ANet is promoting bad behaviour?

i prefer just dancing on the corpse
like in AB i take a small dance on the corpse of the guy who i killed

Meh, I personally think you are overreacting.

Like n1ghtstalker said, there are other things you can do over a corpse that is just as annoying, like /dance, /taunt, /jump or whatever. This is just another one, only this one is more flashy. Should someone ever flash this emote in my face, ill just ignore him. Just as I do when some team is "rankspiking" me in HA. Or shall we get rid of all emotes all together?

There other problems in this game than ranking or emoting over corpses. Some do it for fun, some indeed do it to prove themselves - poor sobs.

Good laugh. HA is High-End PvP? Even TA is much more competitive.

Of all the dumb things ArenaNet added to the game, this one is... Is...



I lack words to describe such level of retardedness.

Maybe, but if true then I also tend to think how bad the person getting corpse humped would have to be to be killed by said awful individual.

If doing that is such a bad player then it doesn't matter as you should rarely see said emote being done over your corpse. If it bothers you when someone does it to you then just think how bad you must be if said horrid player is doing that to you. Sure they are Nubs who went to PvXWiki and simply copied a build - but then how crappy are you that you can't even beat said scrub no skill build from PvXWiki?

Of course, if you are good enough then it is all irrelevant as you will very very rarely see it (nor do you care about /rank elitism as you are in a top guild). It seems to me that most of the complainers are not looking forward to bad players constantly lording it over them when the complainers loose (after all it took skill, dedication, and extreme teamwork to get beaten by no talent cookie cutter teams).

Any and all titles are mostly purchasable or grindable now - many of the top guilds are selling invites and title grinding so even *that* has been purchasable for quite some time. If you actually think anything other than winning in PvP is respected you are a fool (and even then one can see the losers rarely ever respect it, there is always a reason why loosing is more respected in their mind) - if you are getting ranked enough times to notice then you are loosing and no one else cares about any thing else.

what so wrong about emote anyways??

you do like it cause people spam it on you when you die?? people spam it like it something special???

if you answer yes to all then I suggest you take some time off...emote are dumb I agree but no real reason to hate them...

/sigh
There are things you can do over a corpse. And least AN could do is NOT adding pathetic emotes.

Not only that. The official site makes it look like that this usage was the reason behind its creation. Basically it looks like ANet is saying, you are supposed to use it like that.

Shot them selves several times.

Thank god Anet lightened up, is all I can say.

It's a taunt emote, big deal? What if people did /dance over your corpse or /sit on it. Most of the games I have played, MMOs and FPS games alike have had some kind of taunt emote.

I think their current stance on ranking people was made pretty obvious by the Charr in EotN tigering dead players.

Taunt is unsportmanship and it is bad that ANet specifically made an emote just for that. ANet can´t prevent misuse of emotes.

The Charrs get 10 energy and 5 strikes of adrenaline, when it is used.

Still find /excited on top of my dead corpse the most insulting
Would have preferred a emote linked to your amount of Balthazar faction though and not for those keys ... but i guess they don't like Max titles on introduction.

Like I said before, have fun with it ... it's a game and what would be competitive play without taunting?

the only emote truly worth doing over a dead body is a bambi. nothing else.

Augie (iQ) ranked Flyy (iB) during the GWFC at Leipzig Games Convention (possibly the biggest games convention in the world) in front of hundreds of live fans, and tens of thousands who later watched the recorded match. People loved it, the crowd went wild, and that could have been the turning point of Anets perspective on it.

Lighten up, seriously. It could possibly be considered bad sportsmanship like if you are an uptight englishman with a passion for cricket, tea and trouser presses. It's no different to pre/post-match banter and is all part of a competitive PvP game. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

It's still ranking a corpse, and I fail to see how Anet giving it additional benefits changes that.

Can't you chaps do something else besides debate PvE and PvP?

I assume in your world, the only permissible actions are handshakes before and after competitive play? Shall we next remove the ability for players to win since it is unkind to those that don't by implying they are losers?

I don't think the emote is much of an insult to the defeated opponent. I think it says something more along the lines of...

"Phew, that was a tough one. I managed to work up quite a sweat fighting you! Hmm.. I fancy a pint of Strongbow."

A lot more fun without the a**holes.

Another embarrassing moment for Anet. It's like that person who named his character 'brawling headbutt' and the character got blocked while the same name is used as a skill in the game. Contradictions pop up on a regular basis now it seems.

I don't know what's going on at Anet lately, but it may be time to streamline the team and get their act together.

Like in Tennis?

Unlike in Tennis?

Taunting/Insulting has nothing to do with competition. It is the idiots who think otherwise.

if you get mad if someones /ranks you than you have a problem

maybe Anet realised that now.