Bring back the ‘sorry’ emote

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Think of when you’ve either won or are about to win and you know you’ve bene lucky

And the opponent also knows you’ve been lucky. I mean…obviously lucky

Or you know in your heart the other player either played well or deserved the win overall

Or you just liked their deck and respected the way they played.

If you’re feeling noble, wouldn’t you like to tap the ‘sorry’ emote?

Why was it ever removed?

Sarcasm is not a reason. In fact I think at least half the times ‘well played’ is used it is used sarcastically.

If any emote needed to be removed for whatever reason, it should have been ‘threaten’ as it serves no purpose. Its not funny. Its silly and wastes a slot

Sorry would mean something. And would often be a prelude to adding someone as a friend if deemed sincere.

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I second that. Nice idea!

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Officially it was removed to reduce cases of BMing.
I find it kinda funny though given the existence of a ‘Threat’ emote.

There’s a page on the Hearthstone Wiki that also touches on other emotes that I found interesting:

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There is no sorry in any healthy competition. Honor your opponent by not wasting his time and finish him without saying anything. If i do not like you then i wont allow you to finish me off. If i respect you i will allow you to finish me off. Saying sorry at that moment is disrespecting my honor im giving you. You are basically belittling me.

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BMing?? How ridiculous. And saying well played to someone you’ve just trashed within 5 turns is ok?
Not to mention Guldan saying “your soul shall suffer”.

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Actually bring more emotes to the game, even tho i always mute my opponent sometimes i do emote hoping they can see it, if they deserve it tho

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yeah and the way you just said that tells me you are one of the toxic players that will moch your opponent as you trash him huh?

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Only if they’re playing a brainless troll deck like face hunter or pirate warrior. That’s not being toxic. It’s the least we should do

One recent win was truly magnificent
Had Finley + wizard for turn 3. Almost immediate surrender
The sweetest way to dispose of troll hunters

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a deck is a deck. if the card is in their deck the card is legal and no one says otherwise what he can or cannot play. Who are you to decide what he may play and what he may not play?
Now you go be toxic because you dont like the deck he plays. Where does it end? No wonder the damn game is so infested by you freshly born players coming to decide the atmosphere of the game we older players have been playing for how many years.
You cant just come in here into the game and start deciding what is right and whats not when you barely know what goes on in the game on a technical level.
No wonder you lot dont enjoy the game and try to find fault with the game why you cant win when its because you you are not having fun why you cant win.

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So you never once accidentally clicked just next to the end turn button and didn’t notice until 20 seconds later the rope started? That for me was always a good reason to apologize.
And you never found an insane lethal or insane survival from a combination of multiple one-in-a-hundred chances? That for me was also a good reason to say sorry.

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Wow so many poor comments in 1 message. K well here goes…

I’ve made some other posts that are more mature and about actual gameplay. But if you can’t tell the difference between genuine comments and light hearted banter made in gest then you’re not the kind of person i’m interested in talking to.

I take shots at aggro players. So what. Its a game

You call yourself an older player and imply im a new player. I was around in the early years. I just took a few years out and came back a few months ago. I’ve probably been around longer than you.

You say i barely know what goes on at the technical level. Yet i’m one of those players that will hit legend playing control, including decks ive made myself like reno guidance priest that isn’t even meta currently.

So most likely i’m more knowledgeable than you are. Im also judging that by how stupid your post was.

You then spout a load of nonsense about me finding fault in the game and not winning etc. I lost track as it was quite boring to read.

Well i haven’t found fault in the game. I’m one of those people that defend it because i see the skill requirement where some others don’t.

A topic about emotes is hardly critical of gameplay. I think the game is great overall.

Go and have another drink, Chris. You know you want one :wink:

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I would prefer losing straight up than losing to a mistake he made.

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i Have 33 000 + ranked wins. Whats yours? And now you are trying to imply im a drunk when i havent had a drink in 8 years while my father was a alcoholic and ruin our family . Listen bro that nonsense might fly on other forums but not here. Thats not light hearted humor. Thats trolling. and flagged as such.

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Not the point. I was talking about situations where a sorry emote would in my opinion be appropriate and warranted.

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Sorry was a great emote when RNG won the game instead of playing your cards right.
Also good for when you roped your opponent unintentionally.
Think the only aggressive sounding “sorry” was Valeera. But she’s just a spicy emoter all round.
Better than the threat emotes, imo.

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I still remember playing old school control warrior years ago and was 1 turn away from losing.

Opponent had a full board but with only 7 or 8 health left.

I dropped Ragnaros and he made the 1 in 8 chance of scoring face for lethal

That wouldn’t have been the only time it happened, and I’d be guaranteed to tap the sorry emote every single time. I’d consider it BMing not to. I don’t like relying on RNG and it doesn’t get much luckier than that.

Might not seem a big deal, and of course it has no impact on gameplay. But I reckon it could have been 1 trusted guy in the dev team to make a decision like this. I doubt a team would have bad judgement on the subject of etiquette as a whole

Bad call. Should be overturned. I mean, how pointless is the “that was a mistake” emote?