Feature request: disable emotes.

[Aro]

Pretty simple, would like to disable both using and seeing emotes.

[Moro]

i saw this thread a few days ago and didnt comment at the time. however, i actually really would like a way to disable emotes as well. at first they can seem sort of fun the way the look and all. however, after a while they just get annoying. especially when your on a lose streak and the enemy is spaming emotes at you.

maybe its just me, but being on the receiving end of those really one sided matches that last less than a minute the last thing i want to see is happy smiling emotes saying "GG" because the game was not good at all. they know it, i know it... everyone does. ..but thats just me. i have always had a problem with people using GG for literally every circumstance.

[Fr33hoax]

I agree to some extent. Although I feel as though the train of thought here is that all though it maybe was not a good game if someone hits the GG button after such a situation it's always intended as BM but that's just not true. I try and hit GLHF WP and GG every match. That's how I learned and was thought to play competitive games. Like kids after a little league match. :D

[Eazotop]

M.i.A, confirmed starcraft player ^^

[Creature of Nature]

Yes pls

[Moro]

Originally posted by M.i.A. #LVP:

I agree to some extent. Although I feel as though the train of thought here is that all though it maybe was not a good game if someone hits the GG button after such a situation it's always intended as BM but that's just not true. I try and hit GLHF WP and GG every match. That's how I learned and was thought to play competitive games. Like kids after a little league match. :D

there is a lot of context lost with emotes and that is the major flaw of an emote system. where hypothetically if you were on a rl winning sports team and walked up to the losers then 'how' you say the "GG" and "WP" matters.

which is kind of the important take away here. as i said in the previous post the emotes get really annoying after a while. there is nothing to read into and no emotional context. its just a flat GG or WP...etc. to me it makes it sound a lot like taunting when i lose and someone posts that. like instead of just GG it subcosciously registers more like "hey GG nooblet". is that so far off? ppl are always saying similar to that.

[Erufailon]

Interesting, for me GG reads GG and that's it. But then again I never mean it in a taunting way neither, so maybe you read it like that, because you would use it like that?
Anywho, I can't check, because the servers are down, but if I remember correctly, you can disable your opponents emotes just by clicking at the same place you click for your own emotes. Or has it been removed?

[Moro]

Originally posted by Erufailon:

Interesting, for me GG reads GG and that's it. But then again I never mean it in a taunting way neither, so maybe you read it like that, because you would use it like that?
Anywho, I can't check, because the servers are down, but if I remember correctly, you can disable your opponents emotes just by clicking at the same place you click for your own emotes. Or has it been removed?

no if i were to say GG i legitimately mean "good game". which i dont use emotes. i mean there are games where the opponent played a good game and won/lost where i 'could' have used it. its just that as i said before any context that i could have given to the emotes is lost.

also, if i can turn off emotes in a battle thats great and all... really. however, thats not what is being asked here. what is being asked is an option in the settings to where you can toggle it 'on/off' rather than having to do it every game.