Your comments are incredibly offensive. You don't want people shaming you for your opinion, and that's alright, but you are ridiculing other people for theirs, and that's just as bad.

I'm sure that your intent is to offend and ridicule only that one person that you are replying to, but you are offending a wider number of people, so please stop.

It may be an impractical choice but aesthetically I don't really have any issue with it from a design choice. I'll sacrifice some ideal practicality for being able to look pretty in a game while smashing some skulls. I don't see it as anything meant to be sixual or provocative at all.

Calling it objectification is exaggerating a fair bit, imo. It's not as though a female character loses all value the second you can identify her as female o_O Sure practical armour is great, but I don't consider it a be-all-must-have-or-this-is-sixist detail.

Am I entitled to that opinion, or should I go turn my uterus in somewhere?

Neither. The suggestion is for armor that works as armor.

It's clear that TESO's armor designs are leaning well towards practicality, avoiding the usual fantasy tropes of giant spiky shoulderpads and random cleavage-revealing holes. In this setting, boob-shapes on plate armor are out of place.

Getting way off-topic. The whole point is the Elder Scrolls attempts to take a more realistic approach to fantasy, and some are merely pointing out that these briast cups, while certainly likely would still exist on ornamental armor, even in a realistic setting, do very little to protect one's self in combat.

This is also only referring to heavier armor. This isn't a issue of "Ohmagawds! I can see the breats!". Leather armors and cloth would be more form fitting and wouldn't be subject to this particular issue.

It wasn't my intention to offend and I admit the ankle exposure comment was a bit snarky, but if we go back to the OP's intended topic, there is an audience for it and that's more or less why it is in the game. I'm not saying that it should be a universal thing but I just don't think as many people take issue with it as you might think

Topkek

I agree, and I too do not think it is "objectification". There are chest plates on TES games that have the form of a bare male chest, too, and as long as there are alternatives, I have no problem with it other than it being unrealistic.

But I play magic classes with light armor anyway, so whatever

Since we are allowed to run around in heavy armor for the sake of looking cool (hint: you wouldn't be able to in real life), I think this issue falls under the same category. Whether it offers less protection by adding them, the end goal is the same as running around in heavy armor: To look cool.

I have no interest in debating at which point the line is crossed of objectifying women, but personally I don't think any TES game thus far has ever been close.