Will the emote Ballroom Etiquette - Apocalyptic Charades (Sundering) be presistent?

Dear support Team,

I've pre-ordered the Hydaelyn & Zodiark figure, however I can't find any information on whether the Ballroom Etiquette - Apocalyptic Charades (Sundering) will have a presistent howering/flying idle animation just like Omega's Simulation F/M does.

Could you confirm that the Sundering emote has a presistent howering state at the end and if not is it possible to implement it later?

I would also like to know, it seems very odd to create an emote whose animation perfectly ends in a hover/float and then simply interrupt it. I've heard several people opt to not buy the figure due to the video showcase of the emote showing us that the hover/float is interrupted.

There was a reddit post where someone contacted SE in regards to this. The response was that it is.

"Based on the videos showing the emote in action, the character will do the action continuously then float in the air."

Which someone replied "doesn't inspire much confidence" meaning SE customer support based this off of the showcasing video and not seeing the 3 characters dropping down at the very end which I was guilty of doing when I first watched it. But lets hope they're referring to another video only they can view and its true. Hopefully this issue will get some traction and we get a solid answer.

I hope it is the case, and customer support has more videos and information then the public. It would be such a waste not utilizing it, since the floating part of the emote already ends in a perfect loop. Lets see if we get a confirmation here too...I am fairly certain half of the people only buy the statue because of the emote, having a confirmation on the presistence would definitely boost sales for SE!

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Originally Posted by TiamatRuneaid

I hope it is the case, and customer support has more videos and information then the public. It would be such a waste not utilizing it, since the floating part of the emote already ends in a perfect loop. Lets see if we get a confirmation here too...I am fairly certain half of the people only buy the statue because of the emote, having a confirmation on the presistence would definitely boost sales for SE!

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it doesn't seem like they have more videos and information in the reddit OP

Being honest, from what it looks like, the float doesn't loop which is really sad. As people have said, it's different to how the Omega emote works apparently.

Either hope for a change or expect it's not persistent. I really hope it does loop, it's gorgeous :)

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Originally Posted by Runar_Eheno

Being honest, from what it looks like, it doesn't loop which is really sad. As people have said, it's different to how the Omega emote works apparently.

Either hope for a change or expect it's not persistent. I really hope it does loop, it's gorgeous :)

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The floating part is soo pretty and gracefull, I want it to loop :( it would be such a waste to not make it presistent

I really hope it's persistent and also changed to account-wide. There's just no reason to change how these statue emotes work. Also I finally got a pre-order in on one of these things and I really don't want a sour experience. Easy change, devs, please do it :)

I massively agree! I love it, too D: So pretty to watch

I hope we will know more with todays patch!

Someone posted a response from the support team on another thread, saying the main emote won't loop, but the character will stay floating.

Again not sure how concrete/clear this is, hopefully it gets properly clarified soon as will be nice to know ^^

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Originally Posted by Runar_Eheno

Someone posted a response from the support team on another thread, saying the main emote won't loop, but the character will stay floating.

Again not sure how concrete/clear this is, hopefully it gets properly clarified soon as will be nice to know ^^

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OMG that is exactly what I wanted ^^. Could you link us that thread?

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Originally Posted by TiamatRuneaid

I hope we will know more with todays patch!

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Lol! I would but I see you already found it now aha. We are on hopium but let's see what happens

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Well I did contacted the support center and basically they don't know it either:

"Thank you for contacting the Square Enix Support Centre.

Thank you for your interest in the Hydaelyn & Zodiark figure.

Unfortunately, we do not have any specific information regarding the persistent animation of the Sundering emote.

We can only advise you to review the official forums and post any questions there.

If you have any specific suggestions regarding the emote after receipt, please do not hesitate to contact us again"

300+$ product from a AAA company and nobody can clarify on what is actually being sold. Smh.

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Originally Posted by Vizi

300+$ product from a AAA company and nobody can clarify on what is actually being sold. Smh.

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Not even a shock anymore. And look, despite the lacking clarification, it still sold out in minutes. This is the absolute state of the gaming industry.
Looking at the video, and speaking purely as someone who'll wind up staring at other people who use this, I hope the actual flashy animation part doesn't loop and they just keep the float. I can't even imagine how annoying and gaudy it would be to let people loop a whole ass summoning emote while they're afk irl. Random floating dudes is also pretty obtrusive and over the top though, and if I'm being real I think it's gross how all these payment exclusive emotes let you literally look down on people, but w/e

I think there was some confusion about the emote and also some CS maybe didn't quite understand what was being asked. We didn't want to know if the WHOLE emote would loop. We wanted to know if it would keep characters floating afterwards since the end of the showcase video showed them dropping down. In hindsight it should have been "does it stay floating?" instead of "does it loop?".

Not expecting the float to last based on the evidence shown. It would only serve to invalidate the Omega emotes, which don't have giant flashy animations in addition to being persistent.

I still hope we will stay floating at the end. Why animate the complete howering loop for it then not use it? Seems silly to me ^^'

Greetings,

The “Sundering” emote included with the FINAL FANTASY XIV Meister Quality Figure - Hydaelyn & Zodiark will be implemented as a persistent emote where the character will remain floating with their weapon drawn. Once the player makes any movement or action which would cancel the emote, then the character will land on the ground.

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Originally Posted by Okieeomi

Greetings,

The “Sundering” emote included with the FINAL FANTASY XIV Meister Quality Figure - Hydaelyn & Zodiark will be implemented as a persistent emote where the character will remain floating with their weapon drawn. Once the player makes any movement or action which would cancel the emote, then the character will land on the ground.

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Is it possible to tell us if the dev team has stated this to you? The emote as of now just has them fall to the ground, so would be nice to know officially that it was re-worked since the twitter video.

Fantastic. Thank you for the info!

Thank you for the information! This is just amazing news ^^

This *is* awesome ^^ Gonna be pretty

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