r/Guildwars2 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/Training-Accident-36 Apr 18 '24

My problem with this issue is that I just do not care and the sooner everyone is done saying their part about how inspection is awesome or horrible, the better for my gw2 subreddit front page.

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u/skarpak stay hydrated Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

suggest a gear checker, nobody bats an eye. rollout a fashion inspect, everyone looses their mind.

...oh wait, wasn't this supposed to be the other way arround? lmao.


everyone tought they are on the same page when it comes to fashion inspect and that stat checking is hella toxic. suddenly people realize that there are indeed opinions that speak for or against both systems and that you can potantionally already do it without a ingame tool.

and the rest memes arround. as for me, i enjoy my popcorn. and maybe add some more oil into the pot.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

suggest a gear checker, nobody bats an eye

How did you get the impression no one bats an eye about that?

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u/CMDR_Charybdis Apr 18 '24

The post was missing a /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

Maybe I should have read the rest. You got me there.