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Every time I want to emote, after my opponent conceded or I finished him, I can't emote.
I rightclicked on my hero and before I can click on one of my emotes, the Emotemenu just closed.
Sorry to hear this. It's a real problem, don't Blizzard know that spamming an emote to feel good about yourself is a necessary condition of winning a game??? It makes me feel big, strong and powerful, like a wizard. I can't feel like a wizard anymore, it's not fair.
Maybe tell your mum? If she tells them off, they might fix it and we can all be happy again!
Yes this is how they spent their time at Blizzard HQ instead of fixing the game . They just make stupid things like stopping emotes , because some 10 year old got mad after losing KEKW .. Keep On the good work Blizzard :)
Addressing the player's feelings is their priority. Except when it comes to feeling bad about losing to busted cards, then it's a matter of which deck makes them more money.
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There is a small bug with the emotes wherein the two on the top (and maybe the bottom too, but not sure) don't appear to be clickable once the game has ended. However the "Thank you" and "Well Played" emotes still work perfectly well, should you feel the desperate urge to spam emotes at the end of a game.
All that said, claiming that a simple game bug like this is "censorship" is... well.., I think we all can see how ridiculous and over-the-top that reaction is.
Yes this is how they spent their time at Blizzard HQ instead of fixing the game . They just make stupid things like stopping emotes , because some 10 year old got mad after losing KEKW .. Keep On the good work Blizzard :)
You're clearly somebody who knows how to spend their time effectively.
My 11 year finds the whole kekw thing juvenile, I bet you like using that pepe face to spam on things as well, don't you...the irony in you accusing others of being 10 year olds haha
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can't use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
Every time I want to emote, after my opponent conceded or I finished him, I can't emote.
I rightclicked on my hero and before I can click on one of my emotes, the Emotemenu just closed.
Sorry to hear this. It's a real problem, don't Blizzard know that spamming an emote to feel good about yourself is a necessary condition of winning a game??? It makes me feel big, strong and powerful, like a wizard. I can't feel like a wizard anymore, it's not fair.
Maybe tell your mum? If she tells them off, they might fix it and we can all be happy again!
You're a sad little toxic boy.
Just flaming, no Intelligent conversation.
You know, it's a game, right? If you're tilted, because of a game, dont play the game.
I have this problem as well (PC player). I also thought they made it unclickable after lethal to prevent ironic spamming, but dunno maybe it is just a bug? But its not only about spamming some ironic emotes when you finish a Lunacy Mage, I usually don´t do that anyway. But if you had just a regular good game and the opponents says "well played" and finishes you, you don´t even have the chance to say it back (and you would not want to say it before lethal happens, in case they trolled you...)
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
Seeing as you use Esports as an example I'll return you real sport. If you are watching football or the NFL or whatever do you consider it childish when they celebrate a goal or touchdown? That is kind of like emoting, and I'm sure the opposition feel all the worse for being paraded in front of at the moment they fucked up. They would probably 'squelch' them in that moment if they could, becasue they are feeling emotional, and competitive at the same time. But if they were 'auto-squelched' the game would be considerably worse off, more lifeless and less engaging for it, for everyone involved. It doesn't do anyone any harm in reality - and anyone who cried about it with the intent of actually getting a rule change would rightly be laughed at and told to sling it.
I take your point about toxic behaviour in gaming, and agree. But we're not talknig about racism or picking on the disabled here.
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
Seeing as you use Esports as an example I'll return you real sport. If you are watching football or the NFL or whatever do you consider it childish when they celebrate a goal or touchdown? That is kind of like emoting, and I'm sure the opposition feel all the worse for being paraded in front of at the moment they fucked up. They would probably 'squelch' them in that moment if they could, becasue they are feeling emotional, and competitive at the same time. But if they were 'auto-squelched' the game would be considerably worse off, more lifeless and less engaging for it, for everyone involved. It doesn't do anyone any harm in reality - and anyone who cried about it with the intent of actually getting a rule change would rightly be laughed at and told to sling it.
I take your point about toxic behaviour in gaming, and agree. But we're not talknig about racism or picking on the disabled here.
And in the NFL they punish players for taunting because it’s against the rules, so yes, they actually are “squelched” by the referees, or by the coaches who will take them out of the game if they continue getting stupid penalties. No, the game would not be less engaging or lifeless without it. Those players are idiots and the game would be better without them. I like watching football and other sports for the actual sport content, not to see people flaunt their egos. I do like seeing people being sportsmanlike, however, and helping the other team’s player when they are hurt, knocked down, and not rubbing in a loss, but instead hand shaking or hugging it out.
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
Seeing as you use Esports as an example I'll return you real sport. If you are watching football or the NFL or whatever do you consider it childish when they celebrate a goal or touchdown? That is kind of like emoting, and I'm sure the opposition feel all the worse for being paraded in front of at the moment they fucked up. They would probably 'squelch' them in that moment if they could, becasue they are feeling emotional, and competitive at the same time. But if they were 'auto-squelched' the game would be considerably worse off, more lifeless and less engaging for it, for everyone involved. It doesn't do anyone any harm in reality - and anyone who cried about it with the intent of actually getting a rule change would rightly be laughed at and told to sling it.
I take your point about toxic behaviour in gaming, and agree. But we're not talknig about racism or picking on the disabled here.
U cant compare this game (HS) with football or NFL. In that case u celebrate your goal with your teammates, your fans, thats totally different. Just compare this with chess, have u seen many players "emote", taunt their opponents (instead just handshake and discuss politely) after they win the game? Thats horribly rude.
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
Seeing as you use Esports as an example I'll return you real sport. If you are watching football or the NFL or whatever do you consider it childish when they celebrate a goal or touchdown? That is kind of like emoting, and I'm sure the opposition feel all the worse for being paraded in front of at the moment they fucked up. They would probably 'squelch' them in that moment if they could, becasue they are feeling emotional, and competitive at the same time. But if they were 'auto-squelched' the game would be considerably worse off, more lifeless and less engaging for it, for everyone involved. It doesn't do anyone any harm in reality - and anyone who cried about it with the intent of actually getting a rule change would rightly be laughed at and told to sling it.
I take your point about toxic behaviour in gaming, and agree. But we're not talknig about racism or picking on the disabled here.
And in the NFL they punish players for taunting because it’s against the rules, so yes, they actually are “squelched” by the referees, or by the coaches who will take them out of the game if they continue getting stupid penalties. No, the game would not be less engaging or lifeless without it. Those players are idiots and the game would be better without them. I like watching football and other sports for the actual sport content, not to see people flaunt their egos. I do like seeing people being sportsmanlike, however, and helping the other team’s player when they are hurt, knocked down, and not rubbing in a loss, but instead hand shaking or hugging it out.
Taunting is one thing, but I watch enough NFL to know its just a matter of interpretation - player makes a big hit or cuts a ball out they often celebrate by doing something that could easily be described as taunting. Sometimes scoring teams go through little pre-rehearsed routines even when celebrating touchdowns.
And in football, if you watch it at all, you will know how goals are celebrated...nearly every single time it could be described as taunting and "flaunting their egos", if you like. Teams and players just deal with it, its part of the fun.
Football would absolutely be more lifeless without it, and hearhstone would be more lifeless without emotes, as it is literally the only way we have of communicating with an opponent - so what if sometimes these emotes are used for similar displays?
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Its this a bug or was intended?
why blizzard is censuring us?
so now I cant troll at the end but I have to squelch every player since the start...wow..what a lame game.
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You're far too cool for this game, you should really move on.
All this censuring is becoming a joke. I'm damn glad they at least don't censor us, that would infringe upon my fairy given rights to be a dickhead.
The censuring has to stop though. Write a strongly worded email of complaint to Blizzard and let us know how you get on. Keep fighting the fight!
I though it was only me, lol.
Every time I want to emote, after my opponent conceded or I finished him, I can't emote.
I rightclicked on my hero and before I can click on one of my emotes, the Emotemenu just closed.
Sorry to hear this. It's a real problem, don't Blizzard know that spamming an emote to feel good about yourself is a necessary condition of winning a game??? It makes me feel big, strong and powerful, like a wizard. I can't feel like a wizard anymore, it's not fair.
Maybe tell your mum? If she tells them off, they might fix it and we can all be happy again!
Yes this is how they spent their time at Blizzard HQ instead of fixing the game . They just make stupid things like stopping emotes , because some 10 year old got mad after losing KEKW .. Keep On the good work Blizzard :)
dude, emote after u secure the win LMAO
If this already irritates you, then how about you try to post a comment on Youtube, the Theme Park of Censorship.
Addressing the player's feelings is their priority. Except when it comes to feeling bad about losing to busted cards, then it's a matter of which deck makes them more money.
I love you Dreadsteed, I will never disenchant you!
Same, I just emote the whole game anyway, then if I have lethal I'll just wait for the rope, lol
As far as im aware, thats only bug on mobile platforms, you can emote on pc.
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ModeratorThere is a small bug with the emotes wherein the two on the top (and maybe the bottom too, but not sure) don't appear to be clickable once the game has ended.
However the "Thank you" and "Well Played" emotes still work perfectly well, should you feel the desperate urge to spam emotes at the end of a game.
All that said, claiming that a simple game bug like this is "censorship" is... well.., I think we all can see how ridiculous and over-the-top that reaction is.
You're clearly somebody who knows how to spend their time effectively.
My 11 year finds the whole kekw thing juvenile, I bet you like using that pepe face to spam on things as well, don't you...the irony in you accusing others of being 10 year olds haha
I hardly ever use the emotes, but I quite enjoy it when I come across a kid that is clearly pleased with themselves at beating my often memey decks. Have at it dude! The fact that people can't handle it is kinda pathetic. Coddling in modern gaming gets me down - no chat chat allowed, only emotes, we know what you fuckers were like in Diablo2...no wait, now you can't use sorry, you are upsetting people....no wait, now you can't use any emotes but Well Played....where does this end? Like, we can't even be trusted with a neutered form of communication as it is? Wtf?
Like holy shit, who is Blizzard protecting here? They emoted you after you lost and you freaked out and shutdown the game in a rage or something? Damn, grow a goddam spine.
And the sarcasm in this thread from people thinking they are somehow superior is equally fucking lame.
You're a sad little toxic boy.
Just flaming, no Intelligent conversation.
You know, it's a game, right? If you're tilted, because of a game, dont play the game.
I have this problem as well (PC player). I also thought they made it unclickable after lethal to prevent ironic spamming, but dunno maybe it is just a bug?
But its not only about spamming some ironic emotes when you finish a Lunacy Mage, I usually don´t do that anyway. But if you had just a regular good game and the opponents says "well played" and finishes you, you don´t even have the chance to say it back (and you would not want to say it before lethal happens, in case they trolled you...)
well, 1st world problems i guess :D
You're being completely disengenuous here. I haven't seen people 'upset'. It's just crappy behaviour and I see no issue calling that out at all. The issue I have isn't with the impact at all, people will react differently to all sorts of things and some people are super precious. My point of discussion is more at the fact that people WANT to upset people. The person doing it is hoping the other person is upset by it and maybe 999 out of 1000 don't care but why should anyone feel not only able to, but entitled to, even just attempt it? Even if nobody gave a shit, that person doesn't know that, they have simply tried to be a dick and are hoping it's worked. It's childish, cowardly and just bad form.
You can call people horrible names, you can shout racist abuse etc and someone can always boil it down to "it doesn't actually affect you, get over it". Name calling doesn't bother me in the slightest, I have to actually respect your opinion first for anything you say to bother me but I'm not going to be a knobhead sympathiser and I have the mental capability of considering why somebody else woukdnt like it.
And some of the people who 'can't handle that' and are 'pathetic' may have things like mental or learning disabilities. Now you can say 'well then they shouldn't play online games' but again, that's a dick move.
And yes, I do feel I'm a better person than the person that spams emotes in a game in an attempt to piss the other person off or upset them. In fact, I am objectively better.
I'm going to guess you're pretty young or at least give you that benefit because you clearly don't understand a concept ad basic as empathy yet. Hopefully this increases with life experience.
"where does it end" oh please save the melodrama. There's a reason this type of activity doesn't go on typically in real life scenarios. It ends with 'don't act like a twat'. Just like it does in person.
Tell me, how many esport or sporting events have you watched, where the winners go and get in the face of their opponent and actively taunt them? It doesn't happen because its childish and ridiculous. You may think it's cool to have an alter ego or 'online' personality, where you can act like a twat because you're free of repurcussion. Cool, good for you.
Seeing as you use Esports as an example I'll return you real sport. If you are watching football or the NFL or whatever do you consider it childish when they celebrate a goal or touchdown? That is kind of like emoting, and I'm sure the opposition feel all the worse for being paraded in front of at the moment they fucked up. They would probably 'squelch' them in that moment if they could, becasue they are feeling emotional, and competitive at the same time. But if they were 'auto-squelched' the game would be considerably worse off, more lifeless and less engaging for it, for everyone involved. It doesn't do anyone any harm in reality - and anyone who cried about it with the intent of actually getting a rule change would rightly be laughed at and told to sling it.
I take your point about toxic behaviour in gaming, and agree. But we're not talknig about racism or picking on the disabled here.
And in the NFL they punish players for taunting because it’s against the rules, so yes, they actually are “squelched” by the referees, or by the coaches who will take them out of the game if they continue getting stupid penalties. No, the game would not be less engaging or lifeless without it. Those players are idiots and the game would be better without them. I like watching football and other sports for the actual sport content, not to see people flaunt their egos. I do like seeing people being sportsmanlike, however, and helping the other team’s player when they are hurt, knocked down, and not rubbing in a loss, but instead hand shaking or hugging it out.
U cant compare this game (HS) with football or NFL. In that case u celebrate your goal with your teammates, your fans, thats totally different. Just compare this with chess, have u seen many players "emote", taunt their opponents (instead just handshake and discuss politely) after they win the game? Thats horribly rude.
Taunting is one thing, but I watch enough NFL to know its just a matter of interpretation - player makes a big hit or cuts a ball out they often celebrate by doing something that could easily be described as taunting. Sometimes scoring teams go through little pre-rehearsed routines even when celebrating touchdowns.
And in football, if you watch it at all, you will know how goals are celebrated...nearly every single time it could be described as taunting and "flaunting their egos", if you like. Teams and players just deal with it, its part of the fun.
Football would absolutely be more lifeless without it, and hearhstone would be more lifeless without emotes, as it is literally the only way we have of communicating with an opponent - so what if sometimes these emotes are used for similar displays?