"Most Gentlemanly" pose

[Enclavex]

Ah, well. Let's just give everyone the option to crouch like a male Miqo'te, then. It's all good, right?

I wouldn't have a problem if they did it with any races pose. Who cares? It's nothing.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Ah, well. Let's just give everyone the option to crouch like a male Miqo'te, then. It's all good, right?

That wouldn't be a bother at all. Because yknow, it's a damn movement. And it would bring more choices to all players, as I'm sure some people would love to have manqo'te crouch, as it works with certain character personalities far better than a regular "sit down flat on the ground and stretch out" does. Warrior-types in particular come to mind when I think of how the manqo'te crouch would be good for other races.

Highlander men are getting bent out of shape over a movement. It's kind of ridiculous. Especially when you act so surprised that everyone was given the Hildibrand pose (which ends up meaning the Highlander pose, just with differences more akin to our beloved inspector). Hildibrand is one of the most iconic and beloved characters of FFXIV, and many people want to emulate him - which includes that iconic pose. A pose he made iconic by the good graces of happening to be a Highlander man. It was only a matter of time before they gave his iconic pose to everyone, so that we could all be like our favorite inspector extraordinaire.

I honestly do not see the problem with you losing a single unique movement. Highlander men still have EVERY OTHER EMOTE being unique to them (or as unique as some emotes can get, but you get my point). Losing one single emote is not going to hurt you people, especially when the /hildy emote has subtle difference to make it unique from regular Highlander /pose, in the first place.

Really at this point, I say SE should just give all emotes a /cpose option to make it be a different race's emote. Want to sit like an Elezen man on a female miqo'te? /sit >>> /cpose until you get to the male Elezen pose. I think doing that would open up a ton of extra customization for everyone by allowing us to pick our own preferred "style" based upon emotes we prefer from other races for our current race.

God knows I'd love some of the female Highlander emotes for my cats. Highlander women are adorably expressive.

[Seif]

If they had actual eyebrows this game would become too sexy for me to handle.

[Peachy]

Since Hildibrand is a very popular character that players want to emulate, we introduced his special pose so they could have fun pretending to be their favorite detective. I understand that there can only be one Highlander… pose, but we ask that you appreciate that other adventurers have taken such a strong interest in your style.

As for the request to add a new pose for Highlanders, although we understand your feelings, we currently do not have any plans to add this.

This is extremely generic. And thats not HIS special pose its highlander pose because he is a highlander. So as to your response, there are several very popular characters that I wish to emulate, please tell devs to add costumes and emotes for all. I need thancreds backflip, and minfilias wonder bra.

On a serious note though, my main is highlander and I was kind of disappointed to see everyone can have this but also hoped it might mean they would unlock the other poses or give a new one. But you say there are no plans for that either? thats a bad call and we shouldve gotten his /think pose not his RACIAL pose.

[Gyson]

That wouldn't be a bother at all. Because yknow, it's a damn movement. And it would bring more choices to all players, as I'm sure some people would love to have manqo'te crouch, as it works with certain character personalities far better than a regular "sit down flat on the ground and stretch out" does. Warrior-types in particular come to mind when I think of how the manqo'te crouch would be good for other races.

Highlander men are getting bent out of shape over a movement. It's kind of ridiculous. Especially when you act so surprised that everyone was given the Hildibrand pose (which ends up meaning the Highlander pose, just with differences more akin to our beloved inspector). Hildibrand is one of the most iconic and beloved characters of FFXIV, and many people want to emulate him - which includes that iconic pose. A pose he made iconic by the good graces of happening to be a Highlander man. It was only a matter of time before they gave his iconic pose to everyone, so that we could all be like our favorite inspector extraordinaire.

I honestly do not see the problem with you losing a single unique movement. Highlander men still have EVERY OTHER EMOTE being unique to them (or as unique as some emotes can get, but you get my point). Losing one single emote is not going to hurt you people, especially when the /hildy emote has subtle difference to make it unique from regular Highlander /pose, in the first place.

Actually, I'm pretty sure most are just suggesting that if the developers are going to share one race's pose, then share all the poses from every race. OR, if they're determined to not do that, then give Highlanders a unique pose like everyone else has. That's not even touching on the fact that the new Hildibrand pose is pretty much useless to Highlanders (who already mostly had it), which essentially means everyone received an additional emote except for male Highlanders.

It seems like a pretty reasonable point, and for as much as you're complaining about people getting "bent out of shape" over a movement, I would question why you're getting bent out of shape over text in the form of a request on a forum thread. Unlike your initial comment suggested, nobody is asking to be a special snowflake, they're only asking for options and resources to be distributed equally amongst all race types.

It's really odd how the community seems to be keeping track of who got which new hairstyle last, but when we're talking about emotes it is (in your mind) suddenly a silly thing to stress about? We all only have only so many ways to express the differences in our characters, and you'll have to excuse people if they feel each and every option counts.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

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Asking for Highlanders to get a new emote just because your /pose (one emote out of MANY) is "no longer unique" even when /hildy already has differences within it to differentiate itself from even the default Highlander male /pose, IS kind of being a special snowflake and getting bent out of shape over nothing. If Highlanders lost every single unique animation they have thanks to the Hildibrand reward, then I would slightly understand (even if I'm, again, of the mind that all emote variations should be available to all races just for further customization), but that is not what happened. You didn't even lose your /pose, Hildibrand's pose is not only persistent, but the teeth shine is not something that Highlander men have. Subtle differences, yes, but differences still.

Demanding that the devs give a brand new emote to Highlanders just because you're all bent out of shape over people having an iconic pose from Hildibrand (who just happens to be a highlander), is ridiculous and childish.

[Shougun]

Demanding that the devs give a brand new emote to Highlanders just because you're all bent out of shape over people having an iconic pose from Hildibrand (who just happens to be a highlander), is ridiculous and childish.

Op, I and others have said its not game breaking just disappointing (seriously, "all bent out of shape"?). Also the emotes are so similar that I highly doubt the great majority of Highlanders would be sad if they got a new one as the Hildibrand version stayed. You're being a bit sensational and misrepresenting in your literal attack that had little to do with you.

The desire is to be unique yes, but to be unique like all the other races again - kind of sad to tell someone they can't be special as you are yourself. I suppose its childish to be on the same footing as other races. You may argue that "its only slightly different, so not the same", but you can clearly tell by most of the pro "new animations, particularly don't waste your money just give us another Hildibrand/Godbert" that they see the new animation so similar that it shan't be called different.

And yes I know you think everyone could have everyone's emotes and that would be dandy, but that is not the case currently and that is not anywhere near SE's intentions - its a nice pipe dream but its not the reality and not worth any salt basing an argument that involves calling people children, and selfish.

Imo, you're being rude for what seems like matters no reason to you, or SE. No one here told SE they failed at life or that the game is not worth playing anymore or wanted to be more than the other races, they just wanted to be in their own vision similar to everyone else again, they wanted to fit in.

[Skyl1n3]

Highlanderss should get 'Hildy Think', job done.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

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Go back through the thread. How many posts do you see with Highlanders going "we DEMAND [x thing]" in offense of all races receiving a slightly altered and persistent Highlander /pose based upon Hildibrand (who happens to be Highlander)?

Please tell me again how you people aren't acting childish about something that literally is not a huge deal at all. Trying to defend yourselves and going "bububu we just wanna be unique again qqqq" isn't helping you to appear less childish in my eyes for getting all ruffled about Hildibrand's pose. And no amount of you trying to argue a moot point is going to change that outlook, especially if all you keep harping on about is "weeh we wanna be unique again even when we're the only subset of a race to have unique poses between the subsets weeh". Seriously, you have emote animations that not even Midlanders, the not-so-buff Hyurs, have. Please tell me again how losing a single /pose emote is making you guys not as unique anymore.

[Shougun]

Go back through the thread. How many posts do you see with Highlanders going "we DEMAND [x thing]" in offense of all races receiving a slightly altered and persistent Highlander /pose based upon Hildibrand (who happens to be Highlander)?

Please tell me again how you people aren't acting childish about something that literally is not a huge deal at all. Trying to defend yourselves and going "bububu we just wanna be unique again qqqq" isn't helping you to appear less childish in my eyes for getting all ruffled about Hildibrand's pose. And no amount of you trying to argue a moot point is going to change that outlook, especially if all you keep harping on about is "weeh we wanna be unique again even when we're the only subset of a race to have unique poses between the subsets weeh". Seriously, you have emote animations that not even Midlanders, the not-so-buff Hyurs, have. Please tell me again how losing a single /pose emote is making you guys not as unique anymore.

X or riot. It doesn't mean actually rioting, its just a figure of speech.

Midlanders have their own set of animations I dont get your comparison between the two. I'm not sure why SE stopped unqiue animations between clans at the hyur race, but we don't share midlanders unique pose. It is still one less animation down, regardless if you want to point out the weird relationship mid and highlanders have between each other.

Losing an emote is losing an emote- its not the end of the world but it does make the total evaluation of highlander different.

Edit: ^ Evaluation as in 1+1+1=3, one less emote =2, evaluation now different.