presence of ERP, they dont plan to add an adoption system into the game.
Reference to a Live Letter back in the first few months of HW (cant remember which though)