Upcoming Shards of Domination Set Bonus Buffs, Spit Emote Removed on TBC Classic PTR

Will this be the first thread where Asmon is mentioned and people won't be able to rage?
Btw, he's most likely being sarcastic

Can't tell if that Bald One comment is sarcastic or sincere, considering he was one of the many who promoted it when 6-month sub mounts started happening.

It's a futile gesture and Muffinus has it all backwards. They truly do not understand the issues this game has. /spit in Classic is a consequence of bad decision making. Not inherent toxicity in the player base. In any case, people will use /fart, /pick and /slap emotes now. Are they going to sterilize the game from that as well? Might as well disable all chat functions then.

Originally Posted by Voidwielder

Can't tell if that Bald One comment is sarcastic or sincere, considering he was one of the many who promoted it when 6-month sub mounts started happening.

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Thats a lie, it was Mconnell who did it.

Originally Posted by Tietoso

Thats a lie, it was Mconnell who did it.

There are literal VODs of the Bald One encouraging it.

Anti-Toxicity tech. Ah yes.

Step 1: Remove /spit
Step 2: Remove any group content
Step 3: Remove any chat functionality
Step 4: Make it a 100% single-player game

If they don't end up with Step 4 this game will always have toxicity issues. Removing the spit emote will change NOTHING.

Changing things that have nothing to do with the allegations so look like they are doing something.

Originally Posted by Voidwielder

In any case, people will use /fart, /pick and /slap emotes now. Are they going to sterilize the game from that as well? Might as well disable all chat functions then.

seems like that's exactly the case.
although i for the first time really don't think WoW is climbing out of this one anyway.

LOL you can kill another player, you just can't spit on them!

I want to say something that hasn't been said a million times about the ridiculousness of removing /spit. Why doesn't blizzard just move forward with removing chat altogether. The real play is when they just get rid of other people altogether. The anti-toxcicity nuclear solution. I'd find some weird pleasure in seeing JAB spammed with /spit on twitter.

"A lot of the flirt lines are super sexual. Should we remove some?"
"Lmao no just disable the spit emote."

I can't tell if Blizzard is trolling or if they think this is a change people wanted.

Originally Posted by daytonbrown

LOL you can kill another player, you just can't spit on them!

Because the parameters are different. You're not ACTUALLY killing anyone - they come back to life immediately, no harm done. But the emotional damage done by toxic behaviors has real and lasting consequences. Characters dying in-game does not.

This isn't about what's being done to CHARACTERS, it's about what's being done to PLAYERS.

Originally Posted by Biomega

Because the parameters are different. You're not ACTUALLY killing anyone - they come back to life immediately, no harm done. But the emotional damage done by toxic behaviors has real and lasting consequences. Characters dying in-game does not.

This isn't about what's being done to CHARACTERS, it's about what's being done to PLAYERS.

I have seen people put their heads through walls when they die in a game. People emotionally hurt by a game need professional help immediately.

Originally Posted by Biomega

Because the parameters are different. You're not ACTUALLY killing anyone - they come back to life immediately, no harm done. But the emotional damage done by toxic behaviors has real and lasting consequences. Characters dying in-game does not.

This isn't about what's being done to CHARACTERS, it's about what's being done to PLAYERS.

are you for real?......if being emoted on in a game causes RL problems, maybe you shouldn't game for gaming sake.

Originally Posted by Nathreim

Changing things that have nothing to do with the allegations so they look like they are doing something.

THIS IS EXACTLY RIGHT, hey players, look over here at these villains that are not being shills for Blizzard and see how we get rid of there brief moment of protest.

Damage control.... pathetic

Originally Posted by Biomega

Because the parameters are different. You're not ACTUALLY killing anyone - they come back to life immediately, no harm done. But the emotional damage done by toxic behaviors has real and lasting consequences. Characters dying in-game does not.

This isn't about what's being done to CHARACTERS, it's about what's being done to PLAYERS.

The way I see it, Shop connoisseurs make in-game tickets that go something like ''I was /spit on because I ride my 25 Euro mount and I don't like it'', that goes through GM's to the bean counters and the bean counters value their Shop connoisseurs more than the vast majority of the player base.

I like how people are complaining about spit being gone, but not the toxic/bullying behavior that people were using it towards. You ever wonder were the negative behavior of blizzard came from? It didn't manifest out of the blue, its endemic of the video game community at large. How many games have "cancerous" communities? A lot, think a lot of us need to look in the mirror and realize there's a lot of work that needs to be done on the home front before we start throwing rocks.

Originally Posted by Biomega

Because the parameters are different. You're not ACTUALLY killing anyone - they come back to life immediately, no harm done. But the emotional damage done by toxic behaviors has real and lasting consequences. Characters dying in-game does not.

This isn't about what's being done to CHARACTERS, it's about what's being done to PLAYERS.

congratulations on your going over 9000 shill score...

Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero

"A lot of the flirt lines are super sexual. Should we remove some?"
"Lmao no just disable the spit emote."

I can't tell if Blizzard is trolling or if they think this is a change people wanted.

that is just because they feel it's for them, if this would really affect players -or employees.- it wouldn't matter to them.

"No king rules forever", remember?

Originally Posted by bledgor

I like how people are complaining about spit being gone, but not the toxic/bullying behavior that people were using it towards. You ever wonder were the negative behavior of blizzard came from? It didn't manifest out of the blue, its endemic of the video game community at large. How many games have "cancerous" communities? A lot, think a lot of us need to look in the mirror and realize there's a lot of work that needs to be done on the home front before we start throwing rocks.

Toxicity is an emerging property of bad laws/designs in online games. Take M+ for example - the fact that it's time constrained, high risk, high stress environment paired with social anonymity means people have little to no accountability for fucking someone over and getting away with it. I was the black sheep on my realm for weeks because I ninja'd Hourglass in TBC 14 years ago.

They promised never to introduce something like that mount or level boost in Classic WoW. And they did. And they don't care about the backlash and what people thought of it. They went ahead with it. They were the ones /spit on the Classic community. But there's no way to /spit back on Blizzard without flipping the table and walking away (as MadSeason did). So (few) players /spit on people who ride that mount. That's a consequence of Blizzard being stupid and bad towards their own player base.