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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Mag7spy

I get you are trying to play devils advocate but you don't need to throw shade at me you choose this for yourself. Fully up to you to show why they need it and explain with your information to back it up.

As other people have said AoC is an ambitious game with a lot of systems being made and created to try to already cater to a lot of peoples to get them interested into the game. It isn't realistic to try to get them to cater to every wish and wimp of every persons concern over every system, look, etc. They have their prios and i don't realistically see a reason business wise this needs to be backed as more important as the other things they are trying to do to cater to players.

Where is this energy when it comes to other games, why not complain about the spider like creatures in Anthem or the many other games. Suddenly for AoC it is expected for them to cater to everything fear now over making the game and getting the systems for a wide type of players?

This would be so low on the totem pole it be silly, maybe after release it be something to look at if it is that big a deal based on the amount o content they have related to spiders.

Noaani

Azherae wrote: »

I'm fine with the 'no, deal with your own problems don't push them on someone else' narrative when there's a proper path to that.

Every phobia can be overcome.

The correct way to deal with a phobia is to overcome it, not to skirt around it.

I overcame a fairly severe case of Acrophobia (fear of heights) when I was young. I couldn't even look out of a third story window. The notion of getting on a swing when I was a kid just wasnt ever going to happen. It was really, really bad. After overcoming it, I picked up abseiling as a hobby and even became an instructor in it for a while.

Asking for a way to avoid a phobia isnt dealing with said phobia, it is literally going out of your way to NOT deal with it.

JamesSunderland

Well, that's quite an unreasonable thread, but it's good to see that the majority of the comments were logical as expected even with all their differences in other topics, i'm proud of this community, even with certain somewhat unexpected illogical comments in favor of the thread.

Voidwalkers

Azherae wrote: »

this is really 'people thinking this is hard when it isn't' and/or using that as an excuse to target the supposed 'weaknesses' of others. Not that a primarily PvP-loving community has that tendency or anything, just coincidence.

I agree that this forum community is far from being the nicest. But implying this community is just outright mean or likes bullying the weak is also not helping.

There're 2 fundamental issues underlying the argument in this thread:

1. A good chunk of people (myself included) in this thread currently sees arachnophobia as a state-of-mind -> a form of "snowflake" -> not a sympathizable disability that merits special treatment.

2. This forum community is very harsh against those whom are seen as snowflakes and/or entitled -- given that this forum has seen a long history of folks demanding changes (sometimes in a fundamental way) or special treatments just to suit their own playstyle or circumstances, a few that I remember include:
- protection from pvp,
- removal of cosmetic cash shop,
- discounted fees for players in lower income regions without restricting their access to "regular fees" (i.e. NA & EU) servers,
- npcs use politically correct pronouns
And these demands were often made by self-righteous individuals, often in manners that can only be described as entitled, and often without regard to the potential broader impact & costs implied by their proposed changes. Over time this has likely bred a good amount of comtempt and bitterness in this community.

If you're really for arachnophobia mode, I'd suggest you address issue 1 and inform/enlighten the community about arachnophobia -- what is so special about it, why it is not a kind of snowflake, why it should be considered separately from other phobias (since you've been labellng comparisons with other phobias "slippery slope"), why should people sympathize with those who have it, and most importantly why it and it alone merits special treatment. (And yes I saw that you've brought up several points in your posts).

Condemning the community for issue 2 (by calling ppl ignorant and simply dismissing their concerns) however is only going to breed further contempt and bitterness. May be you can wear the ppl out on this thread if you're perseverant enough, but it's not gonna get any better when the dev discussion comes.

You kept saying ppl here don't understand arachnophobia, that may be true, but I hope you can also understand where this negativity stems from.

Azherae

Yeah I should probably have 'clarified my stance' more or something.

My group has been explicitly ignoring this thread because it's generally not worth anyone's time to argue with the 'bootstrapped personal responsibility' approach to mental health. The sort of person who thinks like that has a deeper personal 'reason' for their stance in most cases and all you end up doing is getting them to make exceptions.

I only said anything at all because we got to the point of 'Vaknar informing the OP that Intrepid is going to have a Discussion on it' and then people bothering to respond to Vaknar with their 'no, you can't choose to help these people, slippery slope!' and 'you can't do this, it isn't really help' and whatnot.

Which I saw as 'people literally wanting to tell a game company not to implement Arachnophobia mode because of their personal life philosophy being triggered'.

And on that premise specifically I stand by what I said and will gladly breed any contempt and bitterness toward me that I can manage, since that's the way I've learned works on those types of people.

The sort of person who has enough empathy to be convinced isn't often the type of person who 'stays mad at me for calling it out'. Just going from experience. I've learned to add things like 'seriously, you guys are the worst' because it's a good distraction for all the people who just want to be mad, who then don't really address the point or do stuff like Mag7 does.

Even this post isn't for anyone here except maybe you @Voidwalkers. As you will, so shall you be, and all that.

Noaani

Azherae wrote: »

I only said anything at all because we got to the point of 'Vaknar informing the OP that Intrepid is going to have a Discussion on it' and then people bothering to respond to Vaknar with their 'no, you can't choose to help these people, slippery slope!' and 'you can't do this, it isn't really help' and whatnot.

On this point, I agree.

If Intrepid look at it and decide it is worth it to add in something like this for some phobias and not others, that's their prerogative, gokd luck explaining to people with other phobias why theirs isnt worth it though.

My issue was with you suggesting that people asking for this mode was them "dealing with" arachnophobia. It quite literally isnt that. Dealing with a phobia is working to make it no longer a phobia.

Veeshan

Solution: just give then another pair of legs

arachnids have 8 legs so 10 legs means there no longer arachnids therefor defeats arachnophobia because they are no longer arachnids ;P

its an RPG u can just roll play somone in game that has arachnophobia and leg it every time you see one screaming and watch other players be like wtf well thats a thing

You can just advoid area's with spiders too there not gonna be every square inch of the map

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