To Devs about Adventurer Plates

[IkaraGreydancer]

Not needed at all. Don't really care

[Ayer2015]

cool idea.
But it'll make people who don't want to deal with it complain.

People will always complain. SE could hand out free money and people would complain.

[IkaraGreydancer]

Depending on how wide-spread the crotch/butt profiles become, I wonder if the devs will make it so that the camera can't go below the waist? Which will be unfortunate since there are some nice full-body profiles that I saw in PvP. People say that this is a family-friendly mmo and that we have to keep in mind that children also play this game too.

In all seriousness I don't see why they would change how the portraits work already, the photo has to show your face to be accepted. And I don't to much care for the "think of the kids" argument as thats the parents job not mine. If Miqo butt in 2Bs bottoms is a no no for you you're playing the wrong game

[Xirean]

People will always complain. SE could hand out free money and people would complain.

The best part about this feature is that it's optional. I think a decent amount of people seem to forget that people like different stuff. A cool feature for one person is obnoxious for another. I like the plates and I'd be ok with them being expanded further, provided that any system that uses them is also optional.

[Padudu]

welp
I warned ya.
*brings out popcorn*

I wonder when the FF Uniqlo UTs will reach my shores

excuse me what?? Uniqlo is dropping FF merch? Or they did? WHEN?

edit: nvm I looked it up. HYPED, I love tf outta Uniqlo

[Tsukino]

Whether you like them or not, it seems like there are already plans to add them to more things, though not commendations specifically. From the patch notes:

Such portraits are used to introduce players at the start of various duties. As of Patch 6.1, they are used to introduce combatants at the beginning of Crystalline Conflict PvP matches.

Makes it sound a lot like they'll appear at the start of things like dungeons at some point in the future, but are only in PvP right now.

[Ath192]

Whether you like them or not, it seems like there are already plans to add them to more things, though not commendations specifically. From the patch notes: Makes it sound a lot like they'll appear at the start of things like dungeons at some point in the future, but are only in PvP right now.

That’s fine, I’d welcome that change. I know the commendation system is sometimes obscure and relatively out of the way so I thought it was a way to freshen it up but if it gets introduced at the beginning like it does for PVP I’d be down. That’s pretty cool.

[Fyrebrand]

Sounds like a fun idea at face value, and I do wish they would adjust the commendation system so that you can still vote for players even after they've left the dungeon. However...

Then, people will actively be very interested in making their plates as cool as possible.

I'm not sure I like the idea of Adventurer Plate design or character portraits influencing commendations, either positively or negatively. Granted, players can already commend for pretty arbitrary things like character name or appearance, but I feel like this would just exacerbate that and bring it to the forefront. It could even tacitly suggest that voting for "best Adventurer Plate" is actually the intended purpose of comms.

[Rawr18]

I think the commendation idea is pretty cool.

[Ath192]

Sounds like a fun idea at face value, and I do wish they would adjust the commendation system so that you can still vote for players even after they've left the dungeon. However...



I'm not sure I like the idea of Adventurer Plate design or character portraits influencing commendations, either positively or negatively. Granted, players can already commend for pretty arbitrary things like character name or appearance, but I feel like this would just exacerbate that and bring it to the forefront. It could even tacitly suggest that voting for "best Adventurer Plate" is actually the intended purpose of comms.

Unfortunately it is already that way. By design I might add. Since the game refuses to measure performance of players at the end of the dungeon commendations go to either people who were pleasant and chill, glamours, or someone who hard carried so much it was impossible to ignore.

Also, since commendations don’t serve a huge purpose I think the developers intend them to be for whatever they want the users to interpret as commendable, and if a player put the extra work into making a real cool plate then maybe that is the drop that tips the scale.

So I don’t necessarily view that possibility as an issue and rather as a fact of life. Commendations can happen for anything.