Smileys, Emotes, Lipsync

This game has a ton of attention to detail I really love. One of the coolest things is how you make eye contact with your targets and how your character does a little lipsync when you type in chat.

I was thinking it be really cool if the lipsync could go a step further and do simple emotes when players use very common emotes and abbreviations. For instance:

if you were to type "how's it going =D "
it would show up and chat and your character would do a smiling emote.

if you were to type "that's unfortunately LOL"
it would actually make your character do the laugh emote.

there's all kinds of other cool little things that could come out of this.

I think this is a really great idea. Should be fairly easy to pull off, especially when you consider that WoW already does this with "lol".

As long as there's a toggle off. I'd hate to be doing a really serious roleplay scene, only to make a joking comment in FC chat or whatever and have my character start laughing or smiling like a maniac. I really, really hated the auto emote system in TERA.