- Rubs temples. *
For some reason, I allowed myself to read ten pages of this before I decided to myself, enough is enough. Say something.
- Inhale* tl;dr version of this entire debate thats swung wildly from one idea to another like some great, glorious pendulumn on very shaky supports swinging back and forth making the entire room shake.
Ok, maybe not. But…
All I’m seeing is this. On one hand, we’ll call them the Yes-Inspectors want /inspect. To me, whose casual and has played in the hardcore OMGMEETREQSORGETOUT groups… I don’t see the point of inspect. You can gather. You can stand there, open character screen and oggle at their stuff. Sure alot of MMOs have/had this. Or they can link you stuff from afar ( EDIT HERE. Spelling). Theres absolutely NO DIFFERENCE, at least, in my eyes. Its like arguing that, " I have a car already to get me to the super market faster, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a second car just in case. " You don’t really need it. Thats my opinion.
For the Non-Inspectors. Sure. They can see your gear. Sure, it feels like an invasion of privacy, but maybe I’m just numb to it. They open a window, see what exotics, or rares, or greens your wearing. In general gameplay, I’ve very, very rarely ran across people that inspected me and go, " Scrubgearnooblolol. " or the likes. If people are running past you in Orr and the like doing that, well, community is worse off than most people are admitting. >_> Then again, f2p is f2p, you run across all kinds.
Now with that said. I’m personally against /inspect for skill builds. Absolutely. I don’t care if someone sees my gear, I’m wearing that " out in the open. " anyhow. Maybe thats an rp habit of mine. I don’t know. But my skill build…
Maybe I want what I’m using a secret and hush hush. Maybe I’m not using a cookie cutter-build and don’t want the annoyance of some groupie screaming OMGAH I DIDN’T SEE THAT ON FORUMS U ARE SPESHIUL SNOWFLAKE YOU SUCK. Maybe I don’t want to sit there and patiently explain why this skill compliments this skill, or that skill will synergize with this skill. I’d rather just NOT deal with that kind of a headache.
In my experience with just about every stat based MMO I’ve ever played, if someone is able to annoy me by trying to pick everything I do apart with the skillbuild, then its not worth my time or effort to put up with them for any length of time than whats required to be polite. Putting up with them through a dungeon is beyond my time limit for being polite.
Seeing my gear to see if I’m completely undergeared and will get one shot is fine. I don’t care either way personally.
My skillbuild is my personal buisness. If you’re so insistant on knowing everything about me, from what I had for breakfast that morning then I might be willing to tell you. I just don’t feel having everything I’ve done with my character on public display for some kitten to rant and rave about is benefecial to anybody. If you want to know someone’s skillbuild, ask. Its not hard to say x/x/x/x/x. Not a cookie cutter number to you? No problem. Say No thanks in IM.