Forced emotes - worse than ever

[Cakellene]

And you wonder why I keep telling the likes of you that it's your way or the highway - you have zero capability to offer anything other than your skewed view of everything don't you? Even in a so called sumation of this entire thread you HAVE to add your skewed opinion to it and rubber stamp that as 'what this argument is all about' I have, do and will continue to laugh at you.

What was skewed? His post seemed a concise summary of thread to me.

[Mirarian]

And you wonder why I keep telling the likes of you that it's your way or the highway - you have zero capability to offer anything other than your skewed view of everything don't you? Even in a so called sumation of this entire thread you HAVE to add your skewed opinion to it and rubber stamp that as 'what this argument is all about' I have, do and will continue to laugh at you.

Manstan and I have butted head on other issues in these forums often enough but when you boil this issue down to where the rubber meets the road the issue IS

Don't you dare take my FE's away from me or curtail them in any way

vs

Either remove them entirely or let me opt out and not deal with them

Some people have added in shades of grey and suggested compromise methods but the actual issue is as stated above. Manstan's ego can be abrasive but in this case he isn't really wrong.

[PerinStone]

Don't you dare take my FE's away from me or curtail them in any way

Who is arguing this side? From all of the posts on this topic that I have seen, this has been a very small number of posts. Saying that everyone who isn't on the "opt out toggle" side "doesn't want to lose their ability to harass other players" is not true.

One side thinks that "Forced Emotes" are a terrible thing and anyone who uses them are "griefers". The other side thinks that side 1 is overreacting and they aren't that big a deal.

If Turbine can put in the much discussed toggle without causing other issues then I don't think many people would care. Even those who love using the festival emotes.

[manstan]

And you wonder why I keep telling the likes of you that it's your way or the highway - you have zero capability to offer anything other than your skewed view of everything don't you? Even in a so called sumation of this entire thread you HAVE to add your skewed opinion to it and rubber stamp that as 'what this argument is all about' I have, do and will continue to laugh at you.

"As I said, the language may be extremely biased" me.

Please, show me where I am wrong. Can you?


"If Turbine can put in the much discussed toggle without causing other issues then I don't think many people would care. Even those who love using the festival emotes." PerinStone

Perhaps you should read back through the thread again, there are several posts where people expound on how an opt out would effect their game play. I've read everything from it would prevent them from finishing deeds; or make it take an obnoxiously long time. To it preventing them from playing the game the way they want to. Ether way it is the same thing, they don't want people to be immune to their emotes.

[Harbut]

This argument has 2 sides, one wants to be able to opt out of forced emotes and the other doesn't want them to opt out of forced emotes. The biggest share of this arguing is nothing more then differing opinions, justifications and explanations. Nether side is going to given an inch. One side just wants to be left be while playing the other doesn't want to lose their ability to harass other players. One side is giving explanations as to why they want to be left be to play, and the other is giving justifications as to why it is OK to harass other players so shouldn't lose the ability to do so.
As I said, the language may be extremely biased, but that really is what this argument is all about. If the mods came through and deleted every post that was just a personal opinion these threads wouldn't be but a page or two long.

Seems to sum it all up in a nutshell in my mind aswell
Whats the problem with that?
hang on running low on popcorn

[maxjenius]

One side thinks that "Forced Emotes" are a terrible thing and anyone who uses them are "griefers". The other side thinks that side 1 is overreacting and they aren't that big a deal.

If Turbine can put in the much discussed toggle without causing other issues then I don't think many people would care. Even those who love using the festival emotes.

There are at least three sides: the two you mentioned plus the side of the reasonable folk who say "Regardless of how I feel personally about using or being targeted by pranks, I understand there are those who do not like being targeted by them and those who like to get the deed associated with their use. An opt-out toggle which disables the effect on the target yet which still allows the user to advance the deed gives everyone what they want."

[Neumi]

The AoE emotes do not show in the emotees combat log.

They do for the caster, at least they did for me. I didn't have the chance to test if they show at the targets.

[Glenwin]

Why can't you just stop throwing insults at each other?

It is already confirmed by Scarycrow that we will get at *least* hotspots which will protect us from forced emotes with U10. And hopefully we even get more protection and hopefully without negating the deeds that are tied to the prank-items.

It seems to me that Turbine dev's have made a decision on this discussion. It's only a matter of time till we get told what they will do beyond putting hotspots into the map.

There is no need to insult anyone anymore.

[Cakellene]

Why can't you just stop throwing insults at each other?

There is no need to insult anyone anymore.

But what's left of forum PVP when insults are removed?

[manstan]

There are at least three sides: the two you mentioned plus the side of the reasonable folk who say "Regardless of how I feel personally about using or being targeted by pranks, I understand there are those who do not like being targeted by them and those who like to get the deed associated with their use. An opt-out toggle which disables the effect on the target yet which still allows the user to advance the deed gives everyone what they want."

Sorry Max, that still puts you on the in favor of an opt out side. Ether you are in favor of it or not, there isn't really an in between.

Glenwin you are right. If they are putting in serious business zones then it is quite apparent where Turbine stands on this matter.

[Rawkan]

I'm actually surprised that they're not up for purchase in the store yet.
From turbines standpoint it would be good marketing to add them.

[Siegfriedpf]

Bad new everybody--the "Serious Business" flag is not in place at the new stage outside the Pony, nor at the beer garden of the Bird and Baby. I'm not bothering to check the Methel Stage. I'm rather disappointed and hope to see Scarycrow post here on what happened.

[Whart]

Bad new everybody--the "Serious Business" flag is not in place at the new stage outside the Pony, nor at the beer garden of the Bird and Baby. I'm not bothering to check the Methel Stage. I'm rather disappointed and hope to see Scarycrow post here on what happened.

Oh, that is so disappointing to hear! I hope that makes it into a patch soon.

[Gripn]

Bad new everybody--the "Serious Business" flag is not in place at the new stage outside the Pony, nor at the beer garden of the Bird and Baby. I'm not bothering to check the Methel Stage. I'm rather disappointed and hope to see Scarycrow post here on what happened.

I thought the "Serious Business" flag was promised for U10, not U9?

[Siegfriedpf]

For the Pony stage, it was announced as being in today's update. I had the impression that was to be the case for the beer garden & methel stage as well, with others being added for 10. We'll have to see what Scarycrow or another bluename tells us.

[maxjenius]

I thought the "Serious Business" flag was promised for U10, not U9?

Yes, per this message:

We are currently having discussions about how to address this issue on a global scale. However, in the meantime I can add these hotspots so you'll have a few safe places for U10.

[Siegfriedpf]

This is the original post on this thread that mentioned the flags being added at all:

When U9 goes live you'll have a stage outside the prancing pony with the Serious Business hotspot so you can play music in peace without any of those pesky forced emotes.

So, now unclear whether all are for update 10, or if one or more were due in update 9 and got missed.

[Acasta]

Mmm...

I never was a supported of forced emotes, and each time there is a festival, it only encourages the miss-use or abuze of the forced emotes, I now hate when we get into a festival season for it means forced emote pranking will be much worse than other times.

I used to craft at Bree and Galtrev, but when festivals occur, i go look for more obscure crafting places where I can be left in peace to my crafting.

Frankly, I would prefer forced emotes be restricted to only work in specific areas such as the festival areas, and nowhere else; thus it would be known if you enter a festival area you are free game to emotes.

Sue

[manstan]

Darlgon I'd like to add something to that from personal experience. When I was 8 years old my father held me down and tickled me till I lost control of my bladder, then spanked me for wetting my school clothes. I haven't been ticklish since, and find someone trying to tickle me more aggravating the FEs.

[Thorgrum]

This is about what I expected this thread to devolve to. Tickling and pissing ones pants, a spanking reference is just icing on the cake.

Still no toggle, which is baffling but the forced emote threads are normally amongst the most entertaining.

[manstan]

That is the problem with your argument. They are not even close to being the same.

With your profest intelligence it never ceases to amaze me that you don't see the similarities.
{nope, never going to find the right spelling for that one}

[Essefen]

So let me understand this.

The dev team decided, in all their infinite wisdom they constantly show, that it was a good idea to let other players TAKE AWAY the roleplay control from MY character and make them puppet masters over MY character? Tools of epic griefing?

And people wonder why I want the entire current LOTRO dev team sacked and replaced with a new one.

Time to macro a custom spit emote...

[Lestache]

So let me understand this.

The dev team decided, in all their infinite wisdom they constantly show, that it was a good idea to let other players TAKE AWAY the roleplay control from MY character and make them puppet masters over MY character? Tools of epic griefing?

And people wonder why I want the entire current LOTRO dev team sacked and replaced with a new one.

Time to macro a custom spit emote...

Between this and your open tapping post, dude... get some perspective.

(The post in question:

1) Every dev who green lighted this system originally, needs to be fired and their name blacklisted and NEVER allowed to ever become part of the gaming industry again.

2) Somebody should make a memorial site so that we should never forget that the most foolish idea in MMO history got past testing phase. The devs who played a part in green lighting this idea should be named and shamed on this site, and this site should be referenced for decades to come for future MMOs as a serious "What never to do" in multiplayer gaming platforms.

)

It's a game. Just a game. I think that the developers make some poor decisions myself, and I spend far more time disparaging this game than I do praising it, but advocating for the devs' wholesale firing because they've implemented something that you didn't like is... unbalanced.

If McDonald's introduces a sandwich that you don't like, do you rant at their offices demanding the heads of everyone responsible?

Other people don't exist solely to make everything you interact with conform to your exact desires, and a video game certainly doesn't. If you have that much outrage to spare, use it for something worth the outrage, something that matters - not a stupid video game.

With any luck and if karma is just, if you make a poor decision at your job, some nutcase will rant and rage for you to be fired and it will happen.

[maxjenius]

Time to macro a custom spit emote...

I use /laugh to make a ;feebleskills alias with the following output: "Max laughs at Player A's feeble skills" when someone uses a prank on one of my characters. But I usually don't care if my characters get pranked (although I am in favor of an opt-out toggle).

When I use it, it makes me think of Emperor Palpatine in The Return of the Jedi.

[UrsaMinor]

Between this and your open tapping post, dude... get some perspective.

(The post in question:

)

It's a game. Just a game. I think that the developers make some poor decisions myself, and I spend far more time disparaging this game than I do praising it, but advocating for the devs' wholesale firing because they've implemented something that you didn't like is... unbalanced.

If McDonald's introduces a sandwich that you don't like, do you rant at their offices demanding the heads of everyone responsible?

Other people don't exist solely to make everything you interact with conform to your exact desires, and a video game certainly doesn't. If you have that much outrage to spare, use it for something worth the outrage, something that matters - not a stupid video game.

With any luck and if karma is just, if you make a poor decision at your job, some nutcase will rant and rage for you to be fired and it will happen.

If McDonalds made a sandwich that they add to my order and charge me for in addition to what I wanted, you're darn right I'd be making some noise to their management. I would much prefer my LOTRO game to be "you want FEs with that?"