Guild Wars 2

Female human animations, 800 gems.

Cloud.7613:

Female human animations, 800 gems.

9/10 would buy

Bug fixes with today’s patch and still no fix for this. =|

Now over 14k views and still nothing.

At least this is something!

Gaile Gray.6029:

I will see if I can follow up on this. I may not get an answer today, since it’s Friday night, but I will see if there’s any info on this to share.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Want-the-human-female-animations-back/

Thank you, Gaile, for at least taking some initiative related to this issue.

DarkOcean.8746:

At least this is something!

Gaile Gray.6029:

I will see if I can follow up on this. I may not get an answer today, since it’s Friday night, but I will see if there’s any info on this to share.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Want-the-human-female-animations-back/

Thanks for the heads up. Not gonna hold my breath though.

I’m not either. At least someone read it.

Maybe they are having to clear things with China before moving forward with the fix?

Not fixed in today’s patch :’(

Vanive.3804:

Oxidia.8103:

This has to be one of the stupidest threads ever created on this forum. Along with the emote rage thread.

lolol I didn’t notice it, maybe cause I rarely pay attention to other players and their emotes.

So someone has an opinion about something simple like this; something they liked about their toon, and you do not share their opinion and that makes the thread stupid huh. Perhaps you might like to share your phone number, mailing or email address and we, the rest of the people in the world other than you, can contact you and run it by you to see if we have your consent and/or agreement to make a thread. Lord knows we would not want to have an opinion of our own nor make a simple statement on a minor issue that you might not agree with. Maybe for the crime of making a simple statement on a trivial matter we should all just troll the maker of the statement just as you did to her/him. Oh… wait a sec… I think that is what I am doing to you right now. Sorry about that. Apparently I forgot to contact you and run this past you to for agreement.

Have a nice day you small narrow minded troll.

^ +1

Mark Katzbach.9084:

This bug has been reported and is currently under investigation. Thanks for your reports, everybody.

Dear Anet – I know you are incredibly busy and that Living World resumes very soon. Halloween is great and we are all very excited. Please please please do not forget about the idle animations bug. If it is not too much to ask it would be great if this could return soon. Thank you!

Gaile’s posted an update about this in a thread on the General forum. In short, yes, it is still on the radar, and they have determined a solution, but it’s not exactly straightforward and it’s just a matter of managing to schedule a dev’s time to go through and fix up the animations. (Of course, with LS2 etc. on the horizon, this priority is lower.)

.. and that thread is kind of heating up too. :/

Now its just getting confusing.

Well I think we pretty well established it was never a bug to begin with. They were clearly working with that section of code.

The bug is still not fixed! But at least we are getting more useless s... in the gemstore. Nice.

I don’t believe this was ever a bug either. The more time that elapses cements my belief that this was done intentionally.

A friend of mine offered up a theory that this was in some way connected to GamerGate. At the time, I thought that seemed a bit conspiratorial. Now I’m not so sure; there could be something to that. But if the anims were removed in response to some push by parties involved with GamerGate (or fear of such an action) then I’d like an answer to these simple questions: What on earth was so offensive about the animations? Why was it determined that the anims needed to go? And WHY LIE ABOUT IT AFTERWARD?

Despite those questions, I’m not interested in a Dev’s response to any of them because I already know what sort of nonsense such a response would probably contain. Much more interested in hearing the thoughts of the player base.

I still say they should bring back the animations until a “fix” is established. It’s been what, over 2 months now?

This still haven’t been fixed..

I hope we can get the animations back soon…

Phedre.3597:

I don’t believe this was ever a bug either. The more time that elapses cements my belief that this was done intentionally.

A friend of mine offered up a theory that this was in some way connected to GamerGate. At the time, I thought that seemed a bit conspiratorial. Now I’m not so sure; there could be something to that. But if the anims were removed in response to some push by parties involved with GamerGate (or fear of such an action) then I’d like an answer to these simple questions: What on earth was so offensive about the animations? Why was it determined that the anims needed to go? And WHY LIE ABOUT IT AFTERWARD?

Despite those questions, I’m not interested in a Dev’s response to any of them because I already know what sort of nonsense such a response would probably contain. Much more interested in hearing the thoughts of the player base.

Yes it was intentional. The animations are “too feminine and too sexy” so a certain group of people dedicated to eradicating such things got it shut down. It happens in any game they can sink their teeth into.

Looks like Anet is catering to their demographic by not showing some ounce of compromise by keeping the animations in-game while the “fix” is being worked on.

The other thread was locked, out of sight out of mind I guess.

Nifaea.9216:

Looks like Anet is catering to their demographic by not showing some ounce of compromise by keeping the animations in-game while the “fix” is being worked on.

The other thread was locked, out of sight out of mind I guess.

What’s unfortunate is they have a nice money-making solution right at their finger tips. Make running animations and idle animations something you can alter using the full make over kit. Those of us who would like the original running and idle animations can choose them. Those that do not can keep the new running animation and ‘lack’ of idle animations.

It would open up move things to sell in the store too. How about an Asuran that runs with a skip? More idle animations for all the other races and sexes? Lots of opportunities for money and control for each player.

Yea too bad your idea makes too much sense otherwise they’d implement it.

Seems like they are gone forever. They will not come back. Like the old human female running animation. They are lost. Forever.
A-Net said, it’s just temporarily, but I do not believe it. It’s not the first time they lied about something.
But remember the good old times, when things were better.

Goodbye "too feminine" animations! We will never forget you!

We still want it back

Gaile Gray.6029: said a month or so ago that they were working on a fix for different regions. Any update on this?

“Bug” was being “investigated” 3 months ago. I guess they don;t care much about world polish. Still, Blizzard will be happy that GW players are finding it increasingly easier to stay in WoW.

The deletion was sexist. I did not like it at all, should have left it the way it was.

Not cool.

yo arenanet

you gonna fix this

My character gets a lot of complements on her outfit and looks… the missing animation that clearly flaunts the goods is hampering my style! Please bring this back so that my character may be worshiped to her maximum potential.

At least the greatsword-swirling-forearm was fixed… If that’s of any consolation.

Marge.4035:

At least the greatsword-swirling-forearm was fixed… If that’s of any consolation.

It isn’t.

(Happy to hear that something got fixed, tho. ^^)

Kamui.4038:

Phedre.3597:

I don’t believe this was ever a bug either. The more time that elapses cements my belief that this was done intentionally.

A friend of mine offered up a theory that this was in some way connected to GamerGate. At the time, I thought that seemed a bit conspiratorial. Now I’m not so sure; there could be something to that. But if the anims were removed in response to some push by parties involved with GamerGate (or fear of such an action) then I’d like an answer to these simple questions: What on earth was so offensive about the animations? Why was it determined that the anims needed to go? And WHY LIE ABOUT IT AFTERWARD?

Despite those questions, I’m not interested in a Dev’s response to any of them because I already know what sort of nonsense such a response would probably contain. Much more interested in hearing the thoughts of the player base.

Yes it was intentional. The animations are “too feminine and too sexy” so a certain group of people dedicated to eradicating such things got it shut down. It happens in any game they can sink their teeth into.

Welcome to PCWars 2

They’re not going to assign any priority to it unless there is more awareness raised about the issue. There are a lot of views on this thread and the one in the general forum, but only a handful of people are speaking up about it.

Maybe both sides of this issue are the minority, they just chose to side with the minority that has shareholders. /shrug

I don’t even understand the “muh immersion” arguments that apparently motivated the changes, even now when you look closely to the characters they are probably looking anywhere but at the person/group they are talking to, or adjusting the hair/looking to the sides.

I fail to see how what we have now is any improvement over the old stretching and kicking the ground animations, but I guess the devs know better, right?

I still really miss the animation :<
Maybe as a Christmas present we’ll get it back lol.

(Finally adding in my voice >.>)

When will we get our idles back? Two or three lines of code….
Please guys…
I am annoyed that your team doesn’t care about it and I am annoyed that there’s never any transparency about what you’re doing. Have you ever had a look on how Chris Roberts’ team informs about how “Star Citizen” is developed?? That’s how you should do it.

Why remove animations??? also please give the more feminine walk animation back. This is ridiculous. I picked a FEMALE character not a MALE or BUTCH character

Maybe someone from Arenanet could reply again and give us an update.

Just wanted to say that about a week or so ago I was running through Divinity’s Reach when I noticed a female human NPC with the animation. So I’d say it wasn’t removed from the game, just removed from player characters. My own female human seems to be missing it too.

It doesn’t make sense. 4+ months ago a dev posted in this thread that they were investigating it and we haven’t heard any thing from them since. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Female-human-only-has-1-animation-now/page/2#post4392079

Bump for awareness :< I really want to take stretching pics of my char right now

It’s just hard to bump threads without actually ‘bumping’ threads. We, as the players, have no new insight into this issue. The development team knows it’s an issue. They know it’s an ongoing issue (as are many things). We just don’t want it to fall through the cracks. This issue has existed for way too long now, in my opinion. It really shouldn’t have been tampered with in the first place since a fix wasn’t remotely ready to be deployed.

It’s going to be very hard to keep track of all the things that have been patched up rather than fixed properly if this is the path that we’re going to go down.

I know I have a very long list of bugs (not counting items missing from the game), and the list is continuously growing while nothing is being marked off. It’s just so frustrating when I, vaguely, know the potential of this game. I say that because many of these bugs are bugs that did not exist immediately at launch. They have manifested themselves over time and continue to do so. I’ve sent in so many reports in game and on the forum and have seen nothing to show for it other than the entire removal of town clothing because I reported some pieces interfering with each other via clipping. While I know the removal of the town clothing system wasn’t because of me (at least I certainly hope it wasn’t), the only bug report I’ve filed (that has been ‘dealt’ with) has ended with the eradication of an entire system I really liked. This is so frustrating.

monepipi.5160:

Why remove animations??? also please give the more feminine walk animation back. This is ridiculous. I picked a FEMALE character not a MALE or BUTCH character

I believe Anet removed the animations due to GamerGate. Bugs get fixed espesically when they’re acknowledged. Design changes gone wrong take much much longer to reverse, if they ever get reversed at all. The removal of the female animation is just more water under the bridge. Another example of how this once proud and wildly popular franchise was ridden off the rails by short-sighted decision makers.

I know this might sound harsh, but the removal of the animation served nothing but to annoy and infuriate an already uncertain playerbase. Please bring back the animations.

Gaile Gray.6029:

First, please don’t bump threads, Death.

Secondly, there isn’t an update on this right now. There are details in earlier posts (with the red flag) but, with regret, there isn’t any new information to share right now. I’ll check with the team to see if they have anything additional to add, but I don’t believe this has bubbled up to be at the top of the list quite yet.

But it was important enough to go to the trouble of turning it off? After working just fine for 2 years? Like the running animation before it, which someone went to a ‘lot’ of trouble to change. It wasn’t as simple as just ‘turning it off’, as was the case with the idle animations.

Respectfully, could you do two things for us?

First, could you ask ‘why’? In both the case of the idle animations and the running animation?

Second, could you ‘please’ pass along my idea to have idle animations and running animations be something that we each get to choose for our own character, like a hair style or finishing move? It would give everyone what they want for their own character, restore options that were in place for 2 years in the game (for those of us who enjoyed the old running and idle animations), and open up an interesting new thing for you folks to create and sell in the store. I bet a lot of people would love to add a ‘flipping a coin’ idle animation to their character (besides the issue with the human female idle and running animations that many of us miss).

Thank you very much for your time.

I hope the human female animations are not coming back like the were.
Never made a human female because of the animations, the were just to “easy womenish”.

I made a female ranger recently and she has an extra animation where she sticks her finger in the air to check wind direction. I don’t know if that’s because I’m a ranger, I have a longbow equipped, or because I have the “Read the Wind” trait.