So... Portraits

[kayll]

The go to solution in FF14 for a player potentially abusing something is simply to restrict everyone so abuse isn't possible, instead of punishing players that can't play nice.
Once I noticed it for the first time, I started seeing it everywhere in how they design things that are put into the game.

But yeah the portrait system is a mess still after half a year of it being in the game, baffling to me.

[ChrysOCE]

What cracks me up is the puritans and pearl clutchers who are so worried about sexuality and expressions of sexuality, but they are generally perfectly fine with violence and expressions of violence. Not to mention the pure hypocrisy of having sexually suggestive themes and outright stuff of SA and rape in the game. But noooooo, players having lewd adventure plates is a step too far. The horror.

[Fyrebrand]

What cracks me up is the puritans and pearl clutchers who are so worried about sexuality and expressions of sexuality, but they are generally perfectly fine with violence and expressions of violence. Not to mention the pure hypocrisy of having sexually suggestive themes and outright stuff of SA and rape in the game. But noooooo, players having lewd adventure plates is a step too far. The horror.

I don't know what you mean, FFXIV is just a wholesome children's game.

[CidHeiral]

But... that thing is obviously just a weapon handle or something in reality, though.

The point was that their attempt to play it off as "oh well they're just suggesting the act so it doesn't count," as if there's any other way to interpret a dude clearly designed to be jerking off, is disingenuous.

It also seems to be a demonstration of the futility of portrait restrictions, when something like this is allowed but OP's portrait isn't.

It was from before they dropped the hammer. Portraits like that are why OP is now dealing with a difficult system.

What cracks me up is the puritans and pearl clutchers who are so worried about sexuality and expressions of sexuality, but they are generally perfectly fine with violence and expressions of violence.

Ah yes, the puritan accusation and whataboutism. Indeed, anyone who doesn't jump for joy at terminally horny people shoving their unhinged behavior in everyone's face, in a game rated for 13-year-olds and up, must be a puritan.

Not to mention the pure hypocrisy of having sexually suggestive themes and outright stuff of SA and rape in the game. But noooooo, players having lewd adventure plates is a step too far. The horror.

Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe can understand the difference. Either you're making excuses to justify your own unsavory behavior to yourself or the concept is actually beyond you. Either way, I don't see much point in continuing this circular discussion on a settled matter. The lewd portraits are banned, and rightfully so.

[Raikai]

I don't mind those camera restrictions...

But please let me have an 'universal portrait' that doesn't require maintenance when you swap things. Idk why that's not possible when it's actually a feature from the Adventurer's Plate - the picture there remains regardless of job or equipment swap.

[ChrysOCE]

Lol you keep clutching those pearls sweetheart. All you want to do is shout down anyone opposed to your view and make assumptions and cast aspertions. Good discussion.

[Jettinson]

I don't mind those camera restrictions...

But please let me have an 'universal portrait' that doesn't require maintenance when you swap things. Idk why that's not possible when it's actually a feature from the Adventurer's Plate - the picture there remains regardless of job or equipment swap.

Yeah, I am not surprised plenty of people just stick with default, it's a chore to do

[Remember_The_Name]

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Give the community a way to express themselves and eventually someone will draw a dick. It is just the way of life, unfortunately.
The only thing people can do is moderate this stuff properly and quickly (which is already happenning thankfully)

I think that "blame the community that we can't have nice things" is a bit incorrect. From the very beginning of Adventurer Plates people were predicting that someone is gonna post their character in 2B bottoms with their back towards the camera. And, as was shown in that screen you linked, people definetly went above and beyond in terms of degeneracy. It was just bound to happen, because a certain portion of the people just can't help themselves. Once again, proper moderation and strict rules are the way. But SE, in their usual fashion, overcorrected this and now we encounter silly problems like the OP had.

Realistically, what SE could've done, is to unstuck their heads from their arses and do some proper work on the Portrait system. It is absolutely silly how toggling your weapon/hat/visor on and off breaks the portrait completely. Freaking melding materia into your gear breaks the portrait. The actual F...?
And also adjust the camera restrictions to work properly so the system doesn't block Portrait when there are clearly nothing wrong (just like OP).

[sindriiisgaming]

i prefer guild cards in monster hunter tbh. you can show off multiple titles, it shows your achievments more clearly and you can see all of your character in more detail. maybe 14 could try to make more effort for protraits to be worth checking. imagine if you could send portraits to your duty mates and they could show up on your island like Hunters for hire show up in MH.

[Tahbitha]

Totally.

I laughed when I looked at this. I'm not sure what that says about me, TBH.