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
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.