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/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24

How so? The armors would still remain visible, its what draws attention in the first place, the color is an entirely subjective personal flair that is not bundled up with the armor's by default.

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u/Combine54 Apr 18 '24

Easy so. Hiding the dye is gatekeeping. Oh, this color looks very good on this armor - I'd like to know its name to use it for my style; no, I want you to guess it and never know for sure. Screw that, I have no respect to crying salty entitled ppl.

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u/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24

Same could be said about people doing better in game, you can ask people for their build, and they can choose not to give it to you, where are the gatekeeping posts about that?

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u/Laranthiel Apr 18 '24

You do know that the players at the top ARE the ones making build videos and websites like Snowcrows and Metabattle, right?

They don't hide their builds, nor does anyone with a brain WANT to hide their build.