Children

itehache · July 2016

It would be nice to see some npc children running around the towns

Tyrion87 · July 2016

Actually there are children in Tamriel and they are called 'Bosmers'.

oxxalejandroxxo · July 2016

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Are you serious? A lot of us think the fact there is no kids seen in Tamriel at the moment is quite immersion breaking, and we really hope you guys could add NPC children into the game ASAP.

JD2013 · July 2016

oxxalejandroxxo wrote: »

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Are you serious? A lot of us think the fact there is no kids seen in Tamriel at the moment is quite immersion breaking, and we really hope you guys could add NPC children into the game ASAP.

Did it break immersion that they were in no ES game apart from Skyrim?

ZOS_CoriJ · July 2016

oxxalejandroxxo wrote: »

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Are you serious? A lot of us think the fact there is no kids seen in Tamriel at the moment is quite immersion breaking, and we really hope you guys could add NPC children into the game ASAP.

This is not an official stance on the subject as I do not have insight or effect on the decision made.
Just sharing some NPC history.

Rohamad_Ali · July 2016

After you've raised a few Cubs of your own you may find the immersion in Tamriel quite pleasant ...

Wreuntzylla · July 2016

Stick them in player housing. That will limit exposure to child atrocities.

Lord_Draevan · July 2016

Necrelios wrote: »

This is the best one

Resfeber · July 2016

This actually reminds me that my first realization was when a quest NPC mentioned his daughter and I'd imagined a child. It suddenly hit a switch in my head like "Waaaait a minute here..."

Still, it doesn't ruin my experience either. It'd be a nice addition.

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

Stick them in player housing. That will limit exposure to child atrocities.

I was going to say the same thing actually. That it'd be cool to see with housing coming along.

@Rohamad_Ali ... I feel like there's a story here. The implication sounds tragic.

Rohamad_Ali · July 2016

Resfeber wrote: »

This actually reminds me that my first realization was when a quest NPC mentioned his daughter and I'd imagined a child. It suddenly hit a switch in my head like "Waaaait a minute here..."

Still, it doesn't ruin my experience either. It'd be a nice addition.

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

Stick them in player housing. That will limit exposure to child atrocities.

I was going to say the same thing actually. That it'd be cool to see with housing coming along.

@Rohamad_Ali ... I feel like there's a story here. The implication sounds tragic.

It's a mixture of Honey I shrunk the kids and E.T. . Children get into everything and bring home things they shouldn't all too often

AverageJo3Gam3r · July 2016

It's a business decision folks. If they include kids, some nutjob will find a way to do an emote to a kid npc that is inappropriate, then screenshot it and start passing it around. ZOS already has their hands full chasing cheaters, do you really want them wasting resources investigating and banning these nutjobs? If you were a business, would you want that negative publicity associated with your game (and potential lawsuits)? Nope.

Sorry it breaks your immersion but it is the right decision on ZOS's part to exclude children NPCs.

Fallen_Ray · July 2016

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Then again that might not be true at all. Since M'aiq is a liar, hence his name.

Acrolas · July 2016

There are no children because then people would ask for children pets in the crown store and those discussions would get really, really, really awkward.

carljokl · July 2016

Well there has been a lot of lively discussion provoked by this. I thought the topic would have come up before, so much so I searched the form for "Children" before posting this discussion. The only results that I could see were references to the name of a quest.

FleetwoodSmack · July 2016

... I'm just going to drop this here.

Robbmrp · July 2016

Children were removed in Beta to try and reduce the game lag.....When that didn't work they moved onto deer and torch bugs.....

Cronopoly · July 2016

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

It's a business decision folks. If they include kids, some nutjob will find a way to do an emote to a kid npc that is inappropriate, then screenshot it and start passing it around. ZOS already has their hands full chasing cheaters, do you really want them wasting resources investigating and banning these nutjobs? If you were a business, would you want that negative publicity associated with your game (and potential lawsuits)? Nope.

Sorry it breaks your immersion but it is the right decision on ZOS's part to exclude children NPCs.

Glad you made that point on what might not be acceptable and why, yet the game centers around MURDER...processing,... processing.... Let that stew for a bit. It's a rated M game. Having invulnerable kids running around just makes sense and many other MMO's have done it with no public embarrasment or outcry.

Zenimax can choose to do so or not, doesn't matter in the end. The original Skyrim had kids. The Internet was certainly around and guess what...no big scandal that lingers.

It actually limits several potentially engaging story lines regarding kidnapped kids, lost kids and your toon saving them etc...
whatching certain ones grow up during the game to do great things maybe in a DLC etc. Without kids the immersion can be lacking of sorts in my opinion, or better stated could be "More".

Lord_Draevan · July 2016

IndyWendieGo wrote: »

... I'm just going to drop this here.

KILL IT WITH FIRE

wayfarerx · July 2016

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

After you've raised a few Cubs of your own you may find the immersion in Tamriel quite pleasant ...

This. Some of us like going to Tamriel to escape the unfettered screaming and endless waves of poop that dominate our lives here on Earth.

Gargath · July 2016

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Was it told by M'aiq or his son M'aiq?

TheShadowScout · July 2016

The NPCs of Tamriel had ample warning that -gasp- Player Characters were coming, and thus all hid their children in cunningly camoflaged cellar dungeons!

(And I am not saying that just because I am from austria... )

GivvumBoane · July 2016

Cronopoly wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

It's a business decision folks. If they include kids, some nutjob will find a way to do an emote to a kid npc that is inappropriate, then screenshot it and start passing it around. ZOS already has their hands full chasing cheaters, do you really want them wasting resources investigating and banning these nutjobs? If you were a business, would you want that negative publicity associated with your game (and potential lawsuits)? Nope.

Sorry it breaks your immersion but it is the right decision on ZOS's part to exclude children NPCs.

Glad you made that point on what might not be acceptable and why, yet the game centers around MURDER...processing,... processing.... Let that stew for a bit. It's a rated M game. Having invulnerable kids running around just makes sense and many other MMO's have done it with no public embarrasment or outcry.

Zenimax can choose to do so or not, doesn't matter in the end. The original Skyrim had kids. The Internet was certainly around and guess what...no big scandal that lingers.

It actually limits several potentially engaging story lines regarding kidnapped kids, lost kids and your toon saving them etc...
whatching certain ones grow up during the game to do great things maybe in a DLC etc. Without kids the immersion can be lacking of sorts in my opinion, or better stated could be "More".

There we go add unkillable children and make them all guards. Think Little Lamplight. Kill two birds with one stone. Add children and a reason for guards to be unkillable.

Runs · July 2016

oxxalejandroxxo wrote: »

ZOS_CoriJ wrote: »

"M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun."

Are you serious? A lot of us think the fact there is no kids seen in Tamriel at the moment is quite immersion breaking, and we really hope you guys could add NPC children into the game ASAP.

Could the reason actually be because of immersion? Perhaps we are not really where we think we are.

I wonder what the effects would be on a mortal, traveling in and out of a place where time has no meaning, would be. One could go crazy with delusions of how things could have been done different. Perhaps we are the delusion created by the true "vestige" Cadwell.

One quest in Coldharbour "The Endless War", has made me wonder about it. After the series is finished, if you talk to Cadwell he mentions having always wanted to play the game, but now that we(I, us, the vestige) have there is no need.

Perhaps the devs went M. Night Shyamalan on us and are waiting till the game is about ready to die to give us the twist.

Tipsy · July 2016

Robbmrp wrote: »

Children were removed in Beta to try and reduce the game lag.....When that didn't work they moved onto deer and torch bugs.....

Since deer and torch bugs have been returned to the game,it might only be a matter of time before someone frees the children from the basement too?

Resfeber · July 2016

After being in the basement so long they're probably stale and unfit. Let us just breed new ones.

Tipsy · July 2016

yes,and this time with some interracial love

Lysette · July 2016

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

Bethesda has put children in their games before, even much more violent games than this one.. They just code the kids to be invulnerable

And they made them a nasty bunch as well - which is rather annoying - i do not want to have this here as well.

BlackguardBob · July 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit she hears that the children they have all the candy?

In that case this one would very much like the children to be returned to Tamriel.

For no specific reason at all you understand yes.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I love your posts. I can hear your voice in my head when I read them lol

And ofc, all children like to believe in Santie Claws.

rhapsodious · July 2016

Lysette wrote: »

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

Bethesda has put children in their games before, even much more violent games than this one.. They just code the kids to be invulnerable

And they made them a nasty bunch as well - which is rather annoying - i do not want to have this here as well.

Another wanderer, here to lick my father's boots. Good job.

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Lysette · July 2016

rhapsodious wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Daemons_Bane wrote: »

Bethesda has put children in their games before, even much more violent games than this one.. They just code the kids to be invulnerable

And they made them a nasty bunch as well - which is rather annoying - i do not want to have this here as well.

Another wanderer, here to lick my father's boots. Good job.

Or that one "you are new around here, so I'll go easy on you. But don't get on my bad side".