Family Matters

[Cedri]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_487287.html

Here is why you dont have baby raising in mmo's

Extremely relevant to this thread.

[fafangi]

As a matter of fact I rather like the idea. Sure, there will be some problems with making it adapted to a final fantasy(it shouldn't be too bothersome for example, well hiden sexual part etc...) but I think that for RP'er in particular this would be worth the while. As it has been said, our little american friend may be a bit problematic but, at least from what i have seen in game, most players i spoke with were 18+ so everything should be okay^^ anyway, no one want a 12+ game right?
After that, the children system would definitely have to be funny and not some tiresome and complicated stuff that eats all your playing time except if you want it of course.
An mmo is supposed to be something immersive and in many way it is a kind of second life that has more fantasy than the first( a lot more if possible^^) so this kind of idea could really add something to this game. Or so I think at least.

[3Jane]

Theres always been sexuality in FF. FF9 dagger gets her butt touched and zidane says "ooo soft" Women in thongs; ff12 and some of the originals had partial nudity. FF10-2 has alot of sensual/sexual content as well. Sexuality doesn't just mean sex.

It is intended to be implicit. That is the entire purpose.

[Colino]

how about we have work ingame where u choose the hours to work and get a payday at the end of the month,

I thought that's what guildleves were for.

[Soukyuu]

The topic of sex is very much present in the game, but in a more mature, subtle way, as has been mentioned (for instance, the miqo'te Path Companion is something of a nymph when it comes to your character - every sentence of dialogue she uttered was sexually tinged - I think there was even a line where she said something like "It's a pity I'm not a man you know, otherwise you'd know exactly how pleased I am to see you!"). Not that it was really offensive, just more for comic relief than anything.

I'm still waiting for that dose of gratitude she promised.... :P

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_487287.html

Here is why you dont have baby raising in mmo's

Yeah... and also why killer games have to be banned, because they make people kill, right?

Seriously though, it's rather frightening how addicted some people get. Why would you starve rather than take a break from a game? Or let your baby starve? The rest is just the press delivering what the majority wants to read: shocking, sensational material.

[Vilhem]

I'm still waiting for that dose of gratitude she promised.... :P

Yeah... and also why killer games have to be banned, because they make people kill, right?

Seriously though, it's rather frightening how addicted some people get. Why would you starve rather than take a break from a game? Or let your baby starve? The rest is just the press delivering what the majority wants to read: shocking, sensational material.

Well, to put it into perspective, Korea (and China) have huge huge markets for these kinds of games. One of my classmates from Seoul did a presentation on her country in class, and one of the main things she talked about is how Koreans train (sometimes professionally) for MMO's as if it was a professional sport...it gets very very intensive.

Scenarios like babies starving, unfortunately are probably more common-place than we hear about. There's also been killings and suicides related to MMO addiction in these countries. So putting this article into perspective should tell a story about countries that have problems with these sort of games, not what one game can do to a family.

The only thing related to this in the west I've heard of is a few years back where a lady let her son drown in the bathtub because she was too busy playing Farmville on FaceBook. She insisted she was "teaching him to be a man" by letting him bathe himself (I think he was about 3?).

[JillyBean]

To be fair the ridicolous requirements in XI are more realistic... lol

I have to disagree. The way marriage was originally implement in XI was ridiculous. A couple had to have a third-party chaperone who actually applied for the wedding and wait weeks or months to be approved and assigned a time/date/place. Years later I think it was changed and made "easier".

"Completing a quest" sounds perfect. I just want to be able to go down to the courthouse and elope if I want to.

[Keith_Dragoon]

This would be bad for me because my character is a man whore so all the child support I'd be paying to the lovely ladies of Hyperion would make the immortal flames look like a non profit organization.

[Riastrad]

I married a close friend in XI. I did it because her husband (then boy friend at the time) played a female character. She was very happy because she got the Rare/Ex dress before the marriage patch. But, if an in-game child had come of it, I would have found it very creepy and may have not done so. I don't think kids are my (or virtual selfs) kind of thing. lol

[Kyri]

This idea gets two thumbs up from me