Dances and other emotes in 2.0/ARR

[Laraul]

Sure, why not? The pop-culture jokes are a huge part of WoW's popularity.

The only real problem it poses in a FF game, is that the game is being developed in Japan, so much of our pop-culture is, more than likely, a mystery to them. IIRC, FFXI had at least a bit of Japanese pop-culture reference that flew over the heads of most of us westerners.

Yes Japan completely shields themselves from our western culture.

[Hanabira]

Pop culture dances wouldnt work, they go in and out WAY too fast, but iconic dances.. IE.. the carlton dance is another story.

[Sivara]

I vote a huge "NO" to pop culture dances. As others have said, SE can borrow from many of the great extant folk dances or make up some related to the different cultures in Eorzea.

Pop culture dances in fantasy MMOs are kind of funny, sure, but they can be very annoying. When I played WoW, I made a Human female character but deleted her for a number of reasons -- one being that her /dance was the gods-awful Macarena. It was embarrassing. I made a female Dranei instead, which was MUCH better. The /dance for female Dranei? Bellydancing. I think something like that would be fine in Eorzea (bear in mind, I may be biased because I am currently taking bellydance classes).

Also, if people really want a funny dance for comic relief, what about having a /sillydance or /funnydance? We'd still have /dance for a race-specific folk dance, and /sillydance could be something fun (NOT pop culture).

[ninesunz]

/sexy dance!

[Riv]

How about no?

[Riv]

Yes Japan completely shields themselves from our western culture.

what the fuck lol

[Shougun]

I wouldnt mind longer/more dance animations or couple dance animations but unless for a silly event (temporary) never introduce "pop culture" dances.

[Denmo]

Yes Japan completely shields themselves from our western culture.

I can't believe I watched the whole thing.

[Mrfox0707]

From reading posts so far I think yours make the best point.

I can respect your opinion for what you would like as far as dances go. However, the fact that Eorzea is a high fantasy setting; any popular culture dances (visual references) from our world just doesn't make sense, and IF implemented would really take away from the game's continuity. I think as far as SE goes, they'll only be including some humor that we can catch with modern referencing.

Much else added would degrade the game in my humble opinion.

I see that a lot of you have really good ideas for dance emotes. Culture dances are much less popular, and after reading different opinions I would have to agree. But I do see many of you agree that dances need to be revamped a bit.

Keep the good ideas flowing everyone!