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

WoW is going to be the lamest game ever after ActiBlizz finishes sterilizing it. People are gonna claim they're being bullied because someone /spits on them? Fuckin' turn off emotes, if it's that big of a trigger. Holy fuck is this kind of shit cringey. We need to stop catering to society's lowest common denominators.

Originally Posted by sibut

We need to stop catering to society's lowest common denominators.

Sure do. That is why toxicity has no place.

Originally Posted by TriggeredKid

Imagine being surprised that you're being targeted in a version of WoW that was meant to never have micro-transactions like mounts, because you run around on your 40$ mount.

imagine actually caring someone else bought a mount on re-release of a 15 year old game.

but they added a /teabag emote

Originally Posted by agentsi

My take is if you think the /spit emote, was a toxic element of the game. You don't live in the same reality as everyone else.

By your standards, when a new Death Knight character makes his way to Orgrimmar, the NPC's in the game get pretty mean... They throw trash, spit on him, tell him to leave, curse him for all the bad things he has done. Should all of that be removed too? The NPC's are now bullying that player, and being toxic towards them. The game itself is now being toxic to the players. That's not acceptable is it? A player, in a fantasy MMO game, is being bullied, by the NPC's in the game, because he killed other NPC's in the game.

Do you see how fucking stupid that sounds?

Verbally abusing someone via chat, is FAR more toxic than an emote.

So now you use an in game storytelling moment that shows NPCs reaction to the player character, in story, as that of prejudice, hate, and misunderstanding to show hate towards the in game class (not the player themself) as comparison to people being openly toxic to the player, not anything in game.
Your example equates to: since the movie 12 Years a Slave exists then it’s okay to call poc the N word.
It doesn’t matter if something is more toxic. The fact that it is toxic at all is the problem, and Blizzard is taking steps against it due to the fact it was used to target a specific group of people. The fact it was specifically used to target people is what brought all this up.
Also, last I checked, you can absolutely report people for toxic and abusive behavior, not just for /spit.

Originally Posted by ShadowyFanatic

I say the game is finished because spastic social media posts about "combating toxicity" means hyperactive social justice attacks on people being adults on the internet. You can't /spit on someone? That's BULLYING?

Given the stance FF has on toxicity it is hilarious you think Blizzard attempting the same will kill the game while making FF grow. Even Asmogold stated WoW is toxic and he was a large source of it including the whole spit emote fiasco. Don't you find it funny how quickly his act changes when the game he is now streaming for doesn't allow his old persona?

Originally Posted by Asaliah

but they added a /teabag emote

Blizzard: removes /spit
343i: teaches bots to teabag

Originally Posted by TriggeredKid

Imagine being surprised that you're being targeted in a version of WoW that was meant to never have micro-transactions like mounts, because you run around on your 40$ mount.

that's the thing though; it's not about the store mounts. it's never been about the store mounts - if it was about the store mounts then you would see it being removed in retail as well, where there are a lot more store mounts than TBC. also, I am curious as to why it's only been disabled on the PTR - I am fairly certain they could test and hotfix something like that in without the need of a patch or testing on the PTR

Yes you do need to have a thicker than 0mm skin to play World of Warcraft. And that's true for every multiplayer game that has a far-reaching audience and where there is chat functionality involved.

Disabling a single emote solely because of the frequency of its targeted usage is just laughable and extremely exploitable.
Using the same rationale, what are they going to do when a streamer tells their armies to go /point /laugh /mock /rude at the same people who have been spat on?

Disable all these emotes?
Remove the entire chat functionality?

If you are bothered so much by other people's emotes, either

1) ignore said people, or
2) hide Emotes from your chat window.

So utterly sad that low-effort attention seeking brings results like this.

Originally Posted by rhorle

Why give a free pass to people harassing others just because it involves a cash shop item? It has everything to do with toxicity. If people were not using it to be toxic it likely wouldn't even have been thought of by Blizzard as a thing that needed to be removed.

.../spit deters people from buying store mount, blizzard wants more store mount purchases, removes ../spit its all about the money, if you can't see that, I'm sorry for you. I am one of those store mount buyers as well.

Originally Posted by Unlockmyhrt

.../spit deters people from buying store mount, blizzard wants more store mount purchases, removes ../spit its all about the money, if you can't see that, I'm sorry for you. I am one of those store mount buyers as well.

Which is harassment. An emote won't stop people from buying a store mount. Spit is not about the money but about people getting petty revenge against someone that isn't even to blame for what they are angry over.