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

[kidalutz]

I still find it confusing that the side asking for locks says they want it for the sake of uniqueness. I feel like uniqueness and breaking homogeneity is the entire point of removing the locks. Right now your character's "personality" is fully defined by your race. It's bland, limiting, and well just not unique. Even the devs know this because they won't play by their own rules. They give important characters their own personalities and mannerisms because it would look silly for them to be robots like everyone else. Some characters even define themselves by being the opposite of what they should be were they player characters (SCH job quests for example). Why can't player characters do the same?

A convincing world that feels alive should be important for MMO's, and part of that is recognizing individual diversity. The overly simple and heavy handed approach of making everyone of a particular race or sex a clone of everyone else in their group just feels like a really poor way to build a world.

No it looks like a proper world with many different races of people living in it intermingling and chilling with each other.As a world should be. Locks are there because the worlds uniqueness ignores the real world, thankfully.The real world sucks I wouldn't pay fifteen bucks a month to play in the real world. The Sims is right up that alley go play it. Don't get me wrong now, I'd love to not have keyhole armor and proper pants for my outfits sometimes but I'll take that hit if it means I get to play in a world that continues to exist alongside but separate from the real one.

[StarRosie]

I kind of want to do the female version of the Moogle Dance.

I want to do the male version of the Sun Drop Dance. Not the Chinese knock off version the ladies get.

[Brightamethyst]

I want to do the male version of the Sun Drop Dance. Not the Chinese knock off version the ladies get.

To be fair, the real life dance that Sundrop is based on has those same differences between the male and female versions.

[Kikoten]

Every race has it's own set of how various emotes work, from /sit and /kneel to /blush and /dance.

For some that might be all fine or they don't even care at all about emotes, but honestly... imagine a character like everyone's favorite scary Dotharl, Sadu... being all cutesy-moe, like the female Au Ra emotes force us to be if we use them as female Au Ra. Eeeeehhhh.... I think Sadu wouldn't react nicely to that idea

On the other hand, why can't a big Roe guy not use "cutesy" emotes of the type currently restricted to female Au Ra, if it fits the personality?

I think the current system is very limiting (while the vastness of emotes in the game absolutely amazing), and therefore would like to petition to make emotes more customizable.

Remove the "race/gender lock" for them, and let us pick at least one "set" of emotes, so that my female Au Ra can have lets say the emotes currently "attached" to female Elezen, since she is a more elegant lady. Or my Miquote girl the emotes currently attached to male Au Ra, because she is a bit a rough lady .

Of course even more awesome (but I'm aware that might be a nightmare to program) would be that we can pick one type for every single emote: /blush like currently female Elezen, but /sit like currently female Highlanders, and /psyche like currently male Au Ra

Let us be who we really are, and express ourselves accordingly