Emote Idea suggestions and request... What Would you like to see?

[Destati]

That's doubtful because it would almost definitely contradict the game's content rating in many countries (such as my own country of Australia) where depiction of smoking on screen is considered "drug use", especially if the player character is allowed to do that, and thus would require a higher rating beyond "teen and up". As SE wants FFXIV to be accessible to as many players as possible, they're not going to do anything that would jeopardize that. So I'm sorry to say, you probably won't see that added.

Apparently in a past interview it was stated that it could possibly be implemented in the form of a "smoking candy" or something. If this is the case I really do hope they'll add it in whatever shape or form. Besides, we've already got all these NPCs holding pipes, not to mention it's the signature accessory of a certain Stormblood villain...

[Enkidoh]

Apparently in a past interview it was stated that it could possibly be implemented in the form of a "smoking candy" or something. If this is the case I really do hope they'll add it in whatever shape or form. Besides, we've already got all these NPCs holding pipes, not to mention it's the signature accessory of a certain Stormblood villain...

NPCs are one thing, it's when a player character can actually do that that the trouble really starts. The self-righteous 'moral guardians' start kicking up an almighty stink claiming that as it's 'interactive' it influences 'impressionable young minds' and thus should therefore be greatly restricted, if not banned, and the media, eager to sell a story, seizes on it and it all goes downhill from there.

The infamous 'Hot Coffee' affair with GTA San Andreas springs to mind as an example of this, although that was naturally not to do with smoking, it's the same basic idea. Something more adult that the media would only be too keen to blow completely out of proportion and then crucify SE for as "moral degenerance" (I must stress that I am completely on the side of players being able to make their own choices, I just don't want to see SE and by extension this game, suffer over something trivial as a smoking emote that more conservative and prudish members of society would be only too eager to seize on and demonize the game for.).

As for making a hypothetical smoking emote as a 'smoking candy cane', that's a whole different barrel of moogles entirely...