Why aren’t there brothels in ESO?

ArchMikem

kargen27 wrote: »

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

It's kind of telling that OP is most concerned about the lack of brothels. Most people in real life have never been in a brothel. But every single person, without exception has been in a BATHROOM.

may be even more telling how many players know where the brothels are located.

So much telling.

Unfortunately everyone knows there are parents who dont give a crap about that 'M' in the corner of the box and ZOS has to plan around that. We dont want more of that buzzfeed girl who said video games cater to the male fantasy on youtube.

Ankael07

Cyrodiil becomes one when ballgroups start playing

myskyrim26

Well... Actually, there are some... At lest one "legal" in Ebonheart, and a lot of others, hidden in the plain site...

Cundu_Ertur

Starlock wrote: »

Considering there is no evidence that prostitution is the oldest profession known to "man," the argument falls pretty darned flat. Then again, pretty sure this is just a troll thread.

Actually, scientists were teaching monkeys the concept of money. One of the female monkeys started turning tricks. This was at Yale in 2005.

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

It's kind of telling that OP is most concerned about the lack of brothels. Most people in real life have never been in a brothel. But every single person, without exception has been in a BATHROOM.

Have you not noticed there's a bowl and a pot on the floor in every bedroom? Or the stool, bucket, and book in a hidden nook in a dungeon? That's bathrooms. Actually pretty accurate, too: bathrooms as we know them didn't exist before the 19th century.

RebornV3x

because the devs were trying for a T or teen rating that's why the base game is bland at times

myskyrim26

Well...

tactx

Because everything in America isn't allowed. We're kinda behind the rest of the world in... well everything now.

Rain_Greyraven

tactx wrote: »

Because everything in America isn't allowed. We're kinda behind the rest of the world in... well everything now.

LoL I can tell you have never been to the middle east.

DjLadySarina

Mik195 wrote: »

And waaaay too many would be disturbed to walk in and see non-female strumpets. So no-win for ZOS.

Speak for yourself! I want to see hot male elf hookers!

DjLadySarina

Salvas_Aren wrote: »

For the same reason there are no children. I consider children obscene.

It's ashame you can't kill them in Skyrim, they should be in ESO and you should be able to kill them. Serves as a stress reliever!

Foxhearted

They're probably behind those locked off doors you see in every city.

rpa

I think there is a mod for Skyrim which makes children killable. And adult mods galore, including some so far out that I'm not sure it's possible to describe it within guidelines of this forum.

Banana

The servers would crash from the line

cyclonus11

Of all threads to be necro'd

RefLiberty

rpa wrote: »

I think there is a mod for Skyrim which makes children killable. And adult mods galore, including some so far out that I'm not sure it's possible to describe it within guidelines of this forum.

We all know that the Skyrim is still a selling title after all those years because it is a *** game now, powered with Nexus mods.

JD2013

There are.

Look upstairs in the Ebony Flask at Ebonheart, Stonefalls, and in the basement.

The House of Earthly Delights, Suran. - Talk to the young Dunmer woman near the door.

There might be more? Tamriel is just a little more discreet about it than GET IT HERE

Zephard

DjLadySarina wrote: »

Mik195 wrote: »

And waaaay too many would be disturbed to walk in and see non-female strumpets. So no-win for ZOS.

Speak for yourself! I want to see hot male elf hookers!

In Pa'lat that is exactly what you see in the mission. It is what you hire for a distraction.

Me, I think there is so much dialogue that has innuendos in them, the most obvious is the Guild Merchants calling out, "It's free to have a look!" But then I am kinda of that kinda of person. You just got to actual listen to what all those npc (particularly the non-mission related bystanders) say.

ArchMikem

I have no idea why my thread about an interesting questline suggestion gets me an Account Warning, but one about straight prostitution is still here.

Awesome.

The_Old_Goat

DBZVelena wrote: »

Because Americans consider that obscene and thus such things don't get included. just like toilets.

Got to love the fact that bigotry and stereotypes still exists at the end of 2019.

Araneae6537

DocFrost72 wrote: »

Would it be interesting to have them? Yeah. I don't see it happening. As others have mentioned, ZOS is based in the USA. Our culture is squeemish about nudity and sexual content, and that's a shame.

However,

There is nothing stopping someone from making a guild and using personal housing for such things. I imagine one night advertising in Riften would have you booked out for months

Danikat wrote: »

Partial answer: When the game was made it has a lower age rating. 16+ in Europe and similar ratings in other areas.

The age rating was only raised to 18+ when the Dark Brotherhood was added and it was possible to murder innocents for no reason (not just in DB quests, that's when they added the ability to murder random NPCs). Sure they could have added more mature content after that, but going back over the base game to add it in just because the age rating had gone up probably didn't seem worth anyone's time.

Agreed — this country is crazy. Join the Dark Brotherhood and brutally murder some innocent, okay, but have the option to pay an NPC for implied good times? Oh, no, that is horrible. 🙄 I don’t think that the game benefitted by being able to murder random NPCs, rather disturbing and immersion breaking when people do it out in the open, in the middle of town... Not saying that people shouldn’t be allowed to play villains, just that it should have to be more secretive or face worse consequences IMHO.

To me, it doesn’t make much difference that there are no brothels in ESO, but I see no reason why there should not be, where fitting. As others have pointed out, there were in Morrowind as well as those hapless Nords who had lost their clothing and other belongings... to a witch, yes, lol.

Edit: Reading the comments past the first page now, perhaps there are indeed brothels in Tamriel — I confess one of the inns in Elsweyr did strike me as being something along those lines. I haven’t traveled Tamriel enough yet to know of these other places and was just responding to the statement that there weren’t any. After reading some of the other comments, I do think that innuendo in such matters is more interesting actually. I did enjoy the implied romance/affair with Ahnassi in Morrowind.

Zephard

Why a brothel, when you have plenty of offers that don't involve the exchange of money?
The first time my wife hear an npc proposition me, she nearly feel out of her chair. (She also plays the game, and it was her first computer game to play). But then a couple minutes later her character got propositioned.

Then there is the guard who tells you to meet later, and she show you an antique riding crop.

nafensoriel

Haashhtaag wrote: »

This is a mature audience game and what happens in brothels is the oldest profession known to man. So it makes no sense why brothels don’t exist in Tamriel. On top of that it would make for great role playing experience. Please limit your feedback to constructive criticism.

You have never been to Vulkwasten or Riften then... Depending on the time of day it can be be straight up pornography.

BalmoraRatgirl

No thanks.

Mr_Walker

DBZVelena wrote: »

Because Americans consider that obscene and thus such things don't get included. just like toilets.

Mer don't poop, it's widely known. That's why they so often look angry/stuck up. Very uncomfortable.

Mr_Walker

Starlock wrote: »

Considering there is no evidence that prostitution is the oldest profession known to "man," the argument falls pretty darned flat. Then again, pretty sure this is just a troll thread.

Science hat on.

Ah, actually, the evidence exists for us in nature, many species of animals the female will exchange sexual favours for benefits.

Science hat off.

amapola76

Zephard wrote: »

Why a brothel, when you have plenty of offers that don't involve the exchange of money?

Because the kind of player who clamors for this experience in-game is usually someone who can't imagine it in real life without the exchange of money.

Darkhorse1975

I always just figured the Lusty Argonian Maid single handedly appeased the masses.

Grianasteri

Haashhtaag wrote: »

This is a mature audience game and what happens in brothels is the oldest profession known to man. So it makes no sense why brothels don’t exist in Tamriel. On top of that it would make for great role playing experience. Please limit your feedback to constructive criticism.

Firstly, I do not think ESO needs Brothels. It doesnt even have toilets. We can live without a great deal of the "real world" thanks, Brothels are not exactly high on my list of additions to improve immersion.

2nd, there are quite a few areas and story arcs which basically show prostitution is a thing in ESO, just not for players.

MajBludd

The real question is, why do you need this in the game? You know you can visit pornhub, right? Or, meet an actual gal or guy, depending on how you swing.

craybest

there are a few hinted ones, I wish it was a bit more explicit, without it being full on cringy. I trust they could do it allright.
also in general i wish there were some more adult things, including brothels, and more corpses around the world, craglorn has some, including animal corpses more and it's a nice view, seems like a wild and agressive zone I wish we would see hanged people, and dead bandits, other than just skeletons.