Where are the children?

Zusia211 · July 2015

I been wondering this...Where are the children in this game? Skyrim at least had some kids running around, but I yet to see one child in any town. I would have loved to take out a zombie child in one of the towns that was affected.

Bromburak · July 2015

Females are smart in this game.

UrQuan · July 2015

This guy knows where they are:

But he's not telling.

Waffennacht · July 2015

I personally hated the children in skyrim. "Im not afraid of you!" Just wanted to beat that twyrp with my shield

Bromburak · July 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

But he's not telling.

Come over, I have the "Oghma Infinium".

Slonekb05 · July 2015

they should have went Skyrim rout and made kids invincible. only thing i can think of is they did not want players to kill children.

UrQuan · July 2015

Bromburak wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

But he's not telling.

Come over, I have the "Oghma Infinium".

Yeah, sure... I fell for that line in the Vile Manse. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...

Akavir_Sentinel · July 2015

Thank you, we needed a 1,000th thread on this subject. ESO will never have children in it. I'm not going to bother explaining why for the 1,000th time.

UrQuan · July 2015

Slonekb05 wrote: »

they should have went Skyrim rout and made kids invincible. only thing i can think of is they did not want players to kill children.

Actually, you know what would have been kind of awesome? If they made kids invincible like the guards, and if you attack one of them all of a sudden a swarm of invincible kids runs up to you, surrounds you, and starts pelting you with stones from slingshots. Each individual stone doesn't do much damage, but you get swarmed and just constantly pelted until you die a humiliating death at the hands of little kids...

Well, it would amuse me anyway.

lathbury · July 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

Slonekb05 wrote: »

they should have went Skyrim rout and made kids invincible. only thing i can think of is they did not want players to kill children.

Actually, you know what would have been kind of awesome? If they made kids invincible like the guards, and if you attack one of them all of a sudden a swarm of invincible kids runs up to you, surrounds you, and starts pelting you with stones from slingshots. Each individual stone doesn't do much damage, but you get swarmed and just constantly pelted until you die a humiliating death at the hands of little kids...

Well, it would amuse me anyway.

make this happen ZOS

Draxys · July 2015

Ugh please no, begging for "immersion" things has already ruined too much in this game, don't bring annoying-ass kids into this

Zusia211 · July 2015

Can have a quest with a vampire kid and when you enter the main boss room to take him out there can be a circle of kids chanting "one of us"

DenMoria · July 2015

Dead. I ate them all.

Athas24 · July 2015

Nobody said the kids needed to Say anything... Not having them makes the world more depressing though for sure. I am also a fan of the kid swarm idea haha! Reminds me of the Chickens from Zelda.

Ethromelb14_ESO · July 2015

Zusia211 wrote: »

I been wondering this...Where are the children in this game? Skyrim at least had some kids running around, but I yet to see one child in any town. I would have loved to take out a zombie child in one of the towns that was affected.

It's for that very reason they haven't added children... Because you're not allowed to kill children - even zombie versions. Doing so would be controversial and make problems for developers in the ratings department.

Bromburak · July 2015

Oh_Skrivva · July 2015

I don't see how having children in game will break immersion. If anything it'll add immersion. Obviously, making it so that we can't kill them is a given. Although, I do like the being slayed buy kids with rocks if you attacked them is amusing. What if the kids that appeared looked like the kids from the "children of the corn" movies and gave you a death stare, lol. On the note of vampire kids. Anyone remember Babette from the dark brotherhood in Skyrim. She was a vampire child... Atleast in appearance, she was apparently the oldest member of the dark brotherhood and was supposedly at least a 100 years old. I also liked the quest in Skyrim when we answered the little boy murder contract for the dark brotherhood to kill his abusive foster parent in the orphanage. When you did all the kids in the orphanage rejoiced and made funny remarks about how the witch was dead and such. Cool quest

TheShadowScout · July 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

This guy knows where they are:

But he's not telling.

He... he... hentai??? O.O

I still think all the NPCs heard player characters were coming, and quickly hid all their kids in secret basements!

On a more serious note, yeah, having children just run around the cities and such would add a level of immersion. Yeah, having them murderable would be a problem, but that could be easily solved with making them auto-dodge any attack, and run off screaming for the guard whenever someone does take a swing at them, plus incurring a big bounty for daring to try and kill a kid...

Also, there are several "save the kid" quests that end up with the "kid" in question being a younger sibling at best. One of them goes with an "yeah, my mom still treats me like a child even though I am grown now..." dialouge, which works that once... but the others... especially those where its somewhat hard to imagine a grown person was incapable of finding their way home... eh...

Buuut, the powers that be decided against kids when the game was first released, trying for a lower rating I presume. And when the rating got later raised, they didn't bother to refit kids. Despite many people noticing this flaw in the world depicted by this game. Maybe someday they will, maybe it will never happen. Time will tell.

Kaitona · July 2015

Turn on voice chat when you're in a city and you'll hear plenty of children. I have voice chat muted to preserve my sanity.

Psychobunni · July 2015

Zusia211 wrote: »

I been wondering this...Where are the children in this game? Skyrim at least had some kids running around, but I yet to see one child in any town. I would have loved to take out a zombie child in one of the towns that was affected.

You answered your own question @Zusia211

ESO has a wide range of players, and many are not okay* watching other players running around slaughtering children, albeit pixel ones, even zombies.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · July 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

Slonekb05 wrote: »

they should have went Skyrim rout and made kids invincible. only thing i can think of is they did not want players to kill children.

Actually, you know what would have been kind of awesome? If they made kids invincible like the guards, and if you attack one of them all of a sudden a swarm of invincible kids runs up to you, surrounds you, and starts pelting you with stones from slingshots. Each individual stone doesn't do much damage, but you get swarmed and just constantly pelted until you die a humiliating death at the hands of little kids...

Well, it would amuse me anyway.

Would TOTALLY pay Crowns for this.

Akavir_Sentinel · July 2015

If there were children in ESO, I can tell you exactly what would happen. First, you would have the "immersion" and sociopath crowd that would be crying about not being able to kill them. Then you would have players who live in a perpetual fantasy world complaining about not being able to adopt children and have them follow them around or train them in battle. Then you would have players who would whine about not being able to create a child character to play. Then you have players who would strip down naked and dance/grind on children in towns.

Long story short, people in general are the reason why ESO does not, and will not, have children. It's far less of a headache for Zenimax to simply leave them out than putting up with all the crap that would be involved in having them in the game.

AhPook_Is_Here · July 2015

If you have seen some of the stuff that goes down around the inns in Ebonheart you wouldn't want any kids around anywhere.

Shimmer · July 2015

I asked this same question when I was looking for some for a video lol. Weird huh?

thesongoftimeb14_ESO · July 2015

If they do add children, I will be the first one to open up a Planned Parenthood.

RedTalon · July 2015

Children might be hurt in some way in the game, so instead of having npcs in the game who are children they don't have them.

Solves legal problems in some countries, and keeps people from complaining about childern that are gods and untouchable.

And solves space issues on unseeded things.

Just my two crowns

Dahkoht · July 2015

It's an untalked about evil that plagues all the lands. There's a huge dingo population in Tamriel.

GreySix · July 2015

They all went ... somewhere else.

Bromburak · July 2015

Akavir_Sentinel wrote: »

If there were children in ESO, I can tell you exactly what would happen. First, you would have the "immersion" and sociopath crowd that would be crying about not being able to kill them.

Confirmed in Skyrim, kill mods were the first and most succesful mod.

Players can do what they want in single players at home, but imo the value of Skyrim is much more than killing. And MMOs like ESO better appreciate this. This is not a shooter with narrow minded maps to kill every subject that has a heart beat.

Magdalina · July 2015

Did you see the amount of homosexual couples all over the game(I don't have anything against them, it's just amusing and IMO a bit overdone)?=P I swear that's 3 out of every 4 families I help! Where'd children come from?

UltimaJoe777 · July 2015

Zusia211 wrote: »

I been wondering this...Where are the children in this game? Skyrim at least had some kids running around, but I yet to see one child in any town. I would have loved to take out a zombie child in one of the towns that was affected.

Back in the 1st Era children discovered the meaning of life and gained immortality. The guards feared they would one day grow into fearsome overlords and enslave man and elf kind so they consumed the children until none were left, thus gaining immortality themselves to this day. 2 ages later the immortality wore off though as children began returning and the same cycle shall repeat but since we never played in the 5th age we were unaware.

Inb4 someone posts "cool story bro"