@Bland:
Do you have no respect for how much coding work is involved in certain things, or how much lag would be created? Switching to first person view? Yeesh...

@Aotr:
I'm indifferent as a number of these really don't need animations that badly, but I also wouldn't oppose the introduction of animations for them, especially for /cry.

There is a threshold where something is simply not worth doing. Why should the developers make a massive effort coding and implementing a tiny change that few people will notice or appreciate, especially if it'll actually irritate more players by creating lag or eat up developer time that could be used on more important changes?
It's a lofty presumption to say that something will "increase tremendously" based on absolutely no data or shared opinion.

You can't assume that something will have a "tremendous impact" unless argued against. In fact, the opposite holds true; assume it'll have no impact until you've seen opinions on the matter. Especially for such small things as animations; people won't be blown away by having more animations and emotes in game; it's a novelty and something people find fun, but not something that changes much one way or the other.
I can say this with relative confidence because I've played many MMOs and seen reactions to various types of updates. Emote based updates are always very small and often received as such by the community.

As for coding; I can't say what their threshold is, as that's their decision, but I was pointing out that thresholds do exist to counter your seeming indifference to the amount of work required for the relatively low amount of impact it would be likely to have.
For instance; the entire game is done in a BEV perspective at a set angle, with only three instances in the entire game that I can think of where the camera angle changes, none of which becoming first-person, and you're suggestion making a first-person view animation that would come up often. But the problem is that...there's no real reason to do so; there's nothing wrong with the current setup, so why go with an incredibly more complex version "just for the sake of it"?

And having an entire coding/art team working on something that takes a lot of time for little benefit is generally not what the community wants. Typically, people want the dev team working on things that are for larger updates or more urgent to gameplay (stun bug being an example).

SK is a typical MMO. The only thing that makes it "not typical" is the genre. In every sense that's relevant to this discussion, SK is exactly like every other MMO, therefore I can include it in my MMO experience and make judgements based on them and this together. It has a playerbase that wants the same things, it runs heavily on fashions and accessories, it has promos for the same things and the community is made up of the exact same people that make up the communities of other MMOs.

Never have I seen or heard of an update in an MMO about animations and emotes that blew everyone's mind and had everyone going "Way to go Devs; I'm so glad you spent months totally rewriting the games camera coding for first-person view we never use. Who needs you to be working on things like GHs when we got 'dis?"

whether if this change will have a great or low impact is still undecided until that test is performed.

Logic, foresight, common sense and experience can be great indicators. Sure, the game could absolutely erupt in fanaticism about everyone loving the new /love emote, but the odds are that people will go "Cool" then move on and continue wondering when all the important changes are going to happen.

Can only be seen from one side

Look into Spiral Spy, and pick a box.

'nuff said.

/headesk

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"My problem with these calculations is that you are the only player who has performed these calculations."

...Ok seriously, my point on sounding like you know a lot stands.

What's going on here is what is called logic, not same fancy calculations. If OOO suddenly decided to revamp the entire game style so that we kill all of the monsters by dancing, the very very large majority of the playerbase will 1) Rampage the forums demanding what the Firestorm OOO was thinking 2) Ragequit.

"back to my point, until the test have been performed, you cannot determine the exact results."

/headdesk Nobody's saying 'exact' Einstein, it's called the general community response.

So you would rather OOO went ahead with this so THEN people complain about how OOO was wasting their time with such trivial things so THEN we can HONESTLY say that the Playerbase will react badly?

Well, a bit late to the party we shall be then.

Players raged over the SHADOW LAIR release, which is a hellofalot more 'useful' in their eyes than a few small animation changes. Dark is right when he said the majority of people would more glance it over once than be all esctatic about how cool the new animations are; When OOO made the auto-emote from smileys, the only response I heard was 'That's cool OOO, but can we have the old thing back? I don't like this.'

but isn't animations part of the game. when ever you sit in front of a gate just waiting for it to switch dont you get bored and play with the animations like the emotes. animation create a subsection of the game. wether you dont like it or not doesn;t prove the fac that many other players might like it as something to do while talking to a friend in the guild, or to just hang out. so i am not talking about testing one a one player base. OOO can include this in their list of things to do and work on it as a side programing so it can go as low as possible and they can just focus on the main content program. they can release 3 years from now that they are testing it on their test server on a large group base players and decide from the test wether to release it or not. i dont see the problem here.

@Bland:
I'd just like to point out that for all you're saying "you can't prove that until players see it", everything you're saying is based on the assumption that players like it and use it.

when ever you sit in front of a gate just waiting for it to switch dont you get bored and play with the animations like the emotes

No, I don't. I've never seen anyone who does, as a matter of fact. Nor have I heard anyone express a desire to nor the wish that they could do more so or even that they know anyone who does. From your very own argument: until it's been shown to be "worth it", we can't know that it will be. And currently, it doesn't appear that a large portion of the playerbase (to the point where everyone's heard of it at some point, such as the desire for GHs) has an urge for it, therefore implying that it'll be received with a largely "whatever" reaction.

they can release 3 years from now

However, that I can't argue nor disagree with. As long as it takes no time away from more important features and isn't released in place of something more urgent, I see no problem with it being an update. In fact, my very first post on this thread I did say that I don't oppose such an update, and that applies to most of your suggestions to, albeit on scale less grand than you suggested, and definitely sans camera changes.

Hey, if they do take a survey or throw it on test servers and a large interest is shown in favour of it, I won't disagree/object at all. I just feel that it's something that'll have very little response from the players, positive or negative, and as such won't merit much, if any, time or resources from the devs.

THERE'S NO /HUG EMOTE ANIMATION, HOW COULD THEY NOT HAVE A /HUG EMOTE ANIMATION (goes berserk). AND THERE'S NO /KISS EMOTE ANIMATION, HOW CAN THEY NOT HAVE A /KISS EMOTE ANIMATION?!?!?!?!
Ok, enough of that XD I just want those emote animations in game XD

Sure, the player base for SK seems to be impatient and mostly made of F2P 12 year olds who only want updates that they can play, or those rich kids next door that can buy 40,000 CE on a weekly basis (hyperboleisgo), but hear me out. I think an animations update and other simple things that create immersion would greatly benefit this game. More story, more animation, just put the player in their knight's shoes(?) as much as possible. When you create games that immerse the player to the umpteenth degree, these things tend to attract an older and more mature player base (ones with jobs and money mind you.) How do I know this? I'm looking at Mabinogi as a model for this, as it has tons of "seemingly useless things that are purely cosmetic", but people pour hundreds of dollars into that game, and they say some of their best memories with that game were when people sat around campfires and just enjoyed themselves. If you put similar things (Such as animations for all the emotes, little things like a high five for working together in the clockworks, etc.), this would encourage people to be more social, and when you become more social your player base's quality generally increases.