Please add arachnophobia mode in settings

I know alot of people who will straight up not play a game because of arachnids. Its only recently games have started adding arachnophobia modes in the graphics options. Please add this for game release so everyone can play

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xiedd13ix

TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »

No. I find this absolutely ridiculous and I said the same thing when Hogwarts Legacy added that in settings. Arachnophobia is not a disability. It is a TREATABLE anxiety disorder, and i'd suggest to seek professional help to deal with that. Just stop with the nonsense.

you seem like a nice person to have at parties.

Noaani

xiedd13ix wrote: »

TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »

No. I find this absolutely ridiculous and I said the same thing when Hogwarts Legacy added that in settings. Arachnophobia is not a disability. It is a TREATABLE anxiety disorder, and i'd suggest to seek professional help to deal with that. Just stop with the nonsense.

you seem like a nice person to have at parties.

He seems to me to be someone that encourages people to better themselves rather than to demand others make up for their failings.

I'd rather be at a party with some like this than someone that insists others compensate for their own shortcomings.

Taleof2Cities

xiedd13ix wrote: »

TheDarkSorcerer wrote: »

No. I find this absolutely ridiculous and I said the same thing when Hogwarts Legacy added that in settings. Arachnophobia is not a disability. It is a TREATABLE anxiety disorder, and i'd suggest to seek professional help to deal with that. Just stop with the nonsense.

you seem like a nice person to have at parties.

Nice or not, not every game should have settings copy/pasted from Hogwarts Legacy.

Solvryn

I would highly doubt considering there's an entire mob based off of Stevens anatidaephobia.

WHIT3ROS3

I'm generally an accommodating type but this level of bubble-wrapping is utterly absurd.

bloodprophet

The best therapy is exposure.
Sometimes the best way out is through.

Fantmx

xiedd13ix wrote: »

Literally just a graphical setting nothing more. Optional

Wouldn't there have to be a different model, different materials, different skills, different vitals and different animations? How did Hogwarts handle it?

Noaani

WHIT3ROS3 wrote: »

I'm generally an accommodating type but this level of bubble-wrapping is utterly absurd.

This is probably a more polite way of making the point I made earlier.

Being accommodating is all good. Wrapping people up in a protective cocoon is bad.

Ehrgeiz

We cant save overyone. So there are two options.

Get over it
or
gtfo

BlackBrony

xiedd13ix wrote: »

BlackBrony wrote: »

What about people with tropophobia? Or fear of water? Or large spaces?

If you read i just said i understand they can't do all phobias but just because they cant do all doesnt mean they shouldn't do some

Pouring resources into something to useless, it's a waste. I would rather they improve systems than making 1% of the player base happy because they can't see spiders. Just don't go there.

Liniker

no, this is scope creep imagine creating all the different assets, animations, and what about other phobias?

xiedd13ix

Fantmx wrote: »

xiedd13ix wrote: »

Literally just a graphical setting nothing more. Optional

Wouldn't there have to be a different model, different materials, different skills, different vitals and different animations? How did Hogwarts handle it?

No just look at the game grounded

Garrtok

I have arachnophobia and these clunky 3d spiders have really zerrooooo todo with real spiders. Don't be a snowflake

Iam scared of deep water, please do a naval-no-water mode 🙄

Chicago

Its 2023 as if anyone is scared of spiders, grow up 😄

Chicago

BlackBrony wrote: »

What about people with tropophobia? Or fear of water? Or large spaces?

Should probably remove naval content too

Kilion

xiedd13ix wrote: »

Solmyr wrote: »

I used to be afraid of spiders, but I've played so many games with them present that I eventually got desensitized to their presence. It might be different for other people, but I feel like engaging in safe and controlled exposure was much healthier in the long run than constantly indulging an irrational fear.

I think for some phobias its just to bad. I think a simple graphic change setting would be good. Its why I'm suggesting it wont change any gameplay at all or for anyone else would just change the model of the creature for example. Remove spider hair. Remove the legs or maybe a full remodel into like a slime/blob

You wouldn't be able to see the behavior of the mob accurately as Ashes requires players to SEE a lot of the moves an enemy makes, so just replacing the model with a slime is absolutely not what would suffice. It would add a ton of work to design a new mob type that is similar enough to show the behavior a player needs to see to react or this "phobia mode" would make players worse at playing as it limits the information they'd receive. And while I get that facing a phobia is a long and stressful process, you have to be aware that hyper complex games like Ashes aims to be for more than one reason cannot make adjustments for these kinds of sensibilities.

Steven has been prominently and multiple times on record stating that Ashes won't be for everyone and I am afraid that people with unaddressed phobias are another group on that list.

But maybe this can serve as a motivation to overcome the phobia through therapy or a way to treat yourself through exposure to get this under control.

Depraved

no slimes pls, i have blennophobia >:

Tyranthraxus

Needless.

There's already enough on the existing development roadmap without having to code every spider-based enemy to appear differently to individual players because they feel like spiders are icky.

Maybe just stay out of the Underrealm and caves?

Karthos

According to the studies, about 3-15% people have arachnophobia. It is the most common phobia, followed by these others.

Ophidiophobia is second with 3% suffers of actual phobia and over 50% increased anxiety upon exposure.

Around 6% have acrophobia in some form or another.

As many as 9% suffer from cynophobia.

So if we have a setting to turn off or block spiders, there's the strong case to be able to toggle off your screen any and all instances of snakes, high places and dogs.

It would be only fair, as a person with fear of dogs, apparently 1 in 10 people nearly, would be unable to play Ashes of Creation given the number of canine cosmetics and pets.

CROW3

Huh…interesting. No, but interesting.

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