I RP on both MG and WRA. I cannot for the life of me remember any point in which someone has used stock emotes. Especially on WRA, which for the longest, has had the air of elitism attached to it in the manner that people approach RP. Sorry, if you feel my “experience is showing a bias”, that’s fine. But on WRA and MG, I have never once encountered someone using stock jokes or flirts (which are the emotes I am mainly speaking of) to somehow initiate RP.
If you think someone using /wave or something falls into the vein of what I’m discussing, then allow me to clarify: I’m not discussing things like /wave or /nod. But /flirt, or most of the emotes being removed? Nah, I’ve never seen anyone on either RP realm (and I am there frequently) use those. Especially when seeking to engage in the city.
Blizzard isn’t going to remove /e because at that point, it’s the same thing as someone whispering you. It is a player created interaction out of their hands, and people can either ignore or move on. If they did do that, the RP community would go up in flames which Blizzard doesn’t want at this point.
Still a tool to abuse people with the exact same emotes they are removing. We don’t want them to remove it, but nothing is stopping someone from making macros of the exact same word for word emotes and using them on people of the same faction.
I /fart on my bf in game all the time while we wait for spawns. And before raids when we were still raiding, lol. I fortunately can still fart in his general direction, just not tag him.
My bf would use them (/kiss /flirt whatever) on my char… And I’d type them back if I wasn’t lazy. I wouldn’t hear them most of the time but he literally plays with no sound so he wouldn’t even hear the flirt so I’d be like “did u hear that”
This doesn’t matter. What matters is origin point. If it’s from Blizzard’s stock UI, they handed the players the tools. If someone is using chat box functions and macro functionality (which should really be used for actual gameplay purposes), then it’s on them.
I know you might not think there’s a difference, but there absolutely is. /E isn’t going anywhere.
And in the end it’ll mean nothing because those lawsuits will hinge on settlements, not emotes in their games. And this was from their devs something they requested to make them more comfortable. Probably not everything that was removed, but likely a lot of it. So it’s not the lawsuit itself, but more a bare minimum to keep their workers from striking more and forming a union.
There has been many things blizz has done that I thought they would never do, but they surprise me. That’s why I leave nothing off the table.
Sure I get the difference they can ban someone that makes a macro they can’t ban someone that uses a general emote.
But I mean we still have toxic people and bots I don’t see that changing with this change so the change is still unneeded. Bots gonna bots. Toxic people gonna be toxic. Regardless of bans (If anyone ever actually gets banned).
i dunno. i guess that’s not relevant since those emotes remain.
i never really used the ones that got removed, i mean i did /silly a bunch of times in BGs just to see the jokes and waste time but only once or twice on each race maybe at best not even that.
note this does NOT mean i am for removing those, I dunno if they should be removed, at least replace them, but really I don’t know. Probably leave them in if it were up to me, but I guess it’s not.
I don’t know why people keep saying this. Roleplayers almost never use pre-set emotes, except maybe if you’ve forgotten to load up your CrossRP addon to communicate something to someone of the opposite faction, and that thing is seldom to never /fart, at least not in-character.
No roleplayers have been harmed by the removal of pre-set emotes. Typing is already our jam.
That. That’s the thing that we do.
Blizzard occasionally realizes that the game’s RP population is the most consistent and moneyed player base that they have. We don’t leave for content droughts, we don’t push for new expensive raids, we spend extra money on pets and mounts and cosmetics. They made it so that RP servers have no phasing in non-current areas so that we can have our events. They wouldn’t tick us off by taking away emotes entirely, BUT.
Even if they do, it would take about ten hot seconds for addon makers to come up with a workaround. Like if someone encloses normal speech in asterix in /say, TRP already colors it like emote speech for you. Some people already do their emotes that way.
so I’d be like “did u hear that”