Why don't square sell animation packs for other races?

[Droxybrobotnik]

So, it struck me today that some racial poses and animations, and in some cases even gender ones, fit incredibly well for other races or genders, such as au ra idle poses on miqo'tes, or male miqo /joy for female. it made me think back to warframe, where every frame have two sets of animations, that you can then purchase to use on any frame.

Would it, then, be so far fetched to do the same for 14? If Square told me "okay, so if you put down some lunch money, you can get to have au ra idles poses on your catgirl" then I'd pay that in a heartbeat, and I bet that there are a lot of you out there who would love to have x on y. Revenue from this could then also support polishing animations and poses that the community considers less good, or make them work better on other races and genders. Overall, this feels like easy money for something that would just add to one of 14's core strengths - freedom of self expression.

What do you guys think?

[Brightamethyst]

I'm happy to keep certain things race and/or gender specific. It adds flavor to the game. The animations are what make miqo'te miqo'te, rather than just hyurs with cat ears.

[Iscah]

Keeping track of "which pose set to use" would require increasing the amount of things tracked by the character data, which it seems they either can't or just don't do.

[Bukachu]

I don't understand what's up with shills requesting more stuff to be added to in cash-shop, instead of requesting things to be added to the game to be ontainable.

peculiar behavior

[Syln]

So, it struck me today that some racial poses and animations, and in some cases even gender ones, fit incredibly well for other races or genders, such as au ra idle poses on miqo'tes, or male miqo /joy for female. it made me think back to warframe, where every frame have two sets of animations, that you can then purchase to use on any frame.

Would it, then, be so far fetched to do the same for 14? If Square told me "okay, so if you put down some lunch money, you can get to have au ra idles poses on your catgirl" then I'd pay that in a heartbeat, and I bet that there are a lot of you out there who would love to have x on y. Revenue from this could then also support polishing animations and poses that the community considers less good, or make them work better on other races and genders. Overall, this feels like easy money for something that would just add to one of 14's core strengths - freedom of self expression.

What do you guys think?

I just wanted to say that i love your profile pic.

And to be on topic even though i'm not anti cash shop i think this kind of stuff should be free since it's already in game and some mod showed that animation are easily swappable and already work on different model.

[Droxybrobotnik]

I just wanted to say that i love your profile pic.

And to be on topic even though i'm not anti cash shop i think this kind of stuff should be free since it's already in game and some mod showed that animation are easily swappable and already work on different model.

Well yeah, the framework to do it already exists and is public source. Thanks, btw :3

And as for the "it would ruin race personality", I don't think emotes and animations is all of it. Unique voices, hairstyles, glamours, and things like horns, ears, muscles, scales, etc, is to me more synonymous with race identity. Even if two races has same idle pose it won't look the same enough that its interchangable. Also, I'm more of the opinion that you should be able to express yourself in the race you play rather than that your race expresses you. Take two miqo'tes and let them choose what emotes they have access to at any given time, and they are distinct from each other in a way they won't be if they all do the same emotes. If there isn't enough variance in the races themselves to still retain individuality then I think Square should add more racial ways to distinguish yourself - again, it shouldn't be all emotes.

As for the somebody who insinuates I'm a shill, I'm actually quite anti-exploitation in every regard, but making money from this would mean Square would have more production and effort into it, because companies wants to make money. Of course, its my 2 cents.

[SturmChurro]

I don't understand what's up with shills requesting more stuff to be added to in cash-shop, instead of requesting things to be added to the game to be ontainable.

peculiar behavior

Many probably think dangling money at SE will be a motivator for them to add things.

[Nizzi]

I WISH SQUARE ENIX WOULD TAKE AWAY ENERGY DRAIN FROM SCHOLAR AGAIN JUST TO SELL IT BACK TO ME FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF 25.99 IN THE MOGSTATION
I WOULD SAY "YOWZAA WHAT A STEAL" AND BUY TWENTY OF THOSE!

[LittleChickenNugget]

I don't understand what's up with shills requesting more stuff to be added to in cash-shop, instead of requesting things to be added to the game to be ontainable.

peculiar behavior

We like to keep poor people like you out of our exclusive circles.

[Syln]

I WISH SQUARE ENIX WOULD TAKE AWAY ENERGY DRAIN FROM SCHOLAR AGAIN JUST TO SELL IT BACK TO ME FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF 25.99 IN THE MOGSTATION
I WOULD SAY "YOWZAA WHAT A STEAL" AND BUY TWENTY OF THOSE!

That's the spirit !