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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Voidwalkers

Wouldn't mind it, but only as an April-1st-only feature

At this point this seems like a diversion of effort & resource that could be better spent elsewhere (e.g. getting Ashes shipped properly in the first place), and this also brings up the where-do-you-draw-the-line problem that could potentially divert even more effort & resource to properly address ......

WHIT3ROS3

This is a request Intrepid put in more spiders.

Vaknar

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us

While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

unknownsystemerror

Vaknar wrote: »

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

Good, then while you are at it, add every other phobia, add a toggle for mouthbreathers, and make sure to add one for the poors who don't want to see others cosmetics and have been trying to get various options turned off in game for years now. I think we should start with pandas first. We know Steven has had some trouble with them in the past and to this day. If we are just giving out stuff and not just placating the masses that is.

daveywavey

I have a phobia of corgis and giant stuffed teddybears. Please remove That Fricking Corgi and Stuffertons from the game.

kthxbai

Hinotori

Voidwalkers

Vaknar wrote: »

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

I'd argue accessibility and whateverphobia-mode are two different things though.

If I ever become hearing-impaired, I'd appreciate some form of audio visualizer that let me notice that cyclops in the woods, so I don't aggro him by accident, die miserably, and drop a bunch of mats I've just spent so much time gathering;
If I ever lost an arm or something I'd be grateful if Ashes has accessibility aid that lets me control my character to a reasonable degree with one hand.

But phobias...

It comes down to whether ppl should see phobias as an unfortunate incurable sympathizable disability (i.e. merits special treatment), or just a curable state-of-mind that can be overcome with willpower at its minimum, or professional help in the most severe cases. (i.e. does NOT merit special treatment since the person in question should be able to, and therefore is also RESPONSIBLE OF dealing with it by themselves, with or without help)

And this also starts the where-do-you-draw-the-line debate. If there's an arachnophobia mode, then what about other phobias?
What about trypophobia? That's surely common enough, should there be a trypophobia mode that prevents anything in game from forming clusters of holes / tiny objects? (Although any sane designers would avoid unnecesary use of such designs anyway ...)
What about phasmophobia? Surely there're plenty of folks who're scared of ghosts? Should there also be a phasmophobia mode that removes all the undeads, or at least make them look cute?
What about severe socialphobia? Should there be a socialphobia mode that lets a player solo all group contents, master all professions (gather & process & craft), enjoy an mmorpg without ever having to interact with others?

Ok the last case was slippery slope but ... that's also the point. Where to draw the merits-special-treatment line?

Noaani

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Vaknar wrote: »

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

I'd argue accessibility and whateverphobia-mode are two different things though.

If I ever become hearing-impaired, I'd appreciate some form of audio visualizer that let me notice that cyclops in the woods, so I don't aggro him by accident, die miserably, and drop a bunch of mats I've just spent so much time gathering;
If I ever lost an arm or something I'd be grateful if Ashes has accessibility aid that lets me control my character to a reasonable degree with one hand.

But phobias...

It comes down to whether ppl should see phobias as an unfortunate incurable sympathizable disability (i.e. merits special treatment), or just a curable state-of-mind that can be overcome with willpower at its minimum, or professional help in the most severe cases. (i.e. does NOT merit special treatment since the person in question should be able to, and therefore is also RESPONSIBLE OF dealing with it by themselves, with or without help)

And this also starts the where-do-you-draw-the-line debate. If there's an arachnophobia mode, then what about other phobias?
What about trypophobia? That's surely common enough, should there be a trypophobia mode that prevents anything in game from forming clusters of holes / tiny objects? (Although any sane designers would avoid unnecesary use of such designs anyway ...)
What about phasmophobia? Surely there're plenty of folks who're scared of ghosts? Should there also be a phasmophobia mode that removes all the undeads, or at least make them look cute?
What about severe socialphobia? Should there be a socialphobia mode that lets a player solo all group contents, master all professions (gather & process & craft), enjoy an mmorpg without ever having to interact with others?

Ok the last case was slippery slope but ... that's also the point. Where to draw the merits-special-treatment line?

As a well written, somewhat succinct explanation of what it would seem most of us here feel, this gets what is only my second or third ever "like" on these forums.

daveywavey

Noaani wrote: »

As a well written, somewhat succinct explanation of what it would seem most of us here feel, this gets what is only my second or third ever "like" on these forums.

Pretty sure the others were on my posts somewhere. Yep, I definitely remember both of them. You're welcome.

Liniker

Vaknar wrote: »

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

I have scopecreepphobia

BaSkA_9x2

I also hope they add equinophobia mode in settings: I'm extremely scared of horses in real life, therefore I won't be able to play a computer game if there are horses running around on my screen.

Noaani

IMO the real issue would start if Intrepid attempted to provide a setting for people with either agrostophobia or dendrophobia.

Saltycarrots

I have Achondroplasiaphobia. I want Intrepid to see the problems I will have in this game... seriously there are even different kind of dwarves in this game. I just want the game to be made for ME. please remove all short people in game.

/s

cater do phobias? GTFO just play another game, why change this into something else. Get real.

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

Vaknar wrote: »

I had not heard of this setting until recently!

We're always looking at what makes sense and what is possible regarding accessibility settings! Accessibility options are important to us While we may not currently have plans to add this setting, we're always excited to see accessibility requests for the game, so we appreciate threads such as this

We'll also be doing a Dev Discussion on the topic sometime in the future ^_^

Thanks for hearing me out only genuine response on the topic I've seen

Liniker

xiedd13ix wrote: »

Thanks for hearing me out only genuine response on the topic I've seen

that's because you are asking for a game that already has an extremely large scope, that was initially supposed to release before 2020 and it's 3 years late to start adding extra settings for a minority of people, and those settings take even more development time and money to make

Austrinaut

Please do it, I literally have to look away while fighting spiders in almost every game, really ruins a lot of areas for me. I'll leave dungeons in Skyrim if there are spiders.

I don't get why there are so many people saying "no dont make the game better for people that aren't me!". This is a simple problem to fix, doesn't affect you, so why are you guys acting like doing this is gonna ruin your life?

Mag7spy

Austrinaut wrote: »

Please do it, I literally have to look away while fighting spiders in almost every game, really ruins a lot of areas for me. I'll leave dungeons in Skyrim if there are spiders.

I don't get why there are so many people saying "no dont make the game better for people that aren't me!". This is a simple problem to fix, doesn't affect you, so why are you guys acting like doing this is gonna ruin your life?

You are acting like digital spiders are going to ruin your life.

Chocometeor

Because not every snowflake can have their own Graphic Setting.
Yes that was really rude to say but there are MANY phobias why do you think your Arachnophobia has more importance than others ?

As i said if i really had Ophidiophobie (Fear of Snakes). They will HAVE TO make a Graphic Settings for every single Phobia out there.

Ludullu

I, for one, have a Mobophobia. I fear any and all kinds of digital mobs. So I'd really prefer if all mobs were just amorphous blobs that have no distinct animations or attack patterns or cool visuals on their attacks. I'm sure it'd be super easy for Intrepid to just have big greyscale round balls flying around instead of all that tedious dev time spent on 3d modeling and animations and designs and whatever else.

If anything, my phobia would make the game come out way faster!

Azherae

Ah this community is always so fun...

I'll support this because of the changed times and choices made by AoC as a generality.

Other games offered pathways. Whether it be 'play on PC and get the visuals of the mob modded yourself', 'change the way you interact with the mobs specifically', or whatever.

Since AoC doesn't intend to allow any addons and will probably use various methods to ensure that the game client's visuals are not easily modified, and is a game with a 'general mob population density' approaching 'sane' for most things and therefore would make it difficult to impossible to avoid spider mobs like in other games that design with certain player types in mind, they will have closed all the doors and I therefore consider it reasonable to request reopening of said doors with regards to the specific mobs that will have meaningful density.

Seriously, you guys are the worst...

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