Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Enjoying the game so far, seems to be thought out and well designed in many aspects, but alas, the pool of choices for emotes seems incredibly shallow. It’s not a huge problem, but it would be a nice improvement to make, and would certainly benefit the role play aspect of the game.

Also, you can’t sit on chairs in this game. At first I thought it was a bug, and that my character had somehow glitched the chair and as a result was unable to sit on it, but as I learnt that you indeed couldn’t sit on chairs, I was flabbergasted, whose idea was it to not include something so simple and yet so important?

So yeah, maybe it’s just me, but I believe the game would be much improved with these additions.

I think ANet should add emotes in the form of speech bubbles, similar to how signets pop up their symbol when you use them.

And this wouldn’t just be for social purposes.

Things like “Smile”, “Sob”, “Rage”, “Laugh”, “Featful”, “Shocked”, “Salute” would allow players to much more easily communicate their immediate reactions to certain things in real time combat during dungeons, WvW, sPvP, etc.. (for the latter, they could make it so enemies can’t see emotes)

It would greatly eliminate the gap between players who don’t use voice-chat and those who do. (And any informed gamer knows why voice-chat isn’t a perfect system.)

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I have attached a picture below, of the many emotes found in MapleStory, where characters are always facing the screen, making it easier to read.
Having emoticons like these pop up (animated or not) would allow players to express themselves even if they’re facing a different direction and eliminate the need for typing in a lot of cases.

I can sit on chairs just fine. Also more emotes would be nice, but I’m thinking along the lines of physical ones like “talk” (NPCs appear to have a talk animation, but not players), “shiver”( possibly more emotes from GW?), or shout emotes (the player shouting being the physical part) like “Hostile contact”, “Help”, “Fall back”, “defend @” (@ being the allie you want to defend. Of course the player wouldn’t say the name of the allie; possibly just say “Defend this allie”) etc… , also those speech bubble emotes sound like a cool idea.