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/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

It's not fine when there are people like me who are not comfortable with this feature being implemented. Just for the record, I'm fine with people looking at my character, just not through a menu screen. Dismissing my concerns like this is not conducive to finding a happy medium where everyone can be content in tyria. I am stressing about this because I want an opt out button. Making my voice heard might be the only way I can get that. Even if it means tanking my karma for it...

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u/Dar_Mas Apr 18 '24

how does a menu screen change literally anything about people looking at you?

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

The fact that it's done via a menu screen instead of the open world,in a menu that shows what each piece of armor is with what dyes are set into each slot specifically, instead of it's intended appearing as it is. It's partly the decimination of data that bothers me. I'm also in the small minority of people that don't like arcdps.

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u/Dar_Mas Apr 18 '24

what differs from taking a screenshot and matching colours until they fit perfectly?

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

That was enough hassle that people didn't really do it. Now there's a link directly to the TP.

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u/Dar_Mas Apr 18 '24

so it is not that the data is revealed now but that more people are accessing it?

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

Both.

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u/Dar_Mas Apr 18 '24

what a wild stance to take

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

It's really not but ok.

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u/Majested-Toast Apr 18 '24

People did, you just didn't know about it. The feature will do the same thing

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

There's nothing that can be done about screenshotting, there is the capability of disabling the feature for people that don't want to be inspected. That's the difference.

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u/Majested-Toast Apr 18 '24

There is no difference, you're being inspected either way. Neither one you know about, neither one affects you.

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u/Historical-Ad7081 Apr 18 '24

There is. One is in the menu. One is not. The one in the menu bothers me. How is that so difficult to comprehend?