I see you are wholly incapable of discussing without ad hominem attacks, strawman arguments, and attempts at gaslighting.
You continue to misconstrue my argument to try and make me look like an awful person. You are perfectly showcasing the concept of “weaponized empathy”.
I will swing your same “claim” back at you. You refuse to acknowledge that there may have been better places that this developer could have put their time and energy in that would have made more players happy, appreciative, and had more uses.
Here, go ask the lone dev who worked on it how many features we lost because of this toggle. His DM’s are open. Ask away! KNIFE on X: “I did the design work for arachnophobia mode (lovingly nicknamed ‘crab mode’)! It was a delight working on something so fun and so important If you have any feedback about it, my DMs are open” https://twitter.com/prettyokaydev/status/1780654420038160621
If you want there to be a similar feature for sharks, ask for it? I haven’t personally seen people ask for something for sharks before, so I haven’t seen anyone deriding them for it.
They got enough feedback and suggestions from people afraid of spiders that they decided to do a nice thing for them. If you want them to do a nice thing for you, submit your feedback and if enough people agree they may do it.
Because enabling people and trying to bubble wrap the world doesn’t actually help them. It creates a victim mindset instead of teaching them to overcome their problems.
Additionally it opens the door for people to expect their every whim to be catered to. People overuse the “slippery slope” argument, but this actually is one. What’s next? No snakes, no water, no heights, no bugs of any kind, no tall people, no short people, no non-humans, no brandished weapons- we could go on forever.
You’re defending the puppy while I’m trying to tell you it will be a wolf someday.
Blizzard decided to implement it so they must have thought it was a good use of dev time and made players happy and appreciative. They’d be way more knowledgeable about that than you, don’t you think? I mean the proof is there. They put it in so they saw value. Difference is, you don’t agree and somehow are making your personal disagreement out to be the absolute truth of the matter here. You don’t like it. Thats the end of it. I don’t like that there are suddenly female Adeptus Custodes in Warhammer 40k when for 30 years it says they were all sons of the Emperor. Doesn’t matter that I don’t like it though because Games Workshop thought the change had value and implemented it. Same here.
If we were serious about combating psychological problems that are widespread in the game Blizzard would give us a FOMO toggle to turn off all of the FOMO.
reference.
If you have any feedback about it, my DMs are open”
