Hi y’all. I’ve been playing recently and sometimes my opponents will use emotes and I can’t tell what they’re trying to tell me. Some of the time I get it. For instance, the “oops” emote is obvious, they’re trying to let me know that I made a mistake so I can get better, or they’re lamenting a particularly bad play that they just had.
But sometimes they’ll say “hello” in the middle of the match. I thought at first that they were trying to let me know that they think I should concede since they would often use it right before a really good play, like troublemaker or libram of hope. I found this annoying because a lot of the time I felt like when they said this that the match wasn’t really over and they shouldn’t start gloating just yet. But then I saw a streamer I like use the emote right before hitting lethal and it didn’t seem like he meant it in a mean way. I think maybe instead of “hello” it means “goodbye” in this context, which kind of makes sense since there is no goodbye emote. I dunno, maybe I’m just giving him more credit because I like him.
One time I said thank you to another player because I was enjoying the game and I think it made them mad because they started spamming Thanks after every single turn, and on the last turn instead of using fireball to kill me (I had been at five health for a couple turns) they played a bunch of other cards, waited a bit, and then used the fireball that they had been holding for like three turns, and said thank you as I died, lol.
What bothered me more than the gloating is the mismatch in meaning. Like, “hello” doesn’t mean “I won” it means hello. I kind of have a literal mind and it was a little irritating because I wasn’t easily parsing what they were trying to say. I thought maybe it was a “hello” like when you find something you lost, like, “Hello, Libram of Hope, where have you been?”
They usually mean something you can’t repeat on these forums without getting banned when its constant spamming.
The acceptable level of Emote is turn 2 Priest heals your Face and Thratens if Anduin Skin and a few Jarraxxus emotes because Jaraxxus emote are cool and you just want to here them when your the player that transforms.
if you click on their hero, you can “squelch” or mute them.
that’s about all i got. if you were wondering why they were doing this, bm. there’s not much else to it (unless they did make a mistake when they said oops).
In certain situations it’s easy to tell what the person is doing, like at the start and end of the game, ‘greetings’ or 'well played. From experience it’s hard not to get mad when you loose and think they’re bming you, even till this day it hard for me. You will never know what the other person is actually thinking or trying to express. Lots of people squelch the other player before it even starts. I don’t feel doing that is proper, only when they spam. It’s like going to play MTG on a table top and instantly putting tape over their mouth. No company should block freedom of speech like Blizzard done with this game… there should always be a chat box when you’re playing versus another human being.
I would have agreed if 60% of games wouldn’t be a chat with “You piece of **** -class- player”, “You are soooo boring for playing that deck”, “I will **** your **** into **** and after ***** for playing that dege***** deck”, “gg loser”, etc etc.
I think they don’t have a chat box because they want their game to be kid-friendly. I know other games like that don’t let the players talk to each other directly because it’s the easiest way to make sure nobody does anything inappropriate. Sure, we expect the majority of players to behave themselves, but for the tiny minority who would abuse the system Blizzard would have to employ a team of moderators to resolve disputes and there would be a code of conduct and it would just be a lot of work for something that, from their perspective offers no upside.
I don’t even know what half of her emotes are. In a match I was in she said something about running with the wolves and I was like, “Huh? Is that the threaten emote?”
If you use them properly and in context, like I do, it adds an extra layer of fun. But I know what you mean, ppl will just spam any emote just to let you know you suck or something haha
