"Most Gentlemanly" pose

[Noxifer]

I think if a patch came out that gave a new emote to everyone except race-X, everyone in race-X would pretty much be thinking "what the heck?".

You mean like how every race has had unique hairstyles in a patch, except for midlander hyur? When the hyur got their hairstyle (long hair + dreads), they were only accessible by highlanders. Not midlanders. They had to wait until the hairstyle unlocked for all the other races.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Losing an emote is losing an emote- its not the end of the world but it does make the total evaluation of highlander different.

If you seriously think losing one single unique emote animation makes "the total evaluation of Highlander different", then you have some problems that extend beyond just Highlanders not having a special unique /pose anymore (even though they technically still do). Considering an entire thread was made for all you people to complain about it as if it's some great travesty, I do believe for some people this is somehow the end of the world or the end of the "Highlander appeal". You all may wanna work that out somewhere outside of an MMO's forums.

[Skyl1n3]

If all races got the male Miqo'te /sit there'd be "qqqq" from the cat people as well.

[Felis]

There are these things called eyebrows. We don't have them or a pose now!(hint: give us eyebrows)

Then you would be no Highlander anymore, but just a big Midlander.
This is like asking Moon Keepers to have the Sun Seekers eyes.

To SE: I see some options to resolve it
1. Give Highlanders a new unique /pose, so they also get a new emote from 2.5 and not one they already have
2. Give Highlanders at least the /pose of the Midlanders, so it would be the Hyur /pose

And don't give racial /pose as a quest reward to other races anymore, do a complete new emote for this.
I don't want to see male Roegadyns doing the female Miqo'te /pose, as an example ^^

[Shougun]

Then you would be no Highlander anymore, but just a big Midlander.
This is like asking Moon Keepers to have the Sun Seekers eyes.

To SE: I see some options to resolve it
1. Give Highlanders a new unique /pose, so they also get a new emote from 2.5 and not one they already have
2. Give Highlanders at least the /pose of the Midlanders, so it would be the Hyur /pose

And don't give racial /pose as a quest reward to other races anymore, do a complete new emote for this.
I don't want to see male Roegadyns doing the female Miqo'te /pose, as an example ^^

I think the thing about the eyebrows however, is that Highlander men do have eyebrows we just ritually shave them off every morning. Its not so much a physiological difference as a cultural one (which is why "if" they made movements about movements and not about identifying a race (as they are now) I'd be ok with everyone being able to do everything, even though that would probably make some really creepy moments)

like:

I don't want to see male Roegadyns doing the female Miqo'te /pose, as an example ^^

lol

The minor damage has been done, I'd still like my eyebrows and in my own opinion I found your offerings more than fair- but it is good that they said they'll consider this sort of response in the future. We're currently with races who's identities are excluded to make the little behaviors represent the race, and I can see your argument on eyebrows in this- I just .. really.. want.. my brows.. :P. For this quest reward though, SE took a unique turn by stopping that sense of restricted identity, and I expect the exact same thing to happen if they did it to any other racial animation. At least if it was an animation people liked and felt associated them to their race, I imagine for some male Roe animations no male roe would care about losing... eheheheh-haha.

[Kelg]

Then you would be no Highlander anymore, but just a big Midlander.
This is like asking Moon Keepers to have the Sun Seekers eyes.

To SE: I see some options to resolve it
1. Give Highlanders a new unique /pose, so they also get a new emote from 2.5 and not one they already have
2. Give Highlanders at least the /pose of the Midlanders, so it would be the Hyur /pose

And don't give racial /pose as a quest reward to other races anymore, do a complete new emote for this.
I don't want to see male Roegadyns doing the female Miqo'te /pose, as an example ^^

Well when there is a "big midlander" option with eyebrows let me know. So yeah, just add an eyebrow option(it's not like highlanders couldn't just stop shaving them anyway, it's nothing like your miquote arguement). lol

[Yamimarik]

You mean like how every race has had unique hairstyles in a patch, except for midlander hyur? When the hyur got their hairstyle (long hair + dreads), they were only accessible by highlanders. Not midlanders. They had to wait until the hairstyle unlocked for all the other races.

Midlanders did get a unique hairstyle, it was snuck in with the Elezen's, kind of like how Lala's was snuck in with the Miqo'tes hairstyle.

[Evergrey]

I can't understand all the QQ over some animation. I would not even care if all races could do each others /pose. (Infact I would enjoy that more then how it is now.)
It's not like in real life different "races" have their own /pose that no one else can do.
Sure there are cultural dances and such, but anyone could imitate those with practice.

And remember: This is a game! So relax and try to have fun instead. If you can't just because of some animation being used by others, there are plenty of games where people can feel "special".

[Shougun]

I can't understand all the QQ over some animation. I would not even care if all races could do each others /pose. (Infact I would enjoy that more then how it is now.)
It's not like in real life different "races" have their own /pose that no one else can do.
Sure there are cultural dances and such, but anyone could imitate those with practice.

Absolutely, but clearly in FFXIV there are restrictions so you can't mix that view with this one and then blame people for feeling there was a change in dynamics. In eorzea races are bound by animations, Earth view is not incorporated.

If they change it, that would be ok imo - it would also give Highlanders excuse to stop shaving their eyebrows, per using an Earth view and not Eorzean. Also, we'd get half breeds, which would also be pretty cool. But thats not true right now, so please try to understand that "its just a movement like dances in the real world" is not exactly apply-able to the game, because the game is not following real world thoughts.

And again, please stop all this QQ comments. Is it honestly the truth that if someone has a complaint that they are crying or find what they dislike an end of the world disaster? It has been stated a few times that we, or most of us, do not view this as end of the world material - just a bit annoying. "QQ" and like comments are meant to be insulting.. Why - did the OP hurt anyone?

[Evergrey]

I dunno if the OP hurt someone, I'm just personally tired of people complaining about everything in todays gaming world when something does not fall into their liking And yes I know that it's not EVERYone, but many do.

And like Grekumah said in his comment.

...Since Hildibrand is a very popular character that players want to emulate, we introduced his special pose so they could have fun pretending to be their favorite detective...

Who doesn't like to imitate their idols?
Heck even I said something like that on the second page.

You should be happy. Because now every race can /pose like the race they all secretly look up to.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I did not even know that this /pose already existed untill this thread opened.