Customizable gender identity? (for emotes)

[Fukuro]

I think Yoshi-P himself stated that one of the reasons why races take up so much of resources is because of their emotes. Every new race means not only gear that has to be worked on and fine tuned to fit every race but also new emotes that have to be adjusted to every single race and gender. This means making every emote/stance able to every race/gender results in a HUGE amount of work. Not only for the emotes we have, but also those coming in the future.
I‘d personally prefer resources going into new emotes than adjusting older ones to the other races, which probably takes up about the same time.

[Dewslam]

I mean the point is that I do have legitimate professional experience in animation, 2D and 3D, as well as multiple years worth of experience with most popular and well known 3D modelling and animating software; as well as practical use in game design and know what I'm talking about - though I'd rather not dox myself by delving any further. You, however, throw out baseless accusations based on the principle of "nuh-uh".

[MagicPeanut]

Personally, I’m completely against this. I hate how male and female Lalas are practically indistinguishable at times as it is. This would just make me question why we even have different races/genders at all to begin with. If you want a certain emote, play that race and gender. Not everything has to be unisex. That would just make customization boring, imo.

[HyoMinPark]

I prefer some of the male unsheathed weapon poses over the female ones, but I don’t want to play a male character because…well. My character is female. So I’m down for unlocking certain poses and emotes.

[rachcouture]

More options make everyone happy, and it's not like tweaking animation rigging is the hardest thing to do in the world. What it has to do with gender identity, however, I have no clue.

[Eriane_Elis]

More options make everyone happy, and it's not like tweaking animation rigging is the hardest thing to do in the world. What it has to do with gender identity, however, I have no clue.

There's over 100 animations, 2 genders, 8 races. Hrothgar will have female support sometime in the future -- this is known. That's at least 800 animations to "rig", not to mention whatever system they need to add to help players avoid doing girly or manly poses by mistake. It would take months to do so no, it's a terrible idea for pleasing almost nobody.

[Alaray]

I'd be cool with the gender-unique cposes/weaponstances to become unisex. There's a lot of both I like and I'd easily use a female GNB stance over the male one, and ditch the fem DRG stance for the male one. Or emote animations.

It'd definitely be nice if there was the space/time to do it.

[Jennah]

"Inclusivity in emotes" would be allowing users to change the few emote-texts that have pronouns.
e.g. "Jennah expresses HER fervent approval" to "Jennah expresses THEIR fervent approval".
Which is ... considering that it's (probably) not that much code to allow as an option, not a terrible idea.
(Even though I'm not interested, and don't personally know anyone who would be.)

Unlocking animations by gender is more just "I want more animations for my character" - which is fine.
But it's, you know, several orders of magnitude more difficult to program, and has almost zero to do with "gender expression" or "inclusivity".

[Juzjuzz]

More options make everyone happy

It doesn't make everyone happy lol only thoose who are interested and agree. Others will obviously not be listened to. Who cares about them ?

More choice for everyone sounds like a big illusion to me.

[rachcouture]

It doesn't make everyone happy lol only thoose who are interested and agree. Others will obviously not be listened to. Who cares about them ?

More choice for everyone sounds like a big illusion to me.

You must be fun at parties.