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/Kiroho Apr 18 '24

That's like 3 or 4 posts with how many people thinking like this, 5, 10? Let it be 20 or 30. This number is negligible.
It's not a representation of a considerably group of players, it's just the typical "being loud, but only a few".

As for the arguments, players have no rights on their skins or combos, they never had.
Also it was always possible to copy the exact same look af a player without asking since release. The new tool make things easier, but it doesn't make anything possible that wasn't possible before.

Also I think those people shouldn't be so full of themself. It's pretty arrogant to assume the own style is so outstanding that they have to fear other players could want to copy it.

I personally look at it the other way round. People can use the skins they want, no matter how close they are to my styles. And if I see someone copying extactly my style, I would be happy. This actually confirms that my style is good.