If I see Gwyneth across from me I just concede… so it’s a moot point.
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i feel like thousands of pages of feedback is enough feedback. please make a decision, announce it and close these threads.
They did make a decision.
So if I squelch you and automatically get squelched myself, that works, yes? It’s still anonymous. You don’t know you’ve been squelched and you don’t know that I’ve squelched myself. All you know is that you aren’t seeing any emotes. I think that might be the best implementation. And if you are using the squelch toggle, the same would apply, i.e. you get automatically self-squelched. This way the squelcher can still use the emote button to see his/her own emotes but they just won’t be visible to the opponent.
They did… for now. We are trying to persuade them to change their position on it. Also, they ought to do a better job explaining the reasoning behind their decision, something better than “their position is unchanged.” Yeah, unchanged from the 4+ year old tweet from the fired game director. That’s a cop out answer. You know it. I know it. Jesse knew it. Which is partly why he was trying so hard to get us some better answers. Here’s hoping Mary Anne can get some better info for us. And some more engagement from the dev team in the official forums. So far there have been a total of 7 posts from them in these forums. And 2 of those weren’t substantive.
Hi, just stopping in today to say how much I hate emoters, which means I hate Blizzard because of no auto-squelch. And the same opponent 3 games in a row. How many ways does this fail.
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So glad you felt the need to spread that hatred around.
LOL so much this.
Not that I’m an angel., never claimed to be.
But I have witnessed some of the rudest nastiest people in these threads complaining about ill use of cartoon bubbles.
Hate? Really? I said “Well Played” to you… and you HATE ME?
HATE?
See the door over there? On the other side is an emoteless world, go there.
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Yeah, you guys are so pure, sniping these threads all day with your fanboy snark hammers instead of hugs.
I faced this guy 3x in a row, what’s your defense of that?
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So, other people being horrible and evil and nasty is the green light for you to be a jerk? This is how you show people how to behave?
Typical hypocrite in 2019. I have zero respect for you. At least OWN who you are.
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Pff - nice troll avatar, and good job accusing others of everything you’re guilty of. So much winning.
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I am a troll and a whiner and a jerk from time to time, but I don’t complain about emotes bothering me and I don’t expect everyone to be angels and I don’t pretend to be one.
You come here complaining about people being jerks in a kids video game and you tell everyone, including the company that makes the game, that you hate them and you start acting like just the thing you despise.
And you don’t even see it.
Everytime I forget to squelch my opponent, he eventually use his emotes. But only when he has lethal, of course. Stupid emotes.
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While I’m sure it’s not really every time, but it probably happens often enough that it gets really, really exasperating.
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Is it really that difficult to take a mere .5 seconds to move the cursor up to the hero portrait, right click and hit “Squelch”? If that’s too complicated / too exhausting / too time consuming for you then… Maybe Hearthstone isn’t the game for you?
It’s not difficult. It’s tedious. It’s not just two clicks. It’s two clicks every single match. If it just stayed on once we set it, that’d be fine. But it resets every match. That’s why this request for a simple QoL improvement for those of us who prefer to play without seeing the opponent’s emotes. Further, sometimes we need to squelch multiple times per match because on mobile devices, the squelch falls off far too often. And while I appreciate the comment, I don’t think quitting the game is a realistic solution to the issue.
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Welcome to Squelch 101 where you will be taught about the squelch function over and over by professor Skruff.
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It doesn’t happend that often… but I’m curious what deck people play who feel they need to squelch their “opponent out of safety.”
What deck do you play? Is it a generally a hated deck like Priest? Hunter? Aggro? Mecha’thun?
I would say I get “BM’ed/emoted” 1 in the 10 matches or even 15. But I don’t really get bothered when it happens… sure, it’s not always fun, especially if you get roped on top of it. It just doesn’t happen enough for me to see such feature to disable emotes completely (yes I call it disabled, because emotes are useless if the opponent can’t see them).
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I have found that BM frequency, whether it be roping, intentional DC to make you wait when they know they lost, or emote spam, is directly proportional to the health and state of the meta.
When the meta is “fair”, I see almost zero BM emotes.
When its an oppressive crappy meta, people get salty and BM more.
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Once again, it takes .5 seconds to click Squelch. Even for every match; it’s .5 seconds… and with a double click; it now takes a gasp whole second! Maybe, maybe, just maaaaaybe a whole 1.5 seconds! Ohhh, the Humanity of it all! Curse you, Activision! Currrrrrrsssseee youuuuuuuu!!!
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Really? What was your first clue?
I also find it strange that some people who say pro AS people should just sit down and shut up keep coming back to this thread. If the topic is so bothersome, why keep coming back to it time and time again? As far as I know, the forums aren’t inundated with threads about autosquelch, it’s just this one in a sea of threads.
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