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Whoever is outraged at the idea of having children dying in a video game must be right, because everybody knows children can`t die in real life.

-OR- People draw lines at what sort of "realistic" fucked up shit they want to see in their entertainment media. My wife, for example, cannot watch any show that involves child abuse or abandonment. It's a BIG button for her. She'll break into tears at the suggestion, and if the situation continues, she'll disengage entirely. Adults horribly maimed, gore, blood everywhere, she eats that stuff up, but children is where she draws the line. She's similarly disturbed by abuse to animals; When I told her that my cougar had miscarried three times due to injuries, she said she wasn't sure she wanted to check the game out.

Rape is another similar button. Others may draw the line at cannibalism, or incest, or child molestation.

Aside from the investment:reward ratio of adding children to the game (how much Fun is added compared to the coding time it takes to do it) Tynan does have to decide where he wants to draw the line. Obviously killing, dismemberment, cannibalism and incest are fine with him (in a fictional setting, presumably......) and he's obviously not too worried about the segment of his potential audience that may dislike these things. Killing children may or may not cross his line, though, and it's obviously something that may turn off some of his audience.

Honestly, given all of that? I don't think we're going to see children in the game, regardless of whether or not Tynan is personally bothered by it.

So because someone else is offended by the thought of wargs devouring children corpses then no one else can have children being devoured in the game either? And why the double standard? Who is arbitrarily deciding what can and cannot be in a video game? It is like someone comes up to you and say "slavery and organ traffic is cool, but having children dying is immoral!" What would tell that person? I would tell her to fuck off and let me play with children (that doesn`t sound right) and tell her to fuck off again. And who is this person drawing lines? Is there an entity who can speak for the whole community and tell Tynan and the modders that children getting eaten by wargs is wrong? I don`t think so.

At the end of the day however, I too think this will hardly ever be added, either in the official game or by mods, because it is easier to avoid these topics than it is to deal with them, and that is a fucking shame, I wanted to have a little freezer full of dead children for my wargs, who wouldn`t?

Children dying will bring too much outrage from the gamer community at large

Not sure how much this is a concern, but I read something like this in the official forums.

Whoever is outraged at the idea of having children dying in a video game must be right, because everybody knows children can`t die in real life.