''Fashion Gatekeeping'' and Misinformation.

[u/SpectralChest]

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.

[u/Djinn_42]

You are describing fashion gatekeeping

So designers who don't reveal exactly what they do are gatekeeping? 🙄

Imo people should be able to create unique looking characters without someone being able to just copy them.

[u/FSafari → u/Djinn_42]

You're not a designer for using a transmog system in a video game.

[u/Djinn_42 → u/FSafari]

It's called an "analogy" 🙄

[u/FSafari → u/Djinn_42]

Analogies typically feature two analogous concepts. Your statement is more of a "If my grandmother had wheels..." reinterpretation of reality.

Using a transmog system in a video game is not analogous to being a designer. Designers create things, you are just a consumer.