Yes we need children so we can ignore them as immersion dictates .

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

Yes we need children so we can ignore them as immersion dictates .

Pretty much this. Why waste resources on things that are just going to be ignored? The fact that people don't even acknowledge this 'break' in 'immersion' should tell you, OP, that it's a trivial thing to ask. If you want kids in a game, play Skyrim or something.

It's a video game who cares if you can blade of woe kids. Made me mad that games would even make kids invincible.

It's hypocritical to say the least.

But I get it..people are way to sensitive..even about art

dwemer_paleologist wrote: »

i hope we never see children in eso.
hated them in skyrim and would hate them in eso just the same.

...unless they were MY Nord Dovhakin's kids. All six of them were so well behaved. Absolute pearls compared to those 3 obnoxious, Imperial royal turds up in Dragon's reach.

My PC's most diligent was Sophie. Never could my PC ask for a more insightful daughter. Especially after he came across her performing the Black Sacrament. As DB Master, he plans on having her officially join the order when she's a little older. But for now, she needs to practice with all those deadly, jarred rood infused daedric daggers he keeps gifting her. So that she will make him proud the day she sends Braith's soul to meet Sithis.

And then there is his precious Lucia. Her hard life as a pauper and orphan on the streets are completely forgotten.She's always the first one to greet him whenever he gets home. And the one who'll chase him around the house until he runs out of stamina so she can demand money. At which point, my winded TG Master resignedly hands over all his gold (which is usually some 2000+ septims worth). Lucia will make an excellent TG member when she grows up. She certainly has the street smarts for it

No matter what anyone says, I could never pass up on Lucia or Sophie. No matter how many kids I chose to adopt in my games.

That being said, kids would seem a bit awkward and out of place in ESO towns, villages and cities. But is even more awkward being able to have a spouse--yet not have children? To enjoy the realism of keeping a variety of pets from domesticated dogs/horses to the exotic daedra Clannfear cooped up in your tiny tavern/inn apt room---yet not have at least one kid living there?

IMO, best solution would be to be able to adopt kids, but restricting them to your homes and residential properties (like Skyrim). So they'd never leave your residences and can't follow you everywhere.

Before reading this thread I never even realized that there were no children in the game. It just does not matter, at least not to me.

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Tandor wrote: »

Judging by the frequency with which this topic is raised, there seem to be an awful lot of gamers concerned if there aren't children in their games. I honestly can't say that it has ever bothered me. My sense of immersion in WoW, for example, isn't enhanced by the kids that run around in Stormwind or who have lost something under the water in Redridge Mountains.

I think it creates a bit of an opportunity though if you have them grow up eventually in later builds of the game- Anduin being an example (whether you like him or not). It is a good point too- I would assume they'd be immune to damage to avoid ratings issues (as they are in previous Elder Scroll games I think?), so I don't see any reason not to have them as part of the ambiance, especially for a game series as detailed and with as much attention to ambiance and creating a believable world as this IP has always been.

Still, it's not a huge deal not having any, hardly game changing.

I have played Skyrim and felt they added to the environment. Same with children in other games such as WoW or the Witcher and so forth. Being able to save them in a quest or see their interactions in towns.

There are children but they are kept hidden away on a different continent to protect them from the rampaging adventurers who would torture and kill them just because they are sarcastic little snots. Face it, the writers at Betheesda/Zenimax do not know how to write children that are engaging and acceptable. Judging from the voicing in Skyrim they also have a tin ear when auditioning child actors. Best they stay hidden away, I think. I kind of wish they would send the sheep over there. it's kind of sad to see a field full of white lumps of wool.

It IS immersion breaking that there are no children in cities and towns and I suspect the REAL reason for it is because no one wanted to take the time and pay the money to design children of all the different races. Their exclusion is simply a cost cutter. That said, in the previous TES games the children WERE mostly awful and annoying to the point I understood why the mod that lets you kill them is so popular. However, I would be all for them taking some of the sweet gamble box cash and adding them to the game as long as they DON'T make them rage inducing. It's bad enough to have unkillable guards lipping off to me all the darn time... having a bunch of snot nosed brats doing it would be doubly annoying.

In a world were one misstep with a mudcrab can end in death, I'd say people tucking their children away in safety is both immersive and lore-friendly.

I don't want side quests where i have to go find little Billy because he was playing near the wayshrine and accidentally ended up in another realm...

An unexpected amount of hate for the pixel children.

Ley wrote: »

An unexpected amount of hate for the pixel children.

Not hate. It's looking out for their well being, actually.

If they implemented children in game, they'd be obligate to turn off immovable and turn on mount collision, you know, to teach the little ones to look both ways?