Guild Wars 2

I wish there was a way to hide other people’s backpack skins from my view. The over sized wings make it impossible to see in tight clusters of players.

Meh, not too bugged by it. But I’ll support it if it mutes those balthazar-be-kittened o’tron backpacks.
But maybe have something like the miniatures, who gets hidden when a map peaks on crowding. When its not extremely crowded, people wanna show off their backpacks. Especially the legendary’s a hard earned glory

It might be possible but they might have to disable seeing weapons also. A dev commented on design and apparently backpacks and weapons are in the same grouping. So maybe they can’t easily disable all weapons and backpacks, or they might be unwilling to hide all of that.

Tidgepot.3285:

(Snip)The engine sees armor as what is called a composite, it sees things attached to your characters like weapons and backpieces as items, and it sees gliders as a sort of middleground item/effect. (Snip)

(You can click on the dev name for the full quote and the thread. He also has a “red post” further down with more information).

you know you can turn down the player graphics, so that they have the same generic model
its not ideal, but better than nothing