Smoking emote.

[ErryK]

I would be for it.

[Reinha]

I could imagine it fitting other games but FFXIV has an overall aesthetic that's colorful and family friendly. Emotes that perform self harm on our characters would seem off.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Hell yes, we need it at the very least pipe smoke

[Raiya]

Not going to happen. Too many guidelines in various countries to allow this.

For example:

http://ash.org.uk/wp-content/uploads...n-download.pdf

Yoyotsu says hello. :P

[kujoestars]

I could see it working as a fantasy-pipe thing, but maybe not actual cigarettes or cigars. I utterly despise smoking irl as well, but we’re in a fantasy setting and we canonically have characters that smoke stuff out of pipes already (i.e. Tailfeather chocobo hunters with fogweed). I know in Japan broadcast television can’t show anyone under 18 smoking (*sideeyes JJBA on Crunchyroll censoring Jotaro’s smoking in Part 3 despite it being obvious that’s what he’s doing*) but I’m not sure it applies to videogames. And iirc, the WoL is supposed to be around 21 so it’s a moot point anyway. Probably as long as they don’t depict any kiddos doing it, they can get away with it.

/pipe sounds like a good rp emote for anyone who wants to play into a setting or be a tired old codger or wise old wizard like Gandalf.

Pipes were also used to deliver inhaled medicine anyway before the age of nebulizers, iirc, so it need not be legit tobacco or whatever.

[MikkoAkure]

On a technical level, the animation for such an emote actually already exists in the codebase; a fairly major NPC in the Stormblood storylines has and smokes a pipe. (That said, I suspect it only exists in there for the one gender/race—it's not like anyone else uses the animation—which means if they added it as an emote they'd probably have to make the appropriate variants for everyone else.)

On a social level? I'm not super fond of smoking, but I can also see the benefit for screenshot purposes and roleplayers and such.

She uses the same animation that goes back to an NPC in ARR who’s still in Rev Toll to this day. My memory is fuzzy but I think it’s been used by other NPCs as well. On top of that, there’s an ashtray with still smoking cigar and an oriental smoking set in-game that you can put in your home. Smoking is also brought up during one of the carpenter quests and you need to make said smoking set to allow tea patrons to light up.

I’m not a personal fan of smoking but I don’t see a reason why our characters can’t do it. There’s already precedence for multiple characters smoking in-game so it’s not like we’re in uncharted territory.

[Arillyn]

I don't know that SE would do it or could do it without violating rules in different countries (I don't know how different countries view that). I personally think smoking is disgusting, but I wouldn't be opposed to SE implementing it. I can see how, especially with RP, that it may fit some people's characters.

[ElHeggunte]

Do you want it just so you can fight Ramuh, stand in Judgment Bolt, and say “thanks, I needed a light?”

Because that’s going a long way for a joke and is exactly why I want this now that I typed it out, please make it happen, SE

[Razard]

Yoyotsu says hello. :P

But the difference here is the same as the "teenage character" one. It's one thing for an NPC, and this case a villain, doing something within their control. But player charactes are not.

[Arillyn]

Do you want it just so you can fight Ramuh, stand in Judgment Bolt, and say “thanks, I needed a light?”

Because that’s going a long way for a joke and is exactly why I want this now that I typed it out, please make it happen, SE

Dangit! I didn't realize we did need this emote until now!