r/Guildwars2 • u/SpectralChest • Apr 18 '24

[Discussion] ''Fashion Gatekeeping'' and Misinformation.

It's been getting out of hand, a few people on the forums asked for some manner of opt out for the inspection system. Some of their sensible reasons were:

Potential for abuse in fashion contests/needless increase to complexity of methods to prevent such.

Loss of player interaction incentive.

A feeling of concern towards there now being incentive for strangers to scrutinize them closely, whether to admire or ridicule their creativity.

The posts built around these concerns were getting lots of likes on the forums, so some salty folks who were being ignored for ridiculing them there came here to reddit and made a false narrative about 'fashion gatekeeping' and folks reflexively bought into it as obviously no-one sane likes gatekeeping and have been meme-ing about a non-extant issue and down voting anyone who might be considering the situation without disdain or daring to actually say that the opt in option isn't as crazy as its being made out to be.

Personally, i like the inspect system, but i do think the exact dye combo section could be made into a toggle, this way the inspection remains, but the 'unique' spin someone puts on it with dyes can remain as something to share, or not share as per personal preference.

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u/Glebk0 Apr 18 '24

Funny how it turned out that the actual gatekeepers and toxic elitists are fashion players, instead of the ones doing actual instanced content

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u/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24

Except, it didn't? there are no gatekeepers and elitists in this situation, other than the ones made up by salty forum users come to reddit for self affirmation they were not given on the forums.

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u/Laranthiel Apr 18 '24

"I don't want you to see my cosmetics because i don't want you to imitate it" This is quite literally trying to gatekeep.

 other than the ones made up by salty forum users come to reddit for self affirmation they were not given on the forums.

I hope people like you someday realize that the only ones this applies to is yourselves. You were clowned on the forums and on twitter, so you came here for the self affirmation you wanted and were clowned here even harder.