I complain about emotes a lot. One of my primary complaints is they use it as a way to inject flavor in the game, with the different voices and phrases. But we don't use emotes for flavor, we're trying to communicate player to player (not character to character). So all the phrases just distort what we want to say and it all gets (even more) salty.
So, what if they kept the emotes as they are, but just let the hero characters randomly say stuff to each other? It could be amusing as hell and we'd start to appreciate the flavor -- i.e. all the work Blizzard put in on doing voice work, etc. We wouldn't take it so seriously and personally anymore because it's random and it's the characters talking, not us. And squelch is always there if you don't like it.
To me it's either that, or just take the flavor out and give us half a chance to communicate with some civility.
How about "I wouldn't like that"? Why are we all such dicks?
Because some people don't know how to utilise simple respectful behaviour. (Obviously they didn't get to that lesson in primary school yet) OP - interesting idea, though maybe not practical in terms of the game. However, you could always get this any time yuo want with old Mayor Noggenfogger (sp?).
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I complain about emotes a lot. One of my primary complaints is they use it as a way to inject flavor in the game, with the different voices and phrases. But we don't use emotes for flavor, we're trying to communicate player to player (not character to character). So all the phrases just distort what we want to say and it all gets (even more) salty.
So, what if they kept the emotes as they are, but just let the hero characters randomly say stuff to each other? It could be amusing as hell and we'd start to appreciate the flavor -- i.e. all the work Blizzard put in on doing voice work, etc. We wouldn't take it so seriously and personally anymore because it's random and it's the characters talking, not us. And squelch is always there if you don't like it.
To me it's either that, or just take the flavor out and give us half a chance to communicate with some civility.
Just an idle thought as we wait for Kobolds ...
No.
How about "I wouldn't like that"? Why are we all such dicks?
OP - interesting idea, though maybe not practical in terms of the game. However, you could always get this any time yuo want with old Mayor Noggenfogger (sp?).