Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-207.61.101.254-20160421133006/@comment-31077845-20170519200937

They let us marry people, and we can build our own houses. That's already going down a dangerous road, so if we have childbirth next thing you know people are going to want childcare, then family life, then the ability to retire from adventuring with all your money and live life as an overweight old person who loves sitting around drinking mead and eating horker loaf, then...you get my point. If anyone wants that I think it would be better to contact EA about the possibility of a fantasy themed sims game rather than trying to re-engineer elder scrolls.

Plus kids suck (I was actually on the children page to discuss how absurd it is that we can't kill children. Government watch list here I come!), so seeing as this is supposed to be a fantasy setting the last thing anyone needs is a screaming baby and a spouse who's constantly arguing with us. "You were supposed to watch the baby last night, why weren't you here? Oh, you were out 'adventuring' late again, huh? What, adventuring into the depths of that skank Lisette you lecherous pig?!".

Not everyone has to participate, yes, but there's limited time and money that goes into making a game, meaning for every baby-making feature targeted at a semi-limited subsection of players that's another possibly more widely appreciated feature that never made it in and another batch of bugs/rough patches that never got smoothed over. So basically whether a feature is optional is of little consequence: we're playing a game, the whole thing is optional. That doesn't change the fact a game can't be everything at once.