You can set people on fire. Poison them. Bleed them and cause all sort of virtual bodily harm to them. But God forbid you actually spit on them. This reminds me of the hipocricy with nudity in movies. Showing someone getting massacred, decapitated, dissected etc.? OK. Showing a nipple? Quickly bring the FBI and raid the place!
TLDR /spit is a form of player interaction. Instead of removing the ways players can interact with each other, how about we remove the actual problem, which is people who harass other players in game with insults etc. in /whisper?
I’m astonished there’s like 10 threads complaining about a single emote when you can emulate the same thing with another anyway. If this is the best constructive feedback the forums have to offer, no wonder Blizzard isn’t reading them.
I have been spat on while walking down the street at 2 a.m. by some random guy who I didn’t even know with 3 of his friends. I called him an ahole and then 2 more of his friends jumped out of some bushes. No idea what they were planning on doing but I didn’t stay to find out. I don’t know what happened in your case but still, I don’t corelate this irl experience with anything that happens in-game.
Saying that /spit is toxic is the equivalent of saying pvp creates real life violence. It is a videogame. It is fake. It doesn’t actually happen to us irl. Why should we remove these features from it?
Must be because some whale complained that when he was on his ridiculous SUV dragon, everybody around him spat on his whalie mount until he was embarrassed of himself.
Its kinda stoopid to compare those things to the spit emote. People /spit on others just because they had the mount in TBC. We even had people on this forum saying that the people with the mount shouldn’t be invited to groups or guilds. And it wouldn’t suprise me if some of these schoolyard bullies are flaming Blizzard.
I couldn’t care less about an emote I never use. And even if I did I wouldn’t care. I don’t play WoW because of an emote.
TBC a expansion done 14 years ago.
/Spit is inappropriate.
Here’s the question:
Why suddenly is inappropriate, even though it wasn’t at the time ?
The only reasonable explanation I can find is:
Someone at Blizzard didn’t like Asmongold fans using it in players that bought the mount …
Because if someone wants to harass someone else, there’s other emotes and they weren’t removed.
Don’t get me wrong, last time I used it was 15 years ago, when I was pissed, after someone used /rolf on me in a BG when I was farming my Rank 11.
That’s why I avoid PVP.
I learned in LoL it can quickly bring the very worst of human kind.
Like verbal abusing your own teammates and threatening to report for providing kills to the enemy team, when they are just having a bad game.
Wanna see the next thing to be removed from game ?
Just observe what Asmongold fans are doing …
You know, it’s a little obvious that /spit is usually directed to the person playing the character, whereas the gore side is usually directed to the character.
Like, I don’t really care either way and it’s a little obvious
