Make emotes more customizable, please? No more race/gender lock?

[Bright-Flower]

In theory this would be neat but I don't think it's worth the developers time to animate all these emotes. It's not as easy as just flipping a switch.

[Nibahz]

I would be all for more customisation, but I wouldn't remove race or gender locks, rather add something like personality to the character creation.
So animations would have slight differences in what they look like, but are still set to one race and one gender. Basically make one Miqo'te all happy funnsies and the next quiet. The happy one would still Jump around when they are celebrating and the quiet one would do something a lot more subtle when they are celebrating.

However I think that would be a lot of work for every emote on every race and gender

[PyurBlue]

I like the races feeling different there's no advantage to picking one and there shouldn't be, but I like there being flavor reasons for each and I'd like to see more, more racial armour and weapons, more emotes per race.

Keeping races distinct and giving them their own flavor is probably a common desire. The disagreement seems to stem from how it's done. Locking races to a certain set of emotes or something along those lines is at odds with a mixed society like Eorzea. It also squashes individuality for player characters which is especially noticeable when some NPC's are built around defying their own norms.

SE could give us more individually by ditching race locks and at the same time deepen racial lore by exploring it directly rather than only giving hints of it through things like restricted emotes. What if some NPC's reacted differently to different characters? Like certain elezens being less trusting of non-elezens? Or a wandering aggressive roegadyn that ignores smaller races, but would challenge larger ones in battle to show off strength? Why don't female miqote's express additional interest in male miqote player characters if they see them very rarely? I'd love to see details like this. They would diversify the races and make the world more dynamic without piling limitations on players. Similar ideas could be applied to racial clothing, which could be easily attained by the race it's meant for but require more effort on the part of other races. Imagine entire questlines where you might have to learn another race's culture and gain their respect by providing for them things that they specifically value. There are so many possibilities.

I'd also love to see half races, it could help add some of the cross over that people crave but it should come at a price to allow those half races to also feel special like how and Elezen Hyur would have Elezen ears and features but body type and Hyur height.

This would also be a nice feature. Race heights can stay as they are since they're biological. It makes sense that there are limits on those characteristics. We also already have mixed race characters in the game and Eternal Bonding can be between anyone.

Just wanted to clear up my stance.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Oh boy that sure sounds great, while we are at it could we make the following also universal:
-Height.
-Voices.
-Miqo'te's ears/tails.
-Au'ra's horns.
-Viera's ears.
Who needs race uniqueness when I can finally make my female-voiced male 7 ft cat-rabbit-demon Lalafell from hell.

Make a Roe with that annoying miqo voice. Just run around with my bulky body going "HAAAA". Lol

[Canadane]

I think we should have more racial exclusives. I'm tired of seeing everyone whine wanting to dilute the uniqueness of other races just so they can get everything.

Exactly. More would be better. Most people are unwilling to look past themselves and see the lack of options presented to their own character as a limitation, whereas it's in fact a source of variety.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

I disagree with the OP. I prefer each race have their own special emotes or rather, their own take on the existing ones. I don't want a roegadyn running around using au ra emotes or a lalafell using miqo emotes. I like things as they are now. Not that this unlocking would ever happen, though, because the massive undertaking it would be to make all the existing emotes work for everyone would not be worth the time nor money. Time and money that I'd rather be spent towards new content.

[Brightamethyst]

First off, it adds flavor. I may envy someone else's animation, but so what? It'd be boring if everything was all the same.

Second, a lot of the racial animations are probably locked because of the inherent racial differences. The lalafell leg swinging chair /cpose only works because they're so short that their feet don't touch the ground while sitting. It would look insane for any of the other races. Same with any of the miqo'te/au ra amotes that involve the tails, etc.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Oh my god, can we please stop trying to make everything "equal"? Let races have their emotes, let genders have their unique emotes and poses.

[Fredco191]

Let genders have their unique emotes and poses.

But the female DRK pose looks so much cooler in my opinion!

[DrWho2010]

in my opinion!

opinions are subjective.