Suggestion - Gender equality "Battle Stance", "Victory Pose" and weapon idle emotes

[Doozer]

I want them poses.


Sign me up, give female Drags that Kain pose.

Oh yeah! I mentioned DRK but I forgot the DRG pose, even though I actually play DRG. I would love to have the female one instead. Having my weapon standing up like that would be super cool instead of just tucking it next to my leg.

The more you homogenize genders, the more boring things get.

Except it doesn't homogenize anything, it just creates more options for uniqueness and creativity. Giving all options to players regardless of gender won't make them all look the same, it will allow them to be more original with what they choose to combine together and how they design their character.

It's the same as the argument for taking job restrictions off gear; sure it might be weird seeing a BRD in tank gear or something, but if you can believe it, it doesn't mean everyone will just wear the same stuff. They'll just have more to choose from.

[Gaethan_Tessula]

It's the same as the argument for taking job restrictions off gear; sure it might be weird seeing a BRD in tank gear or something, but if you can believe it, it doesn't mean everyone will just wear the same stuff. They'll just have more to choose from.

Exactly, doing this only increases the number of possible combinations available to players for their character between race, gender, job, gear, and emotes.

The combat idle poses are a pretty major presentation of character presentation, at least relative to other emotes. Furthermore, as others have pointed out, many of the differences don't even seem to map strongly to gender expectations/stereotypes, especially for the melee DPS and tank DoW classes.

I always liked the subtle way you could change your character's aesthetic feel in Dark Souls via the Reversal Ring, and was always a bit disappointed it ate a ring slot instead of being a system toggle.

[Canadane]

Except it doesn't homogenize anything, it just creates more options for uniqueness and creativity. Giving all options to players regardless of gender won't make them all look the same, it will allow them to be more original with what they choose to combine together and how they design their character.

Limitations drive creativity.

[Nezerius]

Limitations drive creativity.

While this statement is true, it doesn't really apply to the topic stated in the title of the thread.

The battle stance/victory pose emotes aren't too different from each other (as far as I know). It wouldn't really hurt "creativity" for a female RDM to be doing collar part of the victory pose emote, instead of the hair flick part.
Likewise, the weapon idle stances just involve holding a weapon differently. Personally, I'm a big fan of FF4 and Dragoons, yet I can't use the famous Kain pose due to the simple fact that I happen to be playing as a female character.

[Imbrium]

While this statement is true, it doesn't really apply to the topic stated in the title of the thread.

The battle stance/victory pose emotes aren't too different from each other (as far as I know). It wouldn't really hurt "creativity" for a female RDM to be doing collar part of the victory pose emote, instead of the hair flick part.
Likewise, the weapon idle stances just involve holding a weapon differently. Personally, I'm a big fan of FF4 and Dragoons, yet I can't use the famous Kain pose due to the simple fact that I happen to be playing as a female character.

Thiiiiiis!!! Why am I locked out of the iconic dragoon pose bc of character gender? That's silly SE. Let me cycle between them.

[Doozer]

Limitations drive creativity.

Limitations force you to get creative in order to create things with the limited things you have. Greater freedom gives you more options and variety to be creative and to create something unique. Don't be daft. Limitations when it comes to creativity are never a boon.

[Nariel]

Limitations force you to get creative in order to create things with the limited things you have. Greater freedom gives you more options and variety to be creative and to create something unique. Don't be daft. Limitations when it comes to creativity are never a boon.

And greater freedom give the oppotunity to just be lazy. New races? Why bother creating new pose for each gender when you can just staple all the already existing one.

+ its not unique if everybody have it.

I like having my own unique way of putting my glasses back on my nose.

[Duskane]

And greater freedom give the opportunity to just be lazy.

what does that have to do with more variety in poses