I really hope we get some swimwear before the summer is completely gone.
There’s still australian summer..
It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.
As soon as I saw the underwear on my female human, and especially my asuran, I just assumed it was intended to double as swim wear. In my mind that was confirmed as soon as I saw that diving goggles strip you down to your underwear, ready to go swimming.
I seriously doubt the lack of any other styles or dyable under/swim wear is a censorship issue. As many people have pointed out if that was the case then we wouldn’t be able to strip to our underwear in the first place.
It’s obviously also not a lack of time/ability/staff to make it because they’ve brought out several other new skins and cosmetic items in the time since people first started asking for swimwear.
The only logical conclusion IMO is that for whatever reason Anet don’t want to make it. Which isn’t to say it will never happen, just that they’ve chosen not to do it for now.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
The only logical conclusion IMO is that for whatever reason Anet don’t want to make it. Which isn’t to say it will never happen, just that they’ve chosen not to do it for now.
Someone claimed they datamined swimwear info along with a bunch of other stuff that has panned out.
To be clear, I wasn’t insinuating that the older the style the better. I was saying that the 1920’s style fits much nicer into the game than more modern styles (or the styles that inspired them).
Yes the 1920’s style fits nice with the magical laser cannons as well…
Oh wait…
I’m sorry but the “immersion” argument is lost on me. GW2 is a mix of styles and technologies and that is one of the things that makes the game cool and different. The traditional fantasy or even steampunk tropes are flexed and made new here.
And also if we were going to have era-appropriate swim wear it’d be something from medieval times, maybe up to the Renaissance since that seems to be the sort of era GW2 is set in.
Which Wikipedia tells me means swimming naked or….in your underwear.
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
To be clear, I wasn’t insinuating that the older the style the better. I was saying that the 1920’s style fits much nicer into the game than more modern styles (or the styles that inspired them).
Yes the 1920’s style fits nice with the magical laser cannons as well…
Oh wait…
I’m sorry but the “immersion” argument is lost on me. GW2 is a mix of styles and technologies and that is one of the things that makes the game cool and different. The traditional fantasy or even steampunk tropes are flexed and made new here.
Embrace it.
^This.
i crack up whenever someone says something about “immersion” or “medieval” in an attempt to validate their tastes over someone else’s in regards to this game. My first day playing and i saw someone with a baseball cap doing the carlton dance in LA. Then a cat-man walked by in a pimp coat with a laser gun. This game is no where near “medieval” or or (lmao) 1920s. XD
And also if we were going to have era-appropriate swim wear it’d be something from medieval times, maybe up to the Renaissance since that seems to be the sort of era GW2 is set in.
Was going to say this is incorrect but then i remembered all the Industrialization through steam power, airships, holographic strippers, motorcycles, battle robots, and nuclear reactors that had common use throughout the medieval Renaissance and Dark Ages.
The only logical conclusion IMO is that for whatever reason Anet don’t want to make it. Which isn’t to say it will never happen, just that they’ve chosen not to do it for now.
Someone claimed they datamined swimwear info along with a bunch of other stuff that has panned out.
ArenaNet can always pull back their plans but if they do intend to go ahead I can’t think of any good reason why they’re waiting so long.
I can!
Implementing this would be competing for the same dev time as some of the stuff mentioned in Colin’s recent blog post. Those things are more important than swimwear. Also keep in mind that those are already being worked on, possible starting multiple months ago.
Implementing these can also be much more complicated/difficult if they never planned for it. Currently if you take off your armor you end up in your underwear. If you take off the swimwear the logical thing would be you end up nude but that is not an option here. Nudity would most likely get an Adult Only rating slapped on it plus some unwanted publicity. AO would also kill boxed sales.
Perhaps a great many people would run around everywhere in swimwear, were it added.
Perhaps it would be too much trouble to implement an opposite version of that “Southsun Cove” forced swimwear location—in that, unless you were in close proximity to a shoreline or body of water, you would not be allowed to equip the swimwear (outfit)…
