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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8984103" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Don't have much to say in response to the overall stuff (no surprise there hopefully) but given I was "on the ground" for this one I can give a bit of context.They're called Portraits, and originally they were just a personal thing (other players could only see them by actively and directly seeking them out.) Then, they were shown at the start of the new small-group PVP content introduced with Endwalker--and there wasn't a way to turn them off at the time. I, personally, don't mind the ones that are "look at my butt!" or the like, as those are frankly quite tame. The ones I did not appreciate were those that made it actually look like a guy masturbating on camera (IIRC, it involved a very careful camera angle and a wooden fishing pole), or the one that made it look like women providing, ahem, oral stimulation to a partner. Given there was at the time no way to avoid seeing these things if you did PVP, these ones that were (as you say) astonishing faux-filth were a line I wasn't comfortable with people crossing. But there was, for a little while, some real big salt about the decision.Overall, erring on the side of prudish may have been for the best. Portraits are now also shown at the start of every combat instance. There is now the ability to opt out of seeing them, but...well, you have to opt out, not opt in. I've quite liked the portrait system overall though, it gives more personality and expression.Ultimately, though, you're quite right that the portraits thing was a tempest in a teapot. As has been the case with other things, like when Square said, "Yeah uh...that stuff we've been saying about how mods aren't okay? We really meant it guys, you actually can get banned for it." Oh, the hue and cry from folks suddenly TERRIFIED that Square would take away their accounts for no reason whatsoever! ...only for it to fizzle out two weeks later when everyone calmed down and actually understood that nothing had changed, Square was just reminding people of the policies it was already enforcing.</blockquote>

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