The audience of the game isn’t you and your personal tastes. Some people might like to see something sexualised. Judging from all the human females running around in skimpy armour I’d say a large number of players care a great deal about that. Are they all people who should grow up because they want something from their fantasy MMO that’s different to what you want?
I don’t think the number of players running around in skimpy outfits, is a good excuse to justify objectification of women in games as a whole. MMO’s especially have a tendency for immature designs, that over-sexualize women. I personally don’t think that’s tasteful, or healthy.
There are plenty of girls who play GW2 and go for the “skimpy” outfits. I watched the GW2 stream where someone from ArenaNet was playing a human female ele and showing people how to get started in GW2. It stood out to me that she was very excited to buy a purple bag (her whole character was purple, hair, clothes, bag etc). As I watched her play, I was amazed at how I could see up the character’s skirt as she ran, it was designed to stand out (I’m not claiming that she chose that armour, obviously it’s every human female’s starter armour, I’m just pointing out that this kind of stuff exists already and it’s perfectly fine). The starter clothes are far more sexual than the robots, and unlike the robots they are actually supposed to represent humans (which the player controls if you want to view that as another way to make it wrong – males creating attractive female avatars subservient to their every key press – it’s not as sinister and some people in this thread would like us to believe).
Video games are always going to present idealised versions of people. The men will generally have trim, buff bodies and the women will be trim and curvy. I don’t really see why there is a problem with these as options, and I actually think it’s narrow minded to suggest it’s something which specifically targets females. Norn males will often go shirtless and have very masculine and muscular bodies. One of the key characters for this chapter (Braham) is even showing a nipple, and Logan is your stereotypical pretty-boy.
Guild Wars 2 doesn’t objectify women, it goes to great lengths to do the opposite (to the point where I think the story is dumbed down to accommodate this agenda). There is an entire race which was designed to portray females as masculine to the point where maternal females aren’t the norm and the main physical difference between males and females are their tails (and neither asura nor charr females use the female armour models). The human kingdom is ruled by a Queen, not a King which is standard in the fantasy genre. She’s not as formidable as Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones, but she’s certainly not portrayed as weak. I suspect her character was designed to appeal to females more so than males. In many ways, her relationship with Logan is a stereotypical gender reversal (the queen is almost portrayed as asexual while Logan is painfully written as a clingy, love-sick puppy dog – another way the story goes out of its way to promote females at the expense of male characters). Several factions in Tyria are lead by a female (Order of Whispers, Vigil, Sylvari etc) to the point where I think the females are outweighing the males in the power/numbers ratio. Destiny’s Edge is made up of three females and two males, the Living Story so far has only one male protagonist (Braham) but four female protagonists (Rox, Kasmeer, Kiel, Marjory).
If you played GW2 and think that it teaches people to think of women as objects, you haven’t paid attention to anything past the character customisation screen. Some people seem to think that if something is sexual (especially if it’s the female form) it’s somehow degrading or morally objectionable. It’s not, it’s the context which matters most, and in the context of GW2, women are standing in a pretty good place. It’s the height of irony to me that this thread is so large during a month where the story focuses around the Jubilee of a female queen. The Watchknights, while clearly emphasising the female form, are not portrayed in a sleazy way. They aren’t sex bots, they are potent fighters. As far as it being unrealistic for them to be shaped the way they are, boob armour is unrealistic, magic is unrealistic, giant cat people are unrealistic, almost every greatsword skin in the game is unrealistic, most of the asuran combat animations are unrealistic. It’s a fantasy MMO. The fact that we get to see and experience things which aren’t in the real world is part of the fun.
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