What if you’re afraid of crabs too? I’m also curious why there are many filters for spiders but not other insects? I mean a lot of other ones are creepy too?
But if you have that filter on will it also turn the Nerubians into crabs? How will that affect NPCs who talk to you? Cinematics? Raids and Dungeons?
There are some phobias that are very common and some phobias that are very rare.
Arachnophobia is very common.
Kabourophobia is extremely rare.
In an ideal world with infinite resources, Blizz could put a list of phobias and make accessibility modes for every single one of them, but that’s not the world we live in. There are infinite problems but only a finite amount of resources to solve them, so you have to do a bit of triage.
From what I’ve seen it turns them into Makrura.
arachnophobia is far more common
Also spiders aren’t insects
Spiders is the most common, probably came out more in the accessibility surveys and research interviews. This is the first attempt, done by one singular guy and they could always add more later.
Here you go. Plenty to read and learn.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wow-war-withins-arachnophobia-filter-180002427.html?guccounter=1
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wow-the-war-withins-new-arachnophobia-filter-that-turns-spiders-into-crabs-was-mapped-out-by-a-lone-developer-but-she-had-a-wonderful-timeshe-likes-spiders/
https://www.gameleap.com/articles/wow-the-war-within-arachnophobia-filter-feature
I think more people will use this filter as a joke versus people who actually need it. Crabs are very similar to spiders i can imagine that if one is so scared of spiders to need a filter for it, crabs arent much better.
Shouldve made them low poly orbs like the game grounded.
Phobias are irrational. Checks out
Emetophobia has ruined my life (had to drop out of school it; was that bad), but I am not clamoring for a anti-vomit filter.
Too many of these now a days
I dunno, I think in an ideal world nobody would have these phobias to begin with.
i mean the answer is simple to all these threads:
don’t like the filter? think its stupid? a waste of time? then don’t use it! wow so simple
But we don’t live in an ideal world. Therefore we work with the world that we have.
Yeah, I was just confused as to how it would be an ideal world if people still exist who would be unable to play games without phobia filters.
These threads logic boils down to:
“Well if we cant help everyone we should help no one”
I think I’m hearing an echo.
Ok, so in a semi-ideal world with infinite resources, but where phobias would still exist, Blizz could put a list of phobias and make accessibility modes for every single one of them lol
Or save what little resources you have to make the actual game better. Plot, NPC, quests, PvP and not kow-tow to people that are scared of cartoon spiders. I have arachnophobia and if the cartoonish spiders in WoW were enough to trigger me I wouldn’t be playing the game. Do we censor Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web now? It’s a slippery slope.
Lastly, if Blizzard had infinite resources and accommodated everyone with everything the game would be a giant incoherent mess.
A huge plot point for the next expansion is around the Nerubians and to just crabwash it all is ridiculous.
That’s exactly why Blizz is doing this. Because some people are more arachnophobic than you, and they figured that those people probably won’t be interested in a spider-heavy expansion.
It’s easy to forget, but Blizz is a company for profit, not a charity. Everything they do, every step they take, is either to make money or to avoid losing money. They probably figured that a Spider Filter would cost a very tiny amount of man-hours and give them a non-insignificant amount of arachnophobic money, so it was worth doing it.
Aside from what others have said, I think it’s important to note that finding something icky/creepy is not the same thing as a phobia.
They should of had a “sexy filter” instead of what they did to that painting that is now a bowl of fruit lol
they should have turned them all into cute puppies.