ANet is promoting bad behaviour?

Lex

Lex

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Quote from http://www.guildwars.com/competitive...ds/default.php

Quote:
The Zaishen Rank emotes were created to be very interactive. For example, if you position yourself correctly, you can use it as a finishing move after you defeat someone!
Now, I remember times when someone could get reported then de-ranked and/or temp banned for making rank emote over enemy's dead body in HA because of unsportsmanlike behaviour.

How come, now ANet encourages players to do such things?

RavenGT

RavenGT

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

I think Anet just shot themselves in the foot.

Celestial_Kitsune

Celestial_Kitsune

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Me/

Ranking is cheap, especially after the battle. Anet specifically encouraged unsportsmanship behavior by releasing that video and including that functionality in the emote.

Motoko Chika

Motoko Chika

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2008

Sunshine state.

Nagas With Attitude [nWa]

Mo/E

Lets not animal sumone? lulz? But umm..lets stab them with a spear, then a hammer, and an axe? O.0 weee!

CagedinSanity

CagedinSanity

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Away from you.

W/

I never see people use /rank in AB so Why would this be any different?
Yes, AB is primarily the only PvP I give a damn about.

Alexandra-Sweet

Alexandra-Sweet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

That one place with the trees, mountains and snow

Ember Power Mercenaries [EMP]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by CagedinSanity
I never see people use /rank in AB so Why would this be any different?
Yes, AB is primarily the only PvP I give a damn about.
Because HA is High end PvP and AB is one of the lowest (there's always Fort Aspenwood and that one place no one visits anymore *forgot name*)

CagedinSanity

CagedinSanity

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Away from you.

W/

True, AB is the lowest form of PvP. Which is why I love it.

Wakka Wah

Wakka Wah

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

CT, USA

The Stolen Eye [SEyE]

Mo/

this emote just will make a PvEr feel like he/she is a god when they kill someone in PvP, do to them looking up a build on PvXwiki and getting lucky.

FoxBat

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Amazon Basin [AB]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by CagedinSanity
I never see people use /rank in AB so Why would this be any different?
No-one is hero-ranked in AB anyway. But you will see many people with at least a copper spear now.

At least you have the solace of knowing this title isn't remotely related to skill... but yes, now you can do one better than corpse-humping, you can pee on it...

Tamuril elansar

Tamuril elansar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

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they where either stoned when coming up with this or they just made a mistake a long time ago (ppl make mistakes)

I Can Cure Cancer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Dark Empire [DE]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Motoko Chika
Lets not animal sumone? lulz? But umm..lets stab them with a spear, then a hammer, and an axe? O.0 weee!
Forgot sword btw.... Anyways that's kinda hypocritical of Anet there but I really don't care if some /zranks me, they're just showing their noobness and if you really wanna buy over 9000 zkeys to get a title either you got bored of the game and had nothing better to do or more likely you're stupid.

Monk In The Box

Monk In The Box

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2008

Deutschland und in mein zimmer

[한국어]

Mo/Me

A spear flying out of no where and landing in the ground? What is with Anet these days?

Thorondor Port

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

British Columbia

W/

Now the rich pve's can buy their way into an emote.

oh but still no skill

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

Mo/

Maybe they got new staff and they didn't know about the incident haha...
its nothing really... who cares if you get ranked if you lose? i thought the majority of HAers said that rank/emotes dont matter anyways so most people wouldn't care.

Navaros

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rafal

Now, I remember times when someone could get reported then de-ranked and/or temp banned for making rank emote over enemy's dead body in HA because of unsportsmanlike behaviour.

How come, now ANet encourages players to do such things?
Is there any proof of this? Because if true that would have been completely and utterly totally ludicrous. I've seen a few people claim this yet I've never seen proof of it. I'd love to see the links to official proof of this.

In any case,

Nothing is wrong with emoting over someone's body. Don't like it, then don't lose.

HuntMaster Avatar

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

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Its silly, of all the things to be bothered by....

/flingbooger emote
/sprayfart emote
/teabag emote

it could be a lot worse.

natural_Causes

natural_Causes

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

Hall of Monuments

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If they really had a problem with it, then why would they give the Charr in EOTN a tiger emote that they only use over your dead body?

Miska Bow

Miska Bow

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Join Date: Jan 2008

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Order of the Divine WoodChuck

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Its more then just an emote, its a 13-15 year old detector. If Anet still have any decency they would remove the emote crap.

Anyway, all that title things i just some major crap. So much more could have been done for the game but Anet took the the wrong path in promoting a money sink such as this one.

Major waist of 1 and 0.

Just my humble opinion.

Question for the dev (if they ever read this) Since using that emote after owning another player is permitted, will typing in ALL CHAT:"UP YOURS DUDE" or "PWN U NOOB!!!111!!!" will also be alloyed?

Sniper22

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

imo this emote is kinda rude and they should just remove it now...

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

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Yeah, I already noticed that.

ANet likes to send mixed messages. I'm waiting for the QQers to show up when they abuse this and get banned.

CagedinSanity

CagedinSanity

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Away from you.

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Miska Bow
Question for the dev (if they ever read this) Since using that emote after owning another player is permitted, will typing in ALL CHAT:"UP YOURS DUDE" or "PWN U NOOB!!!111!!!" will also be alloyed?
We have enough "suxon" and "kurdicks" as it is, so it still happens. Now people will have an emote to go along with their textual taunts.

natural_Causes

natural_Causes

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

Hall of Monuments

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What I don't get is, they say the emote is to "finish off your enemy", does that mean the emote does damage to enemies? Or is more of a gloat?

Gregslot

Gregslot

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Me/

Another "ops!" for A.Net staff with that video.

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

It's so nice to see Anet support childish behavior.

ZenRgy

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Join Date: Jul 2005

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I just can't wait to show all those people I kill in my numerous PvP adventures that I am better than them by ranking them twice! Then they'll think twice before facing me!

Ha ha ha!

HuntMaster Avatar

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

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I find it funny that a community as rude as gw's still has the nerve to complain when they are treated rudely. You can be rude to others but no one should be rude to you? being a scumbag is a trend on this game, One I have been amazed at for years. I find this very amusing.

As I'v always said, the game is filled with unsupervised children and disfunctional adults. Hence why I don't pvp and I don't party with people. H/H solo ftw!

These emotes are nothing new, just another way to express immaturity. Good sportsmanship does not exists anymore.


Quote:
Originally Posted by ZenRgy
I just can't wait to show all those people I kill in my numerous PvP adventures that I am better than them by ranking them twice! Then they'll think twice before facing me!

Ha ha ha!
Yet another reason Offline gaming will always be better than online gaming.

guolisong

guolisong

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2007

N/Me

promotion of minimal player interaction possible...
chat filter ftw!

Lex

Lex

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2005

To be clear, I have nothing against new ingame emote, but the way of ANet's introduction of new emote is very rude to me. It degrades my current thoughts/vision about ANet as company.

For me it is really bad PR.

HuntMaster Avatar

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

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The snowflake doesnt fall far from the blizzard. (waits to see if anyone gets it)

Alleji

Alleji

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rafal
Now, I remember times when someone could get reported then de-ranked and/or temp banned for making rank emote over enemy's dead body in HA because of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
Urban legend.

I remember about 2 years ago people were always joking about how if you rank someone's corpse you lose 100 fame.

I don't know if anet ever had an official stance on ranking corpses, but they certainly don't seem very serious about it now. I mean, come on, charr in EotN rank your corpses! I found that hilarious. Anet obviously picked up on the "in-game culture" and made a joke about it. And from there it's not far to actually embracing the trend and using it to promote the new emotes.

IMO people are way too touchy about this.

Stc95

Stc95

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2007

USA

Spirit of Elisha [SOE]

Mo/

Ya.. very bad part on Anet for this. Plus the 3 weapons falling looks horrible. I'd like it better if it was just one.

I guess it also shows how Anet doesnt see what everyone QQs about. Didnt the majority of people say no more titles? Or at least no more money sink titles?? And everythign i've seen on Guru says no more emotes.

Very very bad on Anet's part.

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

I think that if they isolated the emote use to towns, guild halls and in PvE explorable areas, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Rubbing salt in a defeated PvP player's wound doesn't sound very mature, eh?

Clone

Clone

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

It seems like Anet is screwing up more and more lately. They become popular by making a model that was different from other games. Then they just keep putting in annoying crap like this that bring them back down to the general level of refuse found everywhere else.

I'm loosing faith that GW2 will be any good.

Ben-A-BoO

Ben-A-BoO

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Europe

Well you can 'spear' your Tiger now ... and by that getting forgiveness for unsportsmanlike ranking ...

Seriously the only new emote should have been for the Champion title ...

But have fun with it guys ... thats what a game is supposed to be.

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Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

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Maybe aneters read the garbage posted on this site about them and took offense? Maybe they are determinded to teach us to shut our mouths and stop complaining, or they will only make it worse. Just a theory. But maybe they want us to be happy with what we get. I doubt it, but you never know. I mean some of the mods here changed their rank/sigs to be quite offensive. People are retarded is very offensive since mentally challenged people cant control their problems, but stupid people choose to be stupid.

Personally I think its almost time for me to retire from online gaming all together, I think I'm getting to old to find the humor in the newer generations insulting jokes. It seems ok for some people to be complete jerks but not others. At 29 yrs old I didnt think I was THAT old...

I doubt this will stay up very long since it meantions a mod. But its the truth.

PlasticBlue

PlasticBlue

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Middelburg

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Maybe they just wanted the PvE'ers to have a /rank that they can use against the /rank'ing Charr in EotN?
I hope this stuff is just so bad cause they are way to busy making GW2 uber good...

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

another good reason to play only with my h/h.....and going to empty international districts......

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

I think it's great now I no longer will need to use dancing (emote) over yer head or sitting on yer head after I kill someone in pvp. heheeeee We needed some new ways to put it in yer face type taunting in pvp. Afterall taunting is really a part of person vs person Muhamid Ali did it all the time in the ring to throw is opponents off focus and it works. I have more people coming after me trying to kill me than the focus of the pvp goals like capping or killing Gunther.

pOmrAkkUn

pOmrAkkUn

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Bangkok

Me/Mo

unload RP for Z Keys and go play AB, looking for 50% hp target, rape him and /zrank

wow AB should be so much fun now

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

I think it's a good way to bring out the dupers and gold sellers myself. Nobody has 60 million plat, but, they might have enough armbracers and ectoes to sell and buy it, but, then Anet can take a real good look at those and then ban them.