Avatar mute option
please add an option to mute in game emotes and just everything to do with the avatars. Emote spamming is really annoying and the long animation at the end of games is just pointless. It would just be cool if we had the option to turn that stuff off
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I think everyone agrees with you, but there are tons of posts requesting this for more than 2 years... they just don't listen or care.
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Hey there, @trainer381277! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience with us. We'll share your feedback with the rest of our team for review.
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@Mod_Bee Yes — please share this feedback. People dislike the emojis / avatar animations, but have gotten tired of saying it. Just get rid of it all, or at least opt to turn it off. The problems are endless: incessant repeated spamming, obnoxious emoji, arrogant avatar phrases, … Their availability *promotes* bad behavior, seriously outweighs any positives, and detracts from the game. You learn to ignore it, but why are we forced to?
What's also surprising is that the developers include rude emoji choices, like the shoulder-shrug, tilt-head-to-side or the thumbs down, and all three end of game avatar animations are kind of obnoxious. People have gotten to be unpleasant enough in anonymous forums — why make it easy? People already find ways to use even more benign emotes to be rude — like I've seen multiple times now where the opponent draws at the start of their turn, gives the sad shoulder slump one (which you might benignly use if you are drawing poorly), but then goes on to win that turn (so they are mocking their opponent).
The Pokemon Company of course knows that there are kids on the platform. We don't need our kids subjected to unsportsmanlike behavior, especially if it can be readily fixed. Just the other day, my 6 year old received a head tilt emote on the final knock-out by the opponent (close game that my child played without my help at all, had 1 prize card left, and would have won the next turn). My kid wasn't bothered (in these cases, we just laugh and comment about how childish the opponent is), but I've had to repeatedly talk thru the poor behaviors of immature players — AFKs, concedes literally right when the prize cards are being drawn, obnoxious emoji, emoji spamming, etc. — and how sadly many there are. The Pokemon Company will take steps against a top 8 competitor in the World Championships for immature conduct; let's make this platform a cleaner space too.
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Oh boy… another request for the understandable removal of a toxic feature that TPCi never bothered to discuss with mental health professionals and the usual "We'll share your feedback with the rest of our team for review"canned response from a mod (does anyone actually believe this? 'cause I sure don't!).
@hylozoe Unfortunately I really doubt TPCi will ever get rid emotes unless someone takes legal action over it. If the rumors about the shuttering of Online's in-match chat functions are true it took a lot of traumatizing events (kid does the unthinkable over toxic responses, parents sue TPCi for not doing enough to prevent the kid from doing the unthinkable, TPCi settles the matter outside of court to prevent besmirching the IP's name, TPCi tells Dire Wolf Digital to shutter it, etc.) for that to happen.
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