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Are the avatar reactions really necessary?
I’ve hated the avatar reactions since they first started out as just emojis from PTCGO. The only thing that people use them for are to be jerks: gives thumbs up in a mocking manner when they are winning; gives thumbs up or a smile when they think someone is taking too long for their turn; gives an angry/frustrated face to give their opponent the impression that they don’t have the win, and then right afterwards they pull the cards they need right out of their hand to win the game.
these reactions literally are only used to mock peoples opponents, and it honestly makes it not fun to play when you also don’t have the ability to mute the opponents reactions. Why do we have them in the first place? What value do they actually bring other than a good laugh for people making fun of their opponents? Are these interactions really that necessary? If they are, CREATE A FUNCTION TO LET SOME OF US MUTE ALL FROM OUR OPPONENTS. Let’s stop all this toxic gameplay. In person at leagues or tournaments you wouldn’t openly mock your opponent. So why do we give that same ability to the keyboard warriors?
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The avatar emoting is quite obnoxious, I agree.
I actually recorded somebody last night who was emote-spamming me for almost 10 minutes straight with a game move made in-between timer checks lol.. It was something else.
Personally I would much rather have the canned chat back.
Regardless, alot of this BM'ing could be remedied by a simple addition of a cooldown mechanic after a user emotes by 30 seconds or so.
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As you say, a simple mute ability would go a long way if you feel you are being BMd or spammed. At this point, that would be a small quality of life improvement over all the major problems the game has, and is probably way down on the priority list. 😐️
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As you say, a simple mute ability would go a long way if you feel you are being BMd or spammed. At this point, that would be a small quality of life improvement over all the major problems the game has, and is probably way down on the priority list. 😐️
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I use it for sportsmanship.
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I personally think that, the avatar ability is awesome but, I think there should be something in the settings to turn it of,f so you don't see other people spamming or mocking
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Neither of the emote/strike-pose/catchphrase in the game is build around sportsmanship.
All of them are either flexing, boasting, being spiteful and/or mocking your opponent.
Some catchphrases can be taken as ironic joke, but still… nothing even remotely close to sportsmanship.
I mostly see emotes only when someone send "big grin thumbs up" when I'm in type disadvantage and loosing the battle, or thumbs down, when they easily destroy my deck strategy and win practically effortlessly.
I myself use only "confused" and "thumbs down" emote when they can already attack and take last prize to win the match, yet they decide to use all their pokémon abilities to draw more cards, use their supporters to pull more pokémon to the bench, attach energy card or whatever else, and needlessly prolong the match just to flex and irritate.
And they do this quite often.
There is rarely any sportsmanship in PTCGL.
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