Guild Wars 2

Currently there is:
/laugh
/sit
/sleep
/cheer
/bow
/salute
/dance
/shrug

and maybe a couple more (another suggestion, make a list!) that I haven’t found. These are pretty cool, but really only a handful compared to pretty much any other MMO. Even EverQuest had /tap /kneel /cry /point /whistle /blush as well as a variety of alternate emotes that used the same animation. For example, /laugh /chuckle and /cackle all had the same animation, but added different flavor text to the emote, which in turn added more options for (and encouraged) roleplaying.

Additionally, allowing the player to craft their own emote and tie it with another emotes animation would do wonders for roleplaying. Instead of /shrug, the player could type something like “/em-shrug ponders where the heck to go next” and the output would be my character shrugging and the text “Pyrocat ponders where the heck to go next” would appear.

This game has a noted lack of socializing between strangers. Occasionally people will /bow or /say ty if you rez them, but there’s not a whole lot of non-task-based communication (outside of guilds).

Simple additions like more freedom with emotes, more visibility of what emotes are available, and more animations for emotes ALL contribute to making the world a more vibrant, social place. Please add them, I miss them every day I play.

Agreed, definitely more needed, yet I’m confident more will be added. Type some nonsense and you get an unknown command message, but common missing emotes (eg the lot from gw1) just…do nothing :P

I role play a lot. Can I have an emote for ‘back off buddy, your just not my type! ’. Telling this to them in various subtle ways via chat doesn’t seem to work, so maybe an animation will.

+1, btw