Family Matters

[Ramesses]

Not a good idea... definitely not. As mentioned by some people on the first page, it reeks of a Fable rip-off mixed in with some Sims sequences... not cool, not original, not Final Fantasy.

Most importantly, it will be a problem for SE trying to establish a PG 12 rating for a game that has these elements... suddenly, we're talking about creating a rating of 17+ and there goes their foothold in creating a whole customer base in the 12 to 16 age group. Not good for business, not good for image.

Please return to playing Fable if these sort of issues are that important to you... this is Final Fantasy.

[Sancta]

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.

[Warlock]

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.

yeah but all that stuff makes some come up with threads complaining about lewd gear

[Sancta]

Yeah i may have started something dangerous.

[Vilhem]

Sex has always been present, but it has never been an actual upfront topic. It's always been through implications, and through skimpy clothing.

Take the miner miqo'te for example. You have to put on your sexual innuendo cap on to really see what they say (and for some of us, that cap is forever on >_>)

If they add the ability to breed ingame, that will definitely open up a different can of worms, one I'm not so sure I'd like to see in XIV, which is why I brought up the idea of adoption.

[Sancta]

Yeah ff is pretty sly as a fox when it comes to those sexual type stuff. not upfront and blunt, but hidden. You'd have to have the knowledge. Just like Shrek is a family movie, with adult type stuff, kids wouldn't understand.

I like the idea of adoption, those Gridanian orphans need a home! Cept i'd hate to parley with them again in hide n' seek ;p

[Enkidoh]

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.

As for marriage/child rearing in game, I only think such a concept could only really be viable if there was some kind of permadeath in the game (namely, your character dies and their offspring takes up their mantle and weapon, and so on, which would open up interesting possibilities for the game's direction, but ultimately lead to more problems than would be worth it).

It would also smack far too much of The Sims with a bit of Fable thrown in for good measure (not to mention the whole issue with younger players being exposed to such concepts and the resultant PR nightmare it could generate), so yeah, such a concept would not be desirable or even workable for FFXIV as has been stated.

[Yrusama]

I think you can do a lot of this with a chocobo, perhaps create special cutscenes when raising a chocobo with your bonded partner..

This is all the game needs. How much effort would raising said child take? We wouldn't want the younger players to get the wrong impression about child raising, would we? Even XI's system, as annoying as it is to visit the stables every day, still doesn't compare to the challenge of raising a baby.

Granted I don't have kids myself, but I can't help but notice how stressed a household of 6 adult Sims can get when there's even 1 baby.

[Laperouge]

I just wanna reshape my character in to Miquo'te male cat and marry some handsome male Roegadyn and have happily ever after...

[dragnorak]

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

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