Portraits were better in Beta. Your design is ridiculous.

[Esmoire]

I really, really, really like using positive language when I post here, and I am trying to. I like the idea behind the portrait system. It's good to have individual experience, to really leverage the MMO as a social experience, and there are a lot of fun decorations. The system for posing is reasonably powerful, and simple.

But this is so atrociously bad to use. Despite our feedback, this got shipped out without doing the single, one thing, people asked for.

When I set my portrait, I never want to think about it again.

That's it. Regardless of what gear I have on, whether or not my helmet is hidden, what glam plate I have linked. I never, ever, ever, ever want to have to think about unless I want to change it, because I want to. And worse of all, you decided every gearset should have its own portrait. Why? I have like 40 gearsets for crafters or swimwear or whatever and like most people, I have a handful of jobs I am really into and the rest I respect but don't care for. I rather have like... I don't know, even a single portrait I can guarantee WORKS. Is that too much to ask for? Why is it made this way? This is really, really, really bad. Because now that you made this, every time I load into a duty, I am reminded of the bad system. It would be better to NOT have them there until they work. Now people will forever have a bad taste in their mouth. It's even worse because we all saw that Japanese celebrity telling Yoshi-P he liked the old portrait system, live on stream, and he just brushed his feedback aside.

[Vahlnir]

In my opinion, they got it right the first time around. All they had to do was improve what was already there. Then they just...upended the entire thing and somehow made it worse.

[Azuri]

Ah, the delicious salt. It so glorious. I really hate the portrait feature. I just don't want it to be there. Don't care. I don't want to make one. I don't want to have the default one. I just want to have none at all. Put a random plaque with job icon over mine or something. And so... I'm really glad for the current state of it. I hope Square gets burned so hard that they will end up pulling portraits out. Remove and pretend that it never happened. And stop wasting memory allocation and dev time on a useless feature that does nothing but waste 1 minute of my time every PvP game and now just annoys me in PvE too.

Keep the Adventurer plates, those are also useless but at least they are unobtrusive. Portraits can burn.

[JuicyHeals]

Dunno if it's been mentiined but I found by just deleting the gear set and them remaking it will make it easier to set your instant portrait. Of course this shouldn't even be a thing in the first place....

[LifeupOmega]

"Only a portrait of your currently equipped gear set may be applied to the adventurer plate."

[Ath192]

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ Let us just attach our adventurer plate and use that as a portrait for everything. In fact I dont think anyone here would complain if they just let the Adventurer plate as the sole option and deleted portraits altogether. WE DO NOT NEED 20 PROFILE PICTURES

[Vahlnir]

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ Let us just attach our adventurer plate and use that as a portrait for everything. In fact I dont think anyone here would complain if they just let the Adventurer plate as the sole option and deleted portraits altogether. WE DO NOT NEED 20 PROFILE PICTURES

I'd love to just use my adventure plate for everything as well.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I forgot they existed until I went into a trial and had the whole party's plates pop up. Then I turned that off, and now I will continue to forget they exist.

[Skivvy]

I forgot they existed until I went into a trial and had the whole party's plates pop up. Then I turned that off, and now I will continue to forget they exist.

I turned them off as well. I don't have the need to see the character card of some random people I will never interact with again.

I do like the adventurer plate system though as that's fun to see what your friends come up with. And if you want to check the card of a random person, at least that choice is yours and it's not being thrown in your face.

[GTK0HLK]

I'd rather not have my adventplate update.
it should just be a list with toggles.
let us do as we want.
what's on my plate stays.
With the addition Plates before Duties.
They should have an option of those plates change based on the class or role, not geared.

we want a representation of the character/WoL not a mugshot.