The emote spam issue

[Anathaer]

Over the years this has been an issue that never gets addressed. I understand emotes are for social interaction, but people abuse these a lot! And I, for one, am finally fed up.

There a lot of people that don't have their log text off. This is fine, if they moderate their output. Unfortunately there are plenty of people that play like 5-8 emotes in a row. If you're REALLY unlucky, they just emote spam to spam and won't even wait till the movement has ended or are just plain doing it to be annoying. This abuse of the emote system has to stop.

Please, my suggestion is: Do something about the emote spamming. Nothing major, just maybe something as simple as what some chats have as delay. Thus blocking the text of consecutive emotes. I am aware this is not something that will block sound and movement, but it doesn't have to. Just the flood of text. Sounds and motion can be dealt with, the spammed text is intrusive. This is especially annoying when trying to keep up with friend chat.

[Dualgunner]

They should set the emote text to off by default, would fix the problem pretty well.

[Anathaer]

They should set the emote text to off by default, would fix the problem pretty well.

Exactly, that might fix it indeed...

[Terin]

They should set the emote text to off by default, would fix the problem pretty well.

Agreed.

Funny story; I got my dad playing FFXIV last year, and it was during the Moonfire Faire where you had to use the "Dance" actions or something on that big shark?

Well, he assumed it was using "/dance" the EMOTE, and so he was spamming it, not understanding what the FATE was supposed to be.

So the next day, he calls me FREAKING OUT, because when he tries to log-in, he's ported to some "GM jail" or something. By all accounts, it looked like he'd been banned from the game! Turns out, a GM had been trying to notify him that he'd been reported for spamming emotes, but since my dad clearly didn't see the message, the GM ported his character to this area so he could talk to him. But every time my dad logged in, he'd immediately log back out, before a GM had a chance to even whisper him!

Kind of a funny story, but one that also shows it can be a weird system with equally weird solutions sometimes.

[ZioSerpe]

Are you seriously complaining about people using emotes?

[Kacho_Nacho]

Are you seriously complaining about people using emotes?

He's complaining about people spamming emotes not people using emotes. Still, the blacklist option is already there. We really don't need anything else.

[Makarrov]

Unfortunately there are plenty of people that play like 5-8 emotes in a row.

I'm guilty of this from time to time. I forget what the animations for the emotes look like so I go through some to look at them.

[Anathaer]

I'm guilty of this from time to time. I forget what the animations for the emotes look like so I go through some to look at them.

Actually that is not spamming as badly as I seen it. I can understand wanting to do that, especially for a screenshot or such and unknown to what they do. And if you turn off the text, it still works the same. The spam I always see is like 10 times worse...

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Why dont you just turn your chat filters on :S

[Etoile]