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You Look Grim · Mar 13, 2008, 05:44 AM // 05:44

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Originally Posted by ShAdOw 999

oh dear,, but what if they had a nude image detector??

like on some emails if it's detects too much flesh colour or such it wont work??

along those lines anyway,,

what email service has a flesh color filter o.o

Iuris · Mar 13, 2008, 07:53 AM // 07:53

Right, everyone dearly wants to see a goatse cape... In other words: no, please, no custom capes.

First:
-additional download burden. With everyone sporting a custom cape, we'd have to download new cape files with every player, increasing bandwidth and memory demands.

Second:
-content issues. While we would get many beautiful and ingenious capes, we'd also get many offensive ones. There are many people who would love nothing more than to wear a goatse cape around just to prank people. You'd get svastikas, invisibe pink unicorns, spaghetti monsters, burning crosses, inverted crosses, hammer and sickles... and with each of those, someone will ask himself "Why the hell am I playing this game with people like these?". And even a very few rotten apples are enough to spoil the fun for everyone else.

Third:
-I'm sure Anet is already aware of the above and if they were to allow custom capes, they'd have to have someone review the images for inappropriate content. That's a lot of work, though. Remember: milions of players, and everyone would want one. Reviewing a corresponding number of capes would take a whole team of people.

I would much sooner expect them to establish a "new cape images submission" system, allowing people to propose new general images in the form of a contest.

Mar 13, 2008, 07:53 AM // 07:53	#22
Iuris Forge Runner Join Date: Nov 2006 Guild: Crazy ducks from the Forest Profession: W/	Right, everyone dearly wants to see a goatse cape... In other words: no, please, no custom capes. First: -additional download burden. With everyone sporting a custom cape, we'd have to download new cape files with every player, increasing bandwidth and memory demands. Second: -content issues. While we would get many beautiful and ingenious capes, we'd also get many offensive ones. There are many people who would love nothing more than to wear a goatse cape around just to prank people. You'd get svastikas, invisibe pink unicorns, spaghetti monsters, burning crosses, inverted crosses, hammer and sickles... and with each of those, someone will ask himself "Why the hell am I playing this game with people like these?". And even a very few rotten apples are enough to spoil the fun for everyone else. Third: -I'm sure Anet is already aware of the above and if they were to allow custom capes, they'd have to have someone review the images for inappropriate content. That's a lot of work, though. Remember: milions of players, and everyone would want one. Reviewing a corresponding number of capes would take a whole team of people. I would much sooner expect them to establish a "new cape images submission" system, allowing people to propose new general images in the form of a contest.