What is the reason behind Facial Expression emotes not being Persistent?

I have been asking this through various posts during this year, and can't say I've ever received an actual answer, so I figured I'd make a specific thread for this.

I clearly was not the only one to ask for facial emotes to be made permanent (or as the developers have baptized the sitting/dancing emotes, "Persistent"), but even after the introduction of wonderful static stances such as /changepose, the facial emotes were left brief and temporary.

I'd just like to know why, what makes it difficult to implement persistence to facial emotes, and if are the Developers considering to modify their lasting time sometime in the future?

cause if you make that face for too long it'll get stuck like that

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Originally Posted by Fuma

cause if you make that face for too long it'll get stuck like that

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Hmmm, I don't see how. The /straightface facial emote would bring your character back to the idle facial expression, so that prevents getting stuck on a certain facial emote.

http://i.imgur.com/0nn7Q.png

I can see a case for making them last longer, or letting us toggle their length (/smile 10, for 10 seconds or something), but persistent would just be creepy. Anyone who maintains a solid smile for longer than a minute is an unholy abomination and should be treated as such.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

Hmmm, I don't see how. The /straightface facial emote would bring your character back to the idle facial expression, so that prevents getting stuck on a certain facial emote.

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He was being sarcastic. You know when you were a kid and made weird faces? Adults never told you your face would get stuck like that?

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Originally Posted by Sebazy

http://i.imgur.com/0nn7Q.png

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I saw the pun, but I am trying to keep this constructive. Someone might've read that post and seriously think that was the answer to my question.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

I can see a case for making them last longer, or letting us toggle their length (/smile 10, for 10 seconds or something), but persistent would just be creepy. Anyone who maintains a solid smile for longer than a minute is an unholy abomination and should be treated as such.

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Right, but often times, to just so quickly return to a statue-like emotionless face can result in much creepier situations. This picture here would've looked a lot more natural if after the emote the character had a smiling expression as his "idle" facial emote.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7553/c2m.gif

Wow, I'm glad im not the only one who wonders this. It would go a long way for rping or just to give your character some "character" lol. I'd like to go around with the /taunt face on. Love my characters taunt smile. looks devilish like he is up to something lol. Hope devs forward this on. would be nice to haver persisting

I'd love to look angry all the time. I mean, I'm a highlander, damn it. My homeland got violated by the Garleans and those who aren't kissing their asses are squatting in a damn cave or working the streets of Ul'dah.