Guild Wars 2

I just learned via the wiki how to use the /me command. I was (somewhat) elated as this basically means CUSTOM EMOTES which is wonderful. However. A friend of mine who doesn’t play (we’ll call him “Eddie”) has noticed (and subsequently informed me) that this emote has enormous potential for “misuse”. Quotes around the word misuse because I don’t think this is a bad thing, it makes the game even more fun and deepens the role playing experience. But I’ll stop beating around the bush. He thinks that it could be used for creating “odd, pervy, or just downright wrong” emotes.

I want some feedback on this. I mean, we’re gamers, so a pervy comment here and there is fine, especially with the chat-filtering options available. Is Eddie blowing things out of proportion? Or is this serious?

Ps. I overuse parenthesis. I know (Deal with it).

I think people who wish to abuse will do it regardless of this function. I don’t see anything wrong with it and I reckon normal chat rules would apply to this as well.

Not any different from any other MMO that allows them. Biggest problem with the emote system in that regard is that it’s harder to report someone based off their emote, since there’s no clickable portion of the name, as there would be in a /say line.

Hmm.. What’s the difference between /me and just typing out ‘I’ or ‘(Character Name)’ does whatever except for the color of the text? It’s not like the character actually does any emote or anything.

I don’t see how it could be ‘abused’ any more than just typing something. Am I missing something?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm.. What’s the difference between /me and just typing out ‘I’ or ‘(Character Name)’ does whatever except for the color of the text? It’s not like the character actually does any emote or anything.

I don’t see how it could be ‘abused’ any more than just typing something. Am I missing something?

Mostly confuses people who don’t know about it.

If I recall correctly it also has a much larger radius of being able to be seen versus typing something in the /say box.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

If I recall correctly it also has a much larger radius of being able to be seen versus typing something in the /say box.

Oddly, if you’re teamed with someone, the range goes anywhere in the zone.

I really, REALLY can’t see the logic in that.

The abuse comes from people using custom emotes to disrupt others’ play. There are two ways they do this: 1) emote lewd crude things to RPers (because the Block feature does not block custom emotes and a ban won’t happen in one minute after the /report) and 2) spam the emotes constantly to scroll the RP text away (again, unblockable).

Making /em blocked when you Ignore someone would solve so much.

(semi-related, so would giving us a better color than dull grey … /pet project)