To Devs about Adventurer Plates

[Myrany]

Tying them to the commendation system would make them interactive, which I think is more fun in admittedly my own opinion. So I agree with you, it is a preference. People who don't want to do anything with them would just get the stock photo on them like PvP if they don't opt out of the system.

So would you say you are upset that Square Enix forces profile pics on the new PvP mode and that it wasn't right? - It's okay either way.

I have a lot of questions recently due to the responses I've heard here actually.

1. Why do people feel their own privacy is being invaded when a plate for their character gets slapped on the screen? Doesn't the lodestone already give extensive public details if anyone wants to look another person up there?
2. Why would people set an adventurer plate to keep it private? All it gives is stuff you can find out by examining a character in game, which has no way of being kept private with exception of the schedule, which doesnt need to be filled out?
3. Why is there a play schedule on the adventurer plate? It seems too serious, like a job. A small bio field would be more beneficial, and could also allow players to put their schedule there if they desired the info to be displayed. Don't people just log on when they have time? And they may choose not to log on a Saturday despite their adventurer plate saying they should be active?
4. Why are people opposed to a generic MMO character pic showing but they arent opposed to their name showing up on the commendation menu? Isn't forcing peoples names on there already an equal privacy violation? FFXIV doesn't even have enough customization available for a characters to be hyper unique. Whatever character we have is probably shared by hundreds of players in a game with millions of subscribers.

The only two hang ups I really can somewhat see are:
1. Longer loading, by like a second, but sure it can be inconvenient. So you opt out.
2. Offensive poses on pictures. And I do think SE will improve it so that they are more tame in the future. So this isn't a reason not to.

As far as "Forcing people" I view it less as an imperative mandate and more as causing change, which is inevitable. The game forces you to watch cutscenes in the MSQ roulette, it has forced job changes and some people like them some don't, it forces people to wait for weekly caps.

No matter what decisions they make they will tick off a certain subset of players. So all we can is offer feedback on our preferences and see what they choose. Truly what is or isn't right in video game design is relative to the preferences of the people that play it.

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My big problem with them is the times you play section. I find that invasive. Not filling in that part is an option but also opens players up to being questioned/ostracized for not filling it out. When I play is no ones business but my own.

[Nethereal]

Nudity is not tolerated on Twitch at all and neither on YouTube. Which some of the adventure plates end up showing.

Actual nudity or you mean in-game naked? I haven't kept up with the conversation.

[Nav_Fae]

If I have to look at people's plates to give a commendation, then I'll probably start giving out few. At this point you're encouraging giving out commendations on glamour with the plate preview.

[UkcsAlias]

Nudity is not tolerated on Twitch at all and neither on YouTube. Which some of the adventure plates end up showing.

Typical USA ways of handling things... while guns that are actualy dangerous are absolutely normal to be seen everywhere (not to mention the diffirence between male and female nipples being considered, in which male nipples for some reason are less problematic).

Nudity to some degree should be allowed, and in this game it has already been censored anyway. The remainder of skin you can see might be quite a bit, but its not the bits the USA normaly considers a problem. Seriously, if you go to a beach in the summer you already can see more skin. If twitch considers nudity in this game as a problem, those who manage twitch should visit a beach in the summer a bit more often.

Adding to that, if women do consider this too excessive because it sets a wrong standard... I want the thor movie series to be removed... Because that is an equaly similar excessive standard. Any game from a major dev is generaly already taken care of regarding nudity (because they are forced to do that to make the game suitable for as much countries as possible), twitch should have absolutely no rights to state anything there.

[Demetri_Delethorn]

Actual nudity or you mean in-game naked? I haven't kept up with the conversation.

There are literally people who think that there is nudity in this game. I have no idea why they want to lie and misrepresent, but here we are.

My big problem with them is the times you play section. I find that invasive. Not filling in that part is an option but also opens players up to being questioned/ostracized for not filling it out. When I play is no ones business but my own.

This might be the biggest nonissue in the thread. Getting upset and worried over something that has absolutely no bearing on anything. Calling it invasive is a massive stretch. Then you even admit you have an option to ignore it and STILL invent a reason that it’s bad (you could get ostracized or questioned for not filling it out!) Yeah, talk about things that will literally never happen.

[Violet_Galaxy]

I'd like this to be an option as I barely comm anyone nowadays and think that it would be a neat feature! Creativity should also be comm worthy as well and would help players "come to life" so to speak rather than trying to remember a name!

[Kaliesto]

The solution to lewd adventure plates is obvious: Remove 2B leggings.

This will have the additional benefit of forcing every Limsa catgirl to actually wear something new for once instead of being a carbon copy of each other's glams.

The 2B Leggings have been a blessing in designing cool glams

and

A Curse that has created the lewd by x99

At this point I just learned to roll with it whenever I see 2B number 8394 something, and I be like (can't you all think of something else more creatively)?

[Luin]

best solution is to make adventurer plates optional. Dont want to see custom plates? Let it be an option.

I dont see why everybody's own moral code has to match yours, especially when all players are doing is using the game's own glamour/emotes. What you see on a Portrait is the same thing you could see in Limsa or Quicksand.

Even as far as the game's rating goes, this isn't even nudity. The Yshtola cutscenes had as much nudity than any Plate.

[Minali]

Even as far as the game's rating goes, this isn't even nudity. The Yshtola cutscenes had as much nudity than any Plate.

Well... if we go strictly by nudity, maybe, buuut positioning also plays a bit of a part in my opinion..
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...mpetition_ive/

I can't speak for your server's Quicksand or Limsa, but I haven't seen that in mine so far. (But it's not like I am actively looking, to be fair.)

[RobynDaBank]

My big problem with them is the times you play section. I find that invasive. Not filling in that part is an option but also opens players up to being questioned/ostracized for not filling it out. When I play is no ones business but my own.

Wat? No one cares when you play to this extent. I'm planning to leave mine empty because my hours are too irregular. If I'm on I'm on. There's really no group of people IMHO in reality who would shun you just because you left that bit empty.