Emotes in Anthem

For the record, swtor does have emotes. Not sure if they are ever used. Most of them were blocked for free to play so they could sell access to them

What do you check email on etc? Smart phones haven’t been around that long.

They were ok. I hardly ever usd them. I chuckled when the wave emote fired automatically. Why was my evil sith giving a cheery wave when he arrived at a quick travel point?

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O2 hate the XDA in 2003 nokia had the communicator phones since 1997 (I know I had one issued to me by work back then) and in 1999 several MSFT partners produced touch screen devices which were like the early rim phones for clunckyness and lacklustre performance (I had several of those devices as well over the years, hands down worst one was the storm) my personal phone from 2006 was the nokia 5800 (smallest smartphone with full touchscreen capability and note taking through handwriting capture via the hardpoint stylus) fantastic some of those early devices were, most were abysmal early tablets were often called slates and ran on wince (a cut down version of xp) the vista based ones were a lot worse (03 era) it wasn't until MSFT took a direct approach to them (thanks to the military demanding certain things) that touchscreen devices running windows started to be come useable for the majority as consumer hardware (and even then its always had the same problems of lacklustre performance due to heat dissipation issues and lack of ram or onboard storage until the surface pro range was released, and for all that they work there vastly overpriced)  

hell even in 08 the icrap was a bad choice for smart devices, offering less durability and performance than the rest whilst charging more and running a massive marketing campaign... iPhone 1/2 were dire the 3 was piss poor and it never really got better, even today the current iPhone xs max is almost as good as the lumia 550 (one of the worst spec'd mobiles nokia/msft ever made) and its not likely there going ot improve that much when they have the market all wrapped up in the hype train...

now back on topic emotes were in me3 and dai (might have only been the SP game before the final patch, been over a year since I played either of them) and there hardly a new thing in gaming anyway, I was playing games with emotes in them back in 1998 (had a different name back then) and most games have some special function (although most Bethesda games you really have to find them through the call function list or data mining) often there not fully implemented since the call command is needed for the npc interactions (like calling and waving) to each other and devs are all children who want the ability to make sandbox Christmas card gifs from their personal work (yes this is why emotes exist, becasue people like me back in the late 80's through early 90's wanted animated gifs from games characters so we coded the functions into the games we made and emailed them to other people (oh I think we called it net-message back in the early days and each 10kb msg would take about 15 minutes to send over the phone line, if you were posh you might have had a floppy drive most folks just had cassette decks and that could take a lot longer to record and send to someone although might not have taken as long to arrive, not to mention the electronic message cost you over $15 to send whilst the courier parcel was only $5....) 

yeah I got in trouble a few times, one time I made the brigade's interactive network flash with emotes each time certain types of message were sent in... just my luck the div commander was in the command centre and that cunt never had a sense of humour (didnt appreciate explody things and red cross swords appearing everywhere with eg times over the top of them, wouldn't mind but the cunt stole the scripts and used it himself and claimed his command team created it.. ahh the days of  being a geek..) 

Can. I. Flip. People. OFF?!?!

Now there's a vanity DLC I'd purchase.

Is basically the only emote I use. Apart from contextual tea-bagging.

   

I think they are what they were meant to be, at least from what I have seen. They're fun, funny, silly things to use every now and then, like maybe you're in a silly mood so you get your Javelin to do a silly dance or that one where the Interceptor is trying to perform "The Crane Technique" from Karate Kid (TM). Or maybe you just made an amazing kill and (YOU) are pumped, and you wan to convey that in-game. Use these things accordingly. Sparingly, but appropriately. And still some others may never use them, that's okay too.