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oyo32
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Literally.
Emotes are now "banned". Trying to use any emote will result in a message:
"Banned command emote"
Or if you are using chat commands:
"Banned command em"
"Banned command e"
I guess you could call this a fatal error!
EDIT: Ah, saw trailturtle's post in a topic. Still, I find this hilarious. Emotes causing zone crashes? Has CO's code become this unstable?
A week (or even more) without emotes. How will you survive?
Emotes are now "banned". Trying to use any emote will result in a message:
"Banned command emote"
Or if you are using chat commands:
"Banned command em"
"Banned command e"
I guess you could call this a fatal error!
EDIT: Ah, saw trailturtle's post in a topic. Still, I find this hilarious. Emotes causing zone crashes? Has CO's code become this unstable?
trailturtle wrote: »To resolve these disconnects, we've temporarily disabled all emotes -- using emotes was the cause of the zone crashes.
I know that the emotes are a fun part of Champions, so we're working to get them fixed and reactivated as soon as possible. I don't have a timeline on that, but it might be a few days or a week. It's unfortunate, but having the game be stable has to be our first priority.
Thanks everyone for your help identifying possible causes, I really appreciate it.
-TrailTurtle
A week (or even more) without emotes. How will you survive?
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Anything that gets a "bug fix" around here ends up worse than it started with.
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I say stuff and I say things, sometimes together but only when I'm feeling adventurous.
I'm @blu8 in game!
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So, I shall confine my indignation to this by thinking inappropriate thoughts, directed randomly.
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And this problem has been around since beta to boot - how about fixing everything properly instead of these band aid tactics that hurt your bottom line?
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This. Honestly I think the team has really crappy days at work: "You gotta be kidding me...emotes? I've been working for months, we're getting closer, shepherding a new era in CO...emotes?!!! I'm gonna go wreck a car, at least I'll know why its broken."
My heart goes out to you.
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Absolutely no other MMO I have played had a simple thing like emotes create problems.
I say stuff and I say things, sometimes together but only when I'm feeling adventurous.
I'm @blu8 in game!
...This is why we can't have nice things....
And hell, even good gestures and even hard >paid< work get frowned upon and shunned in masses..
and to think i had HOPE that things were going to get better
whats next the whole disablement of chat?
maybe of mission NPCs
best yet instances! lets disable instances!
and just a hint of advice for the dev team all 2 of you, you guys better stop sitting on your hands, and start doing your JOBS because this is getting really old REALLY fast
if you expect to even keep people to even PLAY this game, it should be an a playable state, not a half finished buggy mess like it currently is
The Nemesis system needs fixing and here's ideas:
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
Wow, then Vibora Bay gets rather missionless :biggrin:
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I disagree. I'm seeing plenty of rage.
Rage is an emotion. And there's a lot of it.
So, CO has a LOT of emotion.
This has all happened before and this will all happen again.
So say we all.
It's only temporary!
Yeah. Uh huh.
Like taxes...
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and "nothing was polished".
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I really do hope that emotes will be returned soon, and not "soon" (TM).
Otherwise game may lose even more players. RPers were sizeable part of the playerbase because it's easy to suffer occasional bugs or imbalances when you are using game also for RP. Now, if even RP is harmed, there is not too much reasons to even log in.
So game first lost PvPers, then large part of challengers, then it may lose RPers. And who's next? Costume makers? And who will finally stay?
That sounds silly. To quit a game because you can't do /e laugh, but you could still do some stuff like (Lucas Jackson laughs his butt off.) is just plain silly talk. I mean, were there any people that didn't play the game because there's no official way to talk out of character? Nah, people are fine with ((OOC dude go take a shower, I can smell you over the internet)).
Anyone who quits over not being able to emote is a silly person.
A lost customer is a lost customer. Beggars can't be choosers... too bad the beggar in this case doesn't care that they are such.
Champions Online: Be the hero you wish you could be in a better game.
Yeah, it's annoying- I agree with you, though. I mean... just do the 'Noob-Motes' like so.
*Licks lucasjackson's face just like that.*
But even I put my character's speech in quotations, so it's not much of a detriment to just not use /me.
Anyone who quits the game because of nonexistent PvP is a silly person.
As is anyone who quits the game because of one bugged powerset.
Or not enough challenge.
Because in the end it's only a world of pixels.
Different things are important for different people.
Now imagine that large part of the playerbase logins only for RP, considering CO overall playability, especially for long time players.
And they have to do it without ;SitChair. Or any other animation needed, depends which one.
After all, graphics are important, this isn't text based game. Small things will add, with enough of them player has simply no need to login.
Do CO can afford even less players?
In the end emotes are simply one more game system not available.
Churn, baby, churn.
I don't think reasons for quitting are all on the same level, here. Like, I can't /e cry is stupid compared to "I paid for 3 months of game time and it never showed up, I bought 50 bucks worth of zen and it disappeared, customer service won't do anything about it, and the arcades in the lounge are out!!!"
And it's only for a week or so. I mean, sure, that date can get moved around, but as of this moment, the emotes are gone for a week. Anyone who would quit over that is simply throwing a tantrum. Honestly, "I can't see my character sit. FOR A WHOLE WEEK!"
Can CO afford less players? Considering that it doesn't seem that they're very interested in keeping old players, and are interested in selling keys to the new players who'll just quit in a month anyway, and then do the same with the next guy? Yes, I think CO can live without a couple people who can't sit down for a week.
People who quit playing a game because it no longer provides what they find fun are silly?
I thought the point of games was that they're fun?
So if a game stops being fun for someone, what's their motivation for sticking around?
How long do you stick around during the process of "Death by a thousand cuts" before you decide you've had enough?
Champions Online: Be the hero you wish you could be in a better game.
If we had wall lean from CoH, then I would be upset.
"The build is now underway with fixes from both [name] and [name]. It will go to PTS in the morning."
We don't want to push anything before it's fully tested, and we don't want to put a fix on Live right before the weekend if we're not 100% confident -- but we are working to get this emote fix in as soon as possible. We know that this is an inconvenience, but if the alternative is crashing servers, we strongly believe this is the best possible option.
Really?
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*forums explode*
... :I
Still, timely fixes are good. If they come with bonus emotes that everyone's been requesting that'd be rad too, but I'm not expectin' 'em.
Well, ERP can be harder on some than others... sometimes you gotta be gentle.
[no sarcasim]
Thanks for the heads up, good work.
That's the point. There is no universal definition of fun.
Anyway, fix should be next week.
Meh, ERP will be fine. There are hot tubs in hideouts, right?
Sounds awesome, and yes, very good decision to test and not just shove the build live before the weekend. Thumbs up!
Yes! I think for this inconvenience, we should get the Air Guitar emote, because we deserve to be excellent to each other.
PARTY ON, DUDES!!!
Yeah but who stands in hot tubs? :P
It just isn't the same... QaQ Once you do it in the Club Caprice lounge, by the fountain, YOU NEVER GO BACK. Not even a hot tub can do it for ya anymore. Believe me, I've seen marriages ruined by this phenomenon.
Of course, it's not like the unhappy couple doesn't have a whole harem of demonvampirewolves to fall back on.
Oh its just one little thing begin taken from the game.
Okay here's another thing being taken from the game.
Now here's a whole bunch of small miniscule stuff from the game lost forever.
See the a carrot? You aren't getting this by the way. Here's lettuce instead.
By the way those little things that you liked playing that took longer than a couple hours to run through? Don't bother.
We're taking away this something that has been reported on for years because now we're bothering to fix it since its hurting our "priority" games too.
Sure. People are quitting just because of emotes being disabled.
And they are disabled because people are breaking the game with a long known problem.
I think you missed the context of that joke. Look at what I quoted and then read what I said.
I kinda like doing that sometimes.
Allegedly a "whole week." Knowing Cryptic, it'll probably take longer than that, if they ever bring emotes back at all, that is.
So I wouldn't hold my naive little breath if I were you.
Ok, I've tried to understand this time and time again and I simply cannot. Those bits I made red...why do they exist? Why are the names of the people(who I would guess are Lordgar just for the joke) hidden? Are they ashamed that they worked on CO? Is Cryptic afraid we'll figure out the actual dev team numbers(which, BTW, isn't a secret over at STO and wasn't a secret in CO in beta through the dev diaries)? Were they not cool enough to get codenames? Seriously, why the secrecy? I just don't get it.
If you cannot give me the answer behind the red bits that's cool. Don't lose your job over this or anything but PLEASE tell me why it's a secret and why you cannot. That's the bit I'm curious about.
P.S. I also don't get stealth patching, ESPECIALLY if it's a positive praise-worthy change. Just thought I'd add that bit while I was typing. :cool:
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What, you mean that thing where pieces in the Bestial Robot Set were given extra materials that was totally undocumented and completely awesome, or are you talking about something else??
Why the hell do my posts keep making new pages