What is the reason behind Facial Expression emotes not being Persistent?

[Bluevann]

I have been asking this through various posts during this year, and can't say I've ever received an actual answer, so I figured I'd make a specific thread for this.

I clearly was not the only one to ask for facial emotes to be made permanent (or as the developers have baptized the sitting/dancing emotes, "Persistent"), but even after the introduction of wonderful static stances such as /changepose, the facial emotes were left brief and temporary.

I'd just like to know why, what makes it difficult to implement persistence to facial emotes, and if are the Developers considering to modify their lasting time sometime in the future?

[Fuma]

cause if you make that face for too long it'll get stuck like that

[Bluevann]

cause if you make that face for too long it'll get stuck like that

Hmmm, I don't see how. The /straightface facial emote would bring your character back to the idle facial expression, so that prevents getting stuck on a certain facial emote.

[Sebazy]

[Bluevann]

I saw the pun, but I am trying to keep this constructive. Someone might've read that post and seriously think that was the answer to my question.

[KaedrianLiang]

cause if you make that face for too long it'll get stuck like that

Hmmm, I don't see how. The /straightface facial emote would bring your character back to the idle facial expression, so that prevents getting stuck on a certain facial emote.

i guess parents dont say that phrase anymore. lol

[Bluevann]

i guess parents dont say that phrase anymore. lol

It's just not a thing here in Italy. Not all of the internet is NA <_<

If it were possible, and I saw someone with a permanent facial expression other than the default one I would assume they suffered a stroke.

And yet, there are many faces whose default /straightface expression is a smiling one (Miqo'te female comes to mind, only Face 4 is neutral).

[Brianmj]

i guess parents dont say that phrase anymore. lol

Or people shouldn't assume familiarity with colloquialisms that are intrinsically American.

[Hivernica]

Hmmm, I don't see how. The /straightface facial emote would bring your character back to the idle facial expression, so that prevents getting stuck on a certain facial emote.

He was being sarcastic. You know when you were a kid and made weird faces? Adults never told you your face would get stuck like that?

[Nalien]

I can see a case for making them last longer, or letting us toggle their length (/smile 10, for 10 seconds or something), but persistent would just be creepy. Anyone who maintains a solid smile for longer than a minute is an unholy abomination and should be treated as such.