Quote Originally Posted by Joven View Post
Based on the fact that they give you a sample pool of emotes during character customization to show off the race/gender's personalities. If you went through that whole process and clicked accept then you were drawn to that race/gender as they were presented. Deciding after the fact that they somehow don't conform to how you want to play them in your head is wholey on you.
As you said, you're only given a small sample of emotes, not enough to be certain of anything. You're also given no indication of how emotes work or if you can change them later on. They just play while you're testing voices. Your point doesn't really hold up. People change their characters after creation because the editor often doesn't provide enough information to make a decision in the first place.

And this isn't even considering what the player is trying to accomplish the first time through the editor. Are they unaware of the RP potential of FF14 and just trying the game after seeing good ratings? If so they might not pay much attention to emotes and mannerisms only to much later find out that they can be significant when it comes to character expression. There is no way to truly evaluate a character short of playing it. When new players ask for advice when attempting to fantasia I can almost grantee that someone will suggest testing characters as alts before using the fantasia. There would not be a need if what you said was accurate.



The same could be said for your anecdotal "many more players" you've allegedly spoken to about this. At least the forums are a somewhat measurable metric, unlike your hearsay. I could just as easily say I've talked to many people who think the idea of allowing each gender to use the other's emotes is dumb.
Which is why I brought it up. If we're going to use the weakest of evidence it becomes pretty easy to support any conclusion you want.