Why are so many against skimpier armor?

[yetgdhfgh]

Iam not i think we need more slutmogs

We aint had a really good slutmog since vanilla!

[namecraft]

I hate it when people have opinions

[Deleted]

I mean it's just sad that you want to dress up your character like that in my opinion. Makes me think of that scene in the film 'Gamer' with the disgusting obese man role-playing that skimpily-dressed girl in the alternate world game.

[Dayon]

It's funny how nebulously important 'realism' is.

Skimpy armor is unrealistic armor and wildly impractical. Just because WoW is a fantasy game doesn't mean some common ideals of practicality HAVE to go out the window. Do arrows stop working realistically because it's a fantasy setting? Do blades stop working realistically because it's a fantasy setting? Laws of gravity, the cycle of day and night? Birds flying, grass growing?

You can be critical of poor armor and weapon designs without handwaving it away with 'it's a fantasy setting'.

[Moralgy]

Everyone says it's the boys who dress their belfs in slutmog, but the boys I know who play female characters outfit them like fucking starcraft marines.

The only guildies who dress their female characters pretty are the girls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWJiI55I7M

"I don't mind spending all my gold for this transmog dress" is my life when ever I go back to wow. >.> I don't have a problem I swear.

[Deleted]

Well you're definitely the more "bothered" one overall, that's safe to say.
I never once said your nerdy slutmog bothered me. I don't give a shit. I just said it tells a lot about your personality.

You do give a shit, otherwise you wouldn't say "it tells a lot about your personality", which makes you immature.

[Chemii]

Because the fact that majority of males plays female characters, dressing up in very bad, horrible looking skimpy armour, while lying to the crowd and themselves that they play female characters because the animations look better... It makes me cringe to no end, and yes, it just looks downright bad.

I don't wear skimpy armor but I do play female characters.

The male models in this game are like body builders, a physique I can't relate to and don't think fits say a mage, warlock, rogue or anyone else outside of a Warrior.

A typical mage can't bench more than Arnold, so why when I take my robe off am I rocking a six pack and guns the size of bricks?

Female characters are leen and sleek, it has nothing to do with finding pixels attractive. They just look better in a lot of cases, for me it's mostly human and nelf.

Then again maybe I do like playing as Lara Croft rather than Nathan Drake, bad ass women are attractive.

[Gaidax]

Because the fact that majority of males plays female characters, dressing up in very bad, horrible looking skimpy armour, while lying to the crowd and themselves that they play female characters because the animations look better... It makes me cringe to no end, and yes, it just looks downright bad.

Lying to themselves? lul

I pick attractive female characters in all my games because, yes, I like pretty women. Such a strange man, I am. Bite me?

[Deleted]

It's funny how nebulously important 'realism' is.

Skimpy armor is unrealistic armor and wildly impractical. Just because WoW is a fantasy game doesn't mean some common ideals of practicality HAVE to go out the window. Do arrows stop working realistically because it's a fantasy setting? Do blades stop working realistically because it's a fantasy setting? Laws of gravity, the cycle of day and night? Birds flying, grass growing?

You can be critical of poor armor and weapon designs without handwaving it away with 'it's a fantasy setting'.

You know what else is wildly impractical armour? Pretty much every piece of armour in the whole game (as well as most games), because they are designed around the rule of cool.

This, is not practical, you would not be able to fight in this:

[Polybius]

Wow, you're seriously sticking to claiming that it isn't true? Hear me out, this is what I said:
Someone, who likes something, may have the courage to admit that they like said thing.

You're claiming that statement isn't true, are you for real right now?



Right, and people around you are part of your surroundings, how you react to their decisions is part of your maturity, thank you for helping me prove my own point.



Dude, enter the game right now, pick any non-RP server, Horde/Alliance doesn't matter, talk to people in the game and ask them if they care about role-play, ask them if they even know what role-play is. Most people who play this game have never RP'd in their life. That's why there are so few RP servers.

And even in the situations that does contain actual RP, there's a world of difference between your character wearing skimpy armour, and doing ERP in Goldshire.

Wow, you're seriously sticking to claiming that it isn't true? Hear me out, this is what I said:
Someone, who likes something, may have the courage to admit that they like said thing.

You're claiming that statement isn't true, are you for real right now?



Right, and people around you are part of your surroundings, how you react to their decisions is part of your maturity, thank you for helping me prove my own point.



Dude, enter the game right now, pick any non-RP server, Horde/Alliance doesn't matter, talk to people in the game and ask them if they care about role-play, ask them if they even know what role-play is. Most people who play this game have never RP'd in their life. That's why there are so few RP servers.

And even in the situations that does contain actual RP, there's a world of difference between your character wearing skimpy armour, and doing ERP in Goldshire.

Of course it's not true. Because this is what you said:

Anyone who's actually mature wouldn't care if someone wears a slutmog or not and might even be brave enough to admit that they like it themselves.

No one needs bravery to admit something. And maturity even less. You're insinuating that bravery and maturity is what it takes for someone to 'admit' that they like it. Well I'm here to tell you that it's not true. Ask anyone that has both traits plus a dislike for slutmogs.

In all honesty, someone mature (by your definition) wouldn't mind another person's opinions, even those opposite ('dislike slutmogs') to your views.

Right, and people around you are part of your surroundings, how you react to their decisions is part of your maturity, thank you for helping me prove my own point.

Again, how is a dislike of slutmogs 'immature'? You're contradicting your point here, by measuring others' level of maturity, without understanding what it is.

Dude, enter the game right now, pick any non-RP server, Horde/Alliance doesn't matter, talk to people in the game and ask them if they care about role-play, ask them if they even know what role-play is. Most people who play this game have never RP'd in their life. That's why there are so few RP servers.

And even in the situations that does contain actual RP, there's a world of difference between your character wearing skimpy armour, and doing ERP in Goldshire.

WoW is a MMORPG. You play a character, which you assign a role, dress up and designate a name to. This is called characterization.

If you don't like that it's called roleplaying, then you picked the wrong genre.

[Deleted]

Of course it's not true. Because this is what you said:

No one needs bravery to admit something. And maturity even less. You're insinuating that bravery and maturity is what it takes for someone to 'admit' that they like it. Well I'm here to tell you that it's not true. Ask anyone that has both traits plus a dislike for slutmogs.

In all honesty, someone mature (by your definition) wouldn't mind another person's opinions, even those opposite ('dislike slutmogs') to your views.

No one needs bravery to admit something? Are you sure about that? You're saying it isn't brave for a homosexual to admit it after years of struggle? You're saying it's not brave of someone who's had suicidal thoughts to admit that they need help? I must disagree with you on that one.

Again, how is a dislike of slutmogs 'immature'? You're contradicting your point here, by measuring others' level of maturity, without understanding what it is.

No, you're simply misunderstanding my post, again. I didn't say that disliking slutmogs is immature, I said that thinking less of people who use slutmogs is immature, because thinking less of someone for their decision as to what they want their character to wear, in a video game, is immature.

WoW is a MMORPG. You play a character, which you assign a role, dress up and designate a name to. This is called characterization.

If you don't like transmogs, or that it's called roleplaying, then you picked the wrong genre.

Wake up mate, most people pick a race and class that they think will be the most fun to play, to do the content within the game be it PvP, pet battles, dungeons, raids or world quests, they do not play the game to do actual role-play. You seem to completely miss the point that there is a difference to playing an MMORPG, and doing actual role-play within the game.

I have no problem with the game being called an MMORPG, but just because I play an MMORPG, doesn't mean that I spend time doing role-play. Role-playing in WoW, is interacting with other players and their characters, in character. You create a back-story, a personality, and act upon it within the contexts of the role-play that happens around you, primarily via the in-game chat and /emote commands. This is something that people primarily dedicate their time to do on role-playing servers, and barely happens at all on any other server.

[Najnaj]

Depends on the gender/race. Did you ever see a male nightelf in a revealing outfit? Male ne should come with tabards perma equipped to hide that poorly made ass. Same with male/human arms and the weird "boobjobbed" stick-figures that are female bloodelves.

On a related note, I never understood why, in a game with so many over sexed teen boys playing, female orcs not more popular. When it comes to sexy female bodies, nothing in wow even comes close to the female orc.

[Tekkommo]

I'm a Demon Hunter so slutmog is a must.

Illidan runs around topless.

I find some of the replies laughable, you call it childish to use a slutmog, but don't think it is childish to play games and transmog a character in fancy armour.

It's a game with cartoon graphics, stop taking it so seriously.

[Serissa]

Boris Vallejo would disagree.

If someone does something doesn't mean he does it properly.

If I draw a square then call it triangle would it make it real triangle?

[Gaidax]

WoW is a MMORPG. You play a character, which you assign a role, dress up and designate a name to. This is called characterization.

If you don't like that it's called roleplaying, then you picked the wrong genre.

Nice example of mind projection fallacy.

Newsflash - world does not think the way you do and neither Blizzard does, majority of the people playing this game don't give rat's ass about RP. That's why you even have RP servers to begin with and why there is so few of those compared to standard ones.

I play this game not because I am so immersed in Warcraft fantasy and roleplay a Warlock, but simply because it's a bloody great game I play many years and I happen to like WoW raids. The lore aspect is a bonus, but I'll tell you something - if tomorrow they announce "Rage of the Uncle Ben" expansion where the main adversary is mutated packet of Uncle Ben's rice threatening to destroy Azeroth, I would not bat an eyelash as long as it would have great raiding and gameplay.

[Elim Garak]

My favorite toys (applied in this order):
http://www.wowhead.com/item=35275/orb-of-the-sindorei
http://www.wowhead.com/item=119092/moroes-famous-polish
http://www.wowhead.com/item=133997/black-ice

THE HORROR

[Deleted]

Bohoo "realism", moral high horse and white knight crowd... get over yourselves.

Skimpy armor, or any fan service really, is great and wow could have a lot more of it!

[Elim Garak]

It's quite obvious that people who are triggered by skimpy armor do secretly love it but they are too insecure to use it themselves so when they see others in skimpy armor they get jelly and their insecurity intensifies and that, ladies and gentlemen, triggers them. They sublimate the experience into passionate argumentation on why skimpy armor should be removed, even though they secretly love it. They attack anyone who objects and they project their insecurity on them as a defense mechanism.

Be kind to them for they are suffering.

[Sansnom]

But armored bikini makes perfect sense?


Because it makes literally ZERO sense even in fantasy setting.

It is a fantasy setting. So how does it have to make a sense. I can pull a giant mammoth with two passenger from somewhere. I can carry a bag full of ores and can still kick ass.

Now saying you are wrong in objecting to armored bikini but fantasy does not have any sense. Besides, scantily clad people is not unknown in the fantasy setting. Many other mechanize of the same genre features such depiction of human.

Remember Conan The Barbarian? Or even 300? Not all the women I went to see the film with were there for the "historical narrative" of the that event.

Even today, we have variation of it with the figure hugging costume.

Finally, does it have a place in WoW is a personal decision. My GM transmog her, yes, her, main toon, a warrior tank with plate bikini. She has several sets with different colors. So far when we raid, no one has mentioned much except praise her for her effort to putting the set together and how well it look.

[The Emperor]

Bohoo "realism", moral high horse and white knight crowd... get over yourselves.

Skimpy armor, or any fan service really, is great and wow could have a lot more of it!

Bohoo "realism", moral high horse and white knight crowd... get over yourselves.

Skimpy armor, or any fan service really, is great and wow could have a lot more of it!

Bwahaha I was waiting for a perv to show up and blame normal people for having something against skimpy armor in game. Priceless, priceless. I didn't think the time would ever come when values and humility and modesty would be perceived as wrong, but you 'consumer society' never cease to amaze me. Do you see anything beyond your ego?

Once again, you can have /whatever/ the nude gimp gigolo armor you want to -- game models are client side, can be altered -- but since skimpy pervs like nothing better than to show off their idiotic slutmogs to other normal people, it is doubtful the skimpy outfit that only they can see would be something they are okay with. Because it's always about telling others "look how unique and cool I am". pervs and gays just can't go without shoving their deviations down everyone's throats.
And to have the audacity to say that because we normal people frown upon this there is something wrong with us and we need to get over ourselves?! Gimme a break freaks