I know that, back when these emotes like /frown and /smile were added, the game had no way of implementing them due to the stiff face models caused by 2004 tech and all that.
But now all of them do.
So if I do a /smile, can my character please actually smile?
I just noticed this in the selfie thread and… now it bothers me. -_-
Sure but it’ll cost you a raid tier.
i think it’s very deep in the RP to find the smile on the character.
Personally what i want is to share emotion in tchat like :.smile: to 
Because like in middle of battleground or when you talk in party /e is not shared on the tchat but only to people around you.
Emoji will be cool.
Reeeeally now 
It might cost some customisation options I guess. But that’s about it.
Those exist in StarCraft 2! You can even buy them as microtransactions lol.
Wouldn’t mind those things coming to WoW. It’d be even more fun if your player race changed the appearance of them xD
Smiles and frowns are simply too small, likely to be wasted if no-one but the smiler or frowner sees them. Larger actions like boops and hugs would be far more noticeable by the huggee and boopee.
I’d personally love this. Also, please add more emotes like the ones the Zandalari and the KT NPCs are using.
I’m glad we don’t have to hear excuses like that any more 
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The weirdest thing about that assertion, and I know it’s a joke, is that it isn’t even an animation job. The animations already exist! They’re in use all over the place in cutscenes. For Pandaren specifically the /sad emote is liberally in use at Zhu’s Watch, and there’s many other examples of this.
It is entirely a systems designer and programmer job.
Now, I think there’s a lot of people here who would be most pleased with systems design effort on things like this, or unique items, as opposed to all the crazy temporary power systems that are being put into Shadowlands - and for more reasons than one!
That would be great, especially /fart and /spit should be animated.
I really would love to see /hug emote getting some animation to it! Like you type /hug at a person, he/she replies with the same and characters start hugging if they’re close enough
I actually agree with OP.
Other mmorpgs already can do that.
WoW is behind on the RPG element for personal character emote.
I mean… honestly, looking at the direction of WoW over the course of the last 8 years - certainly since the release of MoP but possibly earlier - this is what you would expect.
I have long written on this forum that WoW stopped being an MMORPG. It is no longer about character interaction and our physical identities in a virtual world where we chat and make friends and express ourselves in the context of a fantasy land.
They’ve completely forgotten about all that - and this is another strong piece of evidence for that.
To be fair, I actually think the current development team understands that. But Jay Allan Brack did not, and he was the design director for the game.
It’s never too late to restore this game. I just hope and pray they can do it before Blizzard itself takes severe damage - and judging by what’s happening… it might be too late. Classic has bought a lot of time though.
But that’s actually one of the reasons I’m asking for this. Doing a proper /hug, or just being able to change my facial animation to express my feelings without resorting to text or voice comms - that’s HUGE for the game that WoW wants to be, and was.
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