Make emotes more customizable, please? No more race/gender lock?

I would prefer them to not make everything the same. I like having gender and race uniqueness.

Nope. They already got rid of Race/Clan benefits. I don't want them to remove what makes each race/gender unique. As it is, I wish every race/gender had it's own auto-attack/weapon drawn animations.

I love racial locks in games personally since it adds a lot to the immersion for me, but I agree that I'd personally see all genderlocks removed in the game (races, animations, gear) since it only adds more options, and I just dont get why all men have to be masculine and all women femenine. Heck, irl there's tons and tons of femenine men and masculine women

ye sure, i would love any of my non-lalafell-male chars to do the /psych emote of lalafell-male, so they all look like they're taking a huge dump right where they stande, great idea mate

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Originally Posted by Chiami

Every race has it's own set of how various emotes work, from /sit and /kneel to /blush and /dance.

For some that might be all fine or they don't even care at all about emotes, but honestly... imagine a character like everyone's favorite scary Dotharl, Sadu... being all cutesy-moe, like the female Au Ra emotes force us to be if we use them as female Au Ra. Eeeeehhhh.... I think Sadu wouldn't react nicely to that idea :p

On the other hand, why can't a big Roe guy not use "cutesy" emotes of the type currently restricted to female Au Ra, if it fits the personality?

I think the current system is very limiting (while the vastness of emotes in the game absolutely amazing), and therefore would like to petition to make emotes more customizable.

Remove the "race/gender lock" for them, and let us pick at least one "set" of emotes, so that my female Au Ra can have lets say the emotes currently "attached" to female Elezen, since she is a more elegant lady. Or my Miquote girl the emotes currently attached to male Au Ra, because she is a bit a rough lady ;).

Of course even more awesome (but I'm aware that might be a nightmare to program) would be that we can pick one type for every single emote: /blush like currently female Elezen, but /sit like currently female Highlanders, and /psyche like currently male Au Ra :D

Let us be who we really are, and express ourselves accordingly :)

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Omg is so funny use songbird dance in your Roe you will love it.

Oh boy that sure sounds great, while we are at it could we make the following also universal:
-Height.
-Voices.
-Miqo'te's ears/tails.
-Au'ra's horns.
-Viera's ears.
Who needs race uniqueness when I can finally make my female-voiced male 7 ft cat-rabbit-demon Lalafell from hell.

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Originally Posted by KarmaLad

Oh boy that sure sounds great, while we are at it could we make the following also universal:
-Height.
-Voices.
-Miqo'te's ears/tails.
-Au'ra's horns.
-Viera's ears.
Who needs race uniqueness when I can finally make my female-voiced male 7 ft cat-rabbit-demon Lalafell from hell.

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I still find it confusing that the side asking for locks says they want it for the sake of uniqueness. I feel like uniqueness and breaking homogeneity is the entire point of removing the locks. Right now your character's "personality" is fully defined by your race. It's bland, limiting, and well just not unique. Even the devs know this because they won't play by their own rules. They give important characters their own personalities and mannerisms because it would look silly for them to be robots like everyone else. Some characters even define themselves by being the opposite of what they should be were they player characters (SCH job quests for example). Why can't player characters do the same?

A convincing world that feels alive should be important for MMO's, and part of that is recognizing individual diversity. The overly simple and heavy handed approach of making everyone of a particular race or sex a clone of everyone else in their group just feels like a really poor way to build a world.

It’s not really race uniqueness when everyone in the race does the same thing. I’d like some option in the personality. For example, the knee- slapping laugh of the hyur does not fit my character at all, I’d love to change this.

Wanting locks dose not mean we don't want to be unique, I'd love more features for each race, more faces and customisation, more personal emotes like each race fighting differently with the same job for flavor by having stylised emotes/animations.

However if you just unlocked everything you kill uniqueness as much as you'd enable it, sure people would come up with some cool looking things but it would also render the races pointless, what's the point of Au Ra if everyone can have scales, horns and tails? Why are there Roes if everyone can be super tall and buff? If any race can suddenly be a potato why do we have lala's?

I like the races feeling different there's no advantage to picking one and there shouldn't be, but I like there being flavor reasons for each and I'd like to see more, more racial armour and weapons, more emotes per race.
I'd also love to see half races, it could help add some of the cross over that people crave but it should come at a price to allow those half races to also feel special like how and Elezen Hyur would have Elezen ears and features but body type and Hyur height.

TLDR: Less giving everyone everything, more giving everyone more to call their own.