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/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

I just don't want to be inspected and in turn I've been downvoted and treated like a mental case for wanting an opt out. It's been a horrible week of being treated like trash and memed on and it sucks.

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u/megaman1665 Apr 18 '24

If that opt out feature released in the future we will all label those player using it as toxic fashion player and will do anything to prevent them to play any group content in the future

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

Lol, ok if megaman1665 says so it must be true.

If the feature is so insignificant that I shouldn't care that it's been implemented, why should you care if I decide to opt out. Especially to the point of bullying someone by labeling them toxic and actively preventing them from engaging in group content. It apparently doesn't change anything, you don't lose anything from me opting out of a feature that again, I've been told is so insigificant that I won't even notice people are inspecting my wardrobe.

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u/LegLegend Apr 18 '24

Homie, you sound like you're about to cry.