[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Raph Koster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev2-bounces at lists.mud-dev.com [mailto:mud-dev2-
> bounces at lists.mud-dev.com] On Behalf Of Richard A. Bartle
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: mud-dev2 at lists.mud-dev.com
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews
and
> rants
> 
> On 09 March 2007, Vincent Archer wrote:
> >EQ did implement that. In any emote, you can follow the emote with
text.
> 	This makes it even odded that it never made it to WoW.
> 	I don't suppose EQ implemented smilies, did they? :-) or :)
equating
> to /smile?

SWG did, and quite extensively. Western and Japanese-style smilies, tied
to facial animations, automatic body postures, emote anims, etc. Not
just smilies either, certain keywords too.

-Raph