Child-like characters?

[myahele]

Like they said, its mostly for ethical reason. Its different with NPCs since they can at least control what happens to them.

Among some of the feedback we received were requests for playable characters that resembled young boys and girls. Unfortunately, this is one request we cannot consider for ethical reasons.

With every passing year the debate surrounding moral and ethical issues in games grows more intense, and we do not want to present children in battle or in pain—and posing such characters sexually and taking screenshots and so forth would be expressly forbidden.

In any event, regardless of what our players did or did not intend to do, the fact remains that if a review board were to evaluate such content and determine it were unacceptable, we would be forced to suspend FFXIV’s service. We ask that you keep these factors in mind as we strive to abide by the changing standards of the times. "

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...24#post4975024

[Siete]

Like they said, its mostly for ethical reason. Its different with NPCs since they can at least control what happens to them.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...24#post4975024

Understandable.
If people can go as far as to sexualize Hrothgar and Lalas I can't even want to start imagining what they' do

[Enla]

Understandable.
If people can go as far as to sexualize Hrothgar and Lalas I can't even want to start imagining what they' do

Someone was banned for posting sexually explicit images of a modded-in game Ryne on their twitter back at the start of Shadowbringers among other young looking characters. Sadly that person basically proved SE's stance for them then and there.

[Ftail]

Someone was banned for posting sexually explicit images of a modded-in game Ryne on their twitter back at the start of Shadowbringers among other young looking characters. Sadly that person basically proved SE's stance for them then and there.

This reminds me of the time my friend got mad at me and didn't talk to me for a day when I told him I ship Ryne and Thancred together and that they'd make a really cute couple.

[Enla]

This reminds me of the time my friend got mad at me and didn't talk to me for a day when I told him I ship Ryne and Thancred together and that they'd make a really cute couple.

Given that Ryne is literally 12-13 and they were making explicit porn of the character using SE's assets...?

[Ftail]

Given that Ryne is literally 12-13 and they were making explicit porn of the character using SE's assets...?

Ok, maybe that was a bad comparison to make. I concede.

[Caitlinzulu]

Given that Ryne is literally 12-13 and they were making explicit porn of the character using SE's assets...?

Well to me Ryne is like 18, just maybe I can see her age at 16. There is no way I can believe a 12 year old can fight like she does. she may appear younger because she has been imprisoned for most of her life. so she never got a chance to learn or grow

[SenorPatty]

Well to me Ryne is like 18, just maybe I can see her age at 16. There is no way I can believe a 12 year old can fight like she does. she may appear younger because she has been imprisoned for most of her life. so she never got a chance to learn or grow

In animu, age is just a number when wielding supernatural powers. So is weight, combat experience, etc.

[Enla]

Well to me Ryne is like 18, just maybe I can see her age at 16. There is no way I can believe a 12 year old can fight like she does. she may appear younger because she has been imprisoned for most of her life. so she never got a chance to learn or grow

This is Final Fantasy where age has never been a factor in how well someone can fight. Relm from FFVI being the perfect example given that she's 10 when she joins your party. Gau from the same game is only 13 and that game's resident Blue Mage. Pretty much every Final Fantasy, especially the modern ones, don't see age as a factor for fighting prowess. FF8 in particular has entire paramilitary organizations and wars being run by 17 year olds and lower, who have heaps of combat experience due to being raised in that environment.

You can pretend she's older all you like but she's portrayed as a pre-teen in the story and in form. Likewise SE certainly doesn't ban people for posting explicit modded screenshots of other characters due to issues with child exploitation either. If they did a whole slew of other accounts would be shut down given the prevalence of modded graphic imagery for characters like Lyse, Yshtola, and more.

[Ftail]

Well to me Ryne is like 18, just maybe I can see her age at 16. There is no way I can believe a 12 year old can fight like she does. she may appear younger because she has been imprisoned for most of her life. so she never got a chance to learn or grow

The problem with Ryne isn't that a 12 year old can fight like she does, loads of younger people have been contributing to fighting in all of the FF stories. The problem is with her model, it simply doesn't look like a preteen should. It looks like they took Minfilias model shrunk it down slightly and reduced the breast size and slightly changed the face. The same problem appears with Thancred, but in the opposite direction. Thancred doesn't look as old as he should be, I'm younger then him in real life by a good margin but he looks like he needs to be asked for an ID every time he buys alcohol.

Edit: I think it might have to do with the graphics or something, because the images I linked don't even look like they are taken in the same decade.