Breakfast Topic: Emoting
by Jennie Lees 
Feb 8th 2006 at 7:30AM
It's those little things that make
Azeroth a fun place to be -- and these days, it seems no MMO can get away without a /dance emote. The list of emotes
you can perform ingame is quite long (hit the "Read" link for the official rundown), and you can even create
your own using /me -- although opposing factions will only see indecipherable gestures if you use anything but
pre-approved commands.What's your favourite in-game emote? If you could add your own to the pre-approved list, what would it be?
If I'm questing in a contested zone and I really don't want to be bothered, I tend to fire off a macro at approaching Alliance players -- /hug, /kiss, /bow -- which is supposed to tell them that I'm feeling peaceful and want to make my offerings to the Earthmother rather than kill Alliance. Unfortunately, I end up getting ganked anyway, but c'est la vie. A more specific emote might help -- "Player is deeply absorbed in her given task and does not feel that today is a day for war" -- but people would likely gank me out of spite. I don't mind ganking, but there are some days when you only have an hour to play and you really want to get all those bear livers!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Casikao Feb 8th 2006 10:58AM
it seems as of late nmmorpgs cannot survive without an attraction or a /dance < the attraction > so many people making alliance people For nightelves? if you've ever played an alliance person mainly in goldshire you will see NE Females dancing on tables Etc etc... maybe a big factor or maybe not?
mat Feb 8th 2006 12:29PM
I for one really enjoy the sound emotes like /train. That still hasn't gotten old for me, even after a year.
I think it'd be cool if they just continued to add more variation in the current emotes and/or add more. In my opinion it's one of the things that makes the social aspect of WoW that much more rich and further allows it to stand apart from other MMORPGs.
Ricky Feb 8th 2006 1:02PM
I want more ways to heckle and insult. Even if I'm just saying, "boo."
I think it would be nice for harassing deserving Alliance players in my wanderings.
Sometimes I do think, it would be nice to have a "go away," emote.
Oddly enough there have been several occasions where I wish I had a, "vomit," emote. Mostly for when I'm around dwarves. I hate dwarves. They make me sick. Always talking like Mike Meyers, smell like sweat and beer. Nasty creatures.
AareDub Feb 8th 2006 2:05PM
Hmmm, when an Alliance member does a /kiss at me, I've always taken it as a taunting gesture.
jdoublep Feb 8th 2006 2:15PM
i prefer to chill out suckas by emoting:
/lick.
i once had a NE taunting the hell out of me, doing the chicken emote, and with one lick, i caused him pause. 20 more made him leave the area. now i use it all the time to great effect.
i also like to /sleep on taxi rides.
RighteousDork Feb 8th 2006 2:18PM
God, dwarves aren't that bad. I'll admit that our women leave much to be desired but have you seen Tauren women. Give us a break. So the opposite faction can't understand personal emotes? I didn't realize that. I've been using that to communicate with them. "Dagjager thinks you're petty for picking on someone 15 levels lower than you." "Dagjager questions your mother's lineage." You know, stuff like that.
SLYBRI Feb 8th 2006 3:43PM
I will be seriously dissapointed if the expansion doesn't add new emotes. Not just for the new races but for all the races. New /silly jokes, new animations, new voice emotes for all races.
SWG added emotes with every patch. WoW hasn't added a new emote since release.
Old Feb 9th 2006 2:57PM
I like that "Flirt" for my Hoarde Undead Warlock-ess, when she says some of those "Flirts", (one is particularly nasty sounding from a woman) I swear the GMs are gonna can me - but - whoops - hey, it's their game!
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