Just /dance the night away
by Alexis Kassan 
Dec 7th 2008 at 3:00PM
Filed under: Culture
About how long are you in a new game before you decide to check out the emotes? These gestures have become an integral part of the personalities we ascribe to our characters - and perhaps none more than the /dance emote. Ravious over on KillTenRats recently explored dancing in MMOs since newer games without the dance animations have had to spell out why they opted to step off of the dance floor. Many games have more than one animation for dancing. In fact, RuneScape has moves that can only be accessed by paid members and Lord of the Rings Online has dances that can only be gained after completing festival quests.
It remains to be seen if dancing is what truly brings a sense of community to the city squares as Ravious seems to allude. But one thing's for sure - anything's better than sitting around watching the toy train set that never ends!
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Neurotic said on 3:58PM 12-07-2008
allude (refer to indirectly), elude (give the slip to).
But yeah, /dance. As with most of the frivolous-but-fun 'push for lol' stuff that WoW excels at, LoTRO has taken it and integrated it into the life of the game. Uhh, by which I mean, learning new moves while drunk at a party is a pretty normal way of learning new moves in real life, and LoTRO is more like real life than... uh, I wish I could make my point as well as I can explain word usage. *sigh* :D
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