DEV REQUEST (again): The Emperor's New Shield

...People need to learn to take a "No" from the dev-team once in a while. They have explained several times that it isnt gonna happen and WHY it isnt gonna happen. You have small shield options you can glamour. Go on and dream, but realise that you might not dream the same dream the art/dev-team is dreaming.
Maybe I'm alone with this option but I consider a game a piece of art aswell and in this case they made it clear that its also a design-choice NOT to give us an invisible shield and we should respect that - they explained it, they said "no", stop crying and begging and let them have their "freedom of art".

Want a tank without a shield but with a sword? Play DRK.

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Originally Posted by Vidu

...People need to learn to take a "No" from the dev-team once in a while. They have explained several times that it isnt gonna happen and WHY it isnt gonna happen. You have small shield options you can glamour. Go on and dream, but realise that you might not dream the same dream the art/dev-team is dreaming.
Maybe I'm alone with this option but I consider a game a piece of art aswell and in this case they made it clear that its also a design-choice NOT to give us an invisible shield and we should respect that - they explained it, they said "no", stop crying and begging and let them have their "freedom of art".

Want a tank without a shield but with a sword? Play DRK.

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And we have freedom of speech, get over it SE Dev groupie. -_-

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Originally Posted by Kurogaea

And we have freedom of speech, get over it SE Dev groupie. -_-

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Freedom of speech is the right to articulate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. not the ability to say whatever you want on a business' forum lol.

I can actually see the aesthetic benefit in an invisible shield that deflects in the same way as they do currently. The shield is still there, just invisible. We have invisible everything else (except most weapons) which is classed as acceptable but an invisible shield is frowned upon. We are in a realm of magic & myth, it is actually strange that a magical invisible shield *doesn't* exist in the lore.

I'd agree but only cus it is actually still there, just a see through coat is on the shield.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Freedom of speech is the right to articulate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. not the ability to say whatever you want on a business' forum lol.

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I wasn't talking about the law, but the freedom to speak aloud and post said opinions on forums. Am I wrong on that lol?

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

I can actually see the aesthetic benefit in an invisible shield that deflects in the same way as they do currently. The shield is still there, just invisible. We have invisible everything else (except most weapons) which is classed as acceptable but an invisible shield is frowned upon. We are in a realm of magic & myth, it is actually strange that a magical invisible shield *doesn't* exist in the lore.

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Where're my invisible WHM, BLM, SMN, SCH, and AST weapons?

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Originally Posted by Kurogaea

I wasn't talking about the law, but the freedom to speak aloud and post said opinions on forums. Am I wrong on that lol?

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Well, I never forbid you to speak or censored anything you said? I just voiced my opinion aswell which is that we could let the devs be devs for once and dont ask again and again about stuff they already made a choice on and even explained this choice. Thats like asking your parents for a dog again and again after they explained to you they cant have one because your mom is allergic.

Well actually freedom of speech isn't allowed in a private institutions zone of ownership. Free speech laws don't apply to Square Enix forums

I think the problem with the emperor's new shield has always been an issue with the animations looking really strange without the shield. Block, Shield Lob, etc. Take of the shield and it looks kind of dumb.

This is why I think they have said no in the passed. Creating new animations takes time and they don't want to offer something that looks bad because inevitably someone will say, "Its great I can hide my shield but my animations look dumb. Please fix SE".