Customization is coming to Rivals

Emotes:

When I suggested to implement emotes, I thought about small images or small bits of text that goes off with a short sound effect when you activate it. The planned emotes with the animated videos is a bit too much. They are also very distracting. Emotes should be kept small and simple, and not the long animations presented in the video. A voiceline with a single animated frame that shows up for like 3-5 seconds would have already been completely enough.

Explojis:

I would just prefer to activate my own emote whenever I want to, but this method seems ok. Its just... are that all the images? I don't like most of them...

Skins:

Seem rather basic. If the devs don't want to change the appearance to something unrelated to the C&C tiberium universe and don't add skins which change the appearance to something exotic because of that, I can understand that. In that case simple recolorings are basically the only option to go (meh...). In that case, I hope at least some special effects to units firing or their animations are added. If not, a recolored unit isn't that exciting.

Also, why is there an Exploji with an unicorn and a rainbow in the background? Is it there so you can call your opponent [the following text has been altered to not contain any bad words :P] the g-word? I honestly don't see any other purpose for it XD

@EA_dance210 just one simple question: Can I deactivate this BS? 

You can mute the Commander emotes, if you would like

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@EA_dance210 wrote:

You can mute the Commander emotes, if you would like

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And those "Exlplojis"? Just to make it clear, I can live with the color skin, but all of the other things should stay where they are! I don't want to see this on my Display. That's whether nice or some kind of creative modification.

We're talking about a battlefield RTS and not my little Pony horse race. 

First of all stop making everything payable make the skin,emote,and everything else free skin shouldn't even be consider to be wasted on money you should earn it like do challenges for that unit like black ops 2 and 3 you have to do specific requirements just to unlock a skin

They have to make money somehow. They aren't going to make a free game for you.

With that said, this unicorn nonsense is ridiculous. Let's not turn this into a kid's game like Fortnite.

This is a terrible idea even if you can disable them. What do emotes add other than trolling and distraction? On top of that, the current implementation obscures the base buildings and sound effects, both of which are important information in a game.

I know someone is going to say "But you can disable them!", but it's STILL a bad idea because the default option is to have them enabled. There are plenty of studies that show that hardly anyone changes the default options in anything, even for important things like organ donation.

All you've done is make the new player experience worse and made the game less "pure" as a competitive game. Please, at least make the emotes disabled by default or scrap them entirely. They contribute nothing and actually make the game worse.

The more that I think about it, the more stupid this sounds. I can see it now. The CEO is sitting at the head of the table. He says, "How can we increase revenue?"

Some joker employee totally trolling the CEO says, "How about some Emotes boss! We can add ice cream cones and unicorns!"

Everyone agrees and says, "Yes boss! That would totally work. It works with Fortnite! Look at their figures!" Fortnite is for kids. We are mostly adults and teenagers here. We don't care about any skins or emojis. 

Seriously EA, you want to generate money? Make everything about a dollar or a Euro or a Yen. You want a certain card, pay a dollar for it in a clone vat purchase. You want to go down a league because you are getting creamed in the league you are in, charge a dollar for it. You want to level up your units quicker? Charge a dollar for each promotion. Make  transactions cheap and people will pay. You want just NOD cards in your next two crates because you don't play GDI, charge a dollar to guarantee that you only get NOD cards. 

Nobody wants to pay 20 bucks for a super epic crate that'll give them cards that don't need. Nobody wants to pay for a vault that has cards that they don't need. Nobody wants to pay for a damned unicorn or Ice cream cone to talk smack to an opponent. 

What the hell do those emojis mean anyway?

A simple thumbs up is all that's necessary to communicate what you want to communicate after a match. Not a damned unicorn. What is this? This is one of the best games ever and you and your team are going to ruin it to the ground.

@Marine_CorporaI I would totally agree if there isn't one massive mistake or underestimate from you.

This nobody is a lot of Players and a good % pays like hell. Best example was earlier today. I played vs one opponent of Master III, who played this game since 3 month (with avg. 150 Matches each side) but has his whole Deck full of 13+ Units.

If he didn't have any kind of hack or exploit, he must payed have paid more than 6k € for this Deck. Calculated on actually store prices on the Deck he'd build. And that's where things getting really strange!

I'm a just for fun Poker Player off- and online. I'd the honor to talk to one of a department leader from the biggest room out there and we came to the hottest topic for them eligible Gaming and licenses. What those rooms have to do and especially to pay to get those licenses - even for Playmoney gambler is ridiculous, especially if you compared to Brands like EA which didn't do anything else but hide it under Lootboxen, special offer, crates, whatever and have no consequences to fear.

This guy has (imo) a serious problem and instead of having active prevention EA just cash. Here's where I hope Belgium will move on and can win. As soon as EAs (f2p)-games are classified as gambling, this will end instantly.