Not needed at all. Don't really care
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Not needed at all. Don't really care
In all seriousness I don't see why they would change how the portraits work already, the photo has to show your face to be accepted. And I don't to much care for the "think of the kids" argument as thats the parents job not mine. If Miqo butt in 2Bs bottoms is a no no for you you're playing the wrong game
The best part about this feature is that it's optional. I think a decent amount of people seem to forget that people like different stuff. A cool feature for one person is obnoxious for another. I like the plates and I'd be ok with them being expanded further, provided that any system that uses them is also optional.
Whether you like them or not, it seems like there are already plans to add them to more things, though not commendations specifically. From the patch notes:Makes it sound a lot like they'll appear at the start of things like dungeons at some point in the future, but are only in PvP right now.Quote:
Such portraits are used to introduce players at the start of various duties. As of Patch 6.1, they are used to introduce combatants at the beginning of Crystalline Conflict PvP matches.
Sounds like a fun idea at face value, and I do wish they would adjust the commendation system so that you can still vote for players even after they've left the dungeon. However...
I'm not sure I like the idea of Adventurer Plate design or character portraits influencing commendations, either positively or negatively. Granted, players can already commend for pretty arbitrary things like character name or appearance, but I feel like this would just exacerbate that and bring it to the forefront. It could even tacitly suggest that voting for "best Adventurer Plate" is actually the intended purpose of comms.
I think the commendation idea is pretty cool.
Unfortunately it is already that way. By design I might add. Since the game refuses to measure performance of players at the end of the dungeon commendations go to either people who were pleasant and chill, glamours, or someone who hard carried so much it was impossible to ignore.
Also, since commendations don’t serve a huge purpose I think the developers intend them to be for whatever they want the users to interpret as commendable, and if a player put the extra work into making a real cool plate then maybe that is the drop that tips the scale.
So I don’t necessarily view that possibility as an issue and rather as a fact of life. Commendations can happen for anything.