Footloose in WAR
by Shawn Schuster 
Mar 27th 2008 at 10:00AM
Filed under: Fantasy, Culture, New titles, Warhammer Online
When you and your family move from big-city Chicago to a small town out west, you're in for a real case of culture shock. You try hard to fit in, but you can't quite believe you're living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is a glimmer of hope, however: a troubled but lovely blonde with an exceedingly strict father, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. You and your classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner. Only YOU have the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople!Sound familiar? If you're a child of the 80's you might recognize this as the plot for the rebellious teen drama Footloose, but recently Warhammer Online announced that it will not include a /dance emote in their game. Is this the decision of EA Mythic, Games Workshop or an overly restrictive minister who oddly resembles John Lithgow? More importantly, how drastically will this affect the economy if players can't /dance for gold in town?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pei Wong Tang said on 10:27AM 3-27-2008
umm how are you going to have l33t speaking orcs, tons of current real time issue jokes but be ABOVE a freaking /dance?
lol....indeed....lol
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Hot$auce_Magik said on 10:34AM 3-27-2008
I mean sure the /dance has been in pretty much every mmo since muds, but is this really news worthy?
Something tells me the WAR's ingame market will not crash due to the absence of males masquerading as scantily clad orcs and /dancing for spare change.
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fanguad said on 10:46AM 3-27-2008
FFXI didn't get /dance until recently, and we've survived just fine this whole time. I'm sure the WAR players will find some way to cope.
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Vexor said on 11:34AM 3-27-2008
Who needs dancing when there is WAR to be had!
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Crovan said on 8:08PM 3-27-2008
I am against the /dance emote i most games that are not WoW.
If EVE brings it in with ambulation, I am going to be sad panda.
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Wildhammer said on 4:06PM 3-27-2008
Um, I might add that this isn't recent. It's been know for a very, very long time now that there would be no dancing in WAR.
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Jack N said on 4:47PM 3-27-2008
Well, what am I going to do after I kill someone in game now? What next no more /cheer?!
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