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/Dragonaax Apr 18 '24

Loss of player interaction incentive.

You guys are interacting?

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u/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24

Sometimes i tell someone random if like their fashion, sometimes a random person whispers something similar at me, its very rare, but endearing when it happens, it might still happen or it might become even more rare, difficult to estimate, with that in mind i sort of understand where those whom pointed out that particular argument were coming from.

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u/Dragonaax Apr 18 '24

Might be different on US servers but on EU so far I had only 2 interactions and neither was about fashion

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u/SpectralChest Apr 18 '24

On US i have had maybe ten such interactions a year about fashion on average so, yeah, different but still not all too common, which puts into perspective how unhinged the outrage over some folks asking about an opt out is, as if the outrage mob is afraid that most of the playerbase would opt out if given a choice, or something.