custom capes

ShAdOw 999

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2008

W/Mo

wouldn't it be great if guild wars introduced capes where you could add a custom picture?? ohhhh think of the possibilities

maybe something to think about in gw2??

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Oh imagine the downloads.....and the penis images....no thanks.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

I've thought of the possibilities, and it isn't a pretty picture.

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by pamelf
Oh imagine the downloads.....and the penis images....no thanks.
yeah lots of inappropriate capes everywhere lucky us.

ShAdOw 999

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2008

W/Mo

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,,

xiaotsu

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Doomlore Shrine

Just Us Gamers [JUGs]

R/

Too much work, a few more cape design options would be plenty. Seriously, it's bad enough that we have to read what some idiots say, I'd rather not have to see stupid capes everywhere.

Seems like a good idea in theory, but think about it, logically, the maturity level of GW won't be able to handle it.

Thorondor Port

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

British Columbia

W/

I think capes are ugly as hell. I refuse to wear one unless pvp forces me too.

ShAdOw 999

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2008

W/Mo

yeah your right,,

it saddens me at some of the unfriendly immature people that swarm gw

oh well i can always hope for better cape options

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

Quote:
Originally Posted by xiaotsu
Seems like a good idea in theory, but think about it, logically, the maturity level of GW won't be able to handle it.
i like this. very strong, solid point.

ax mastery

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2007

My cape would have pr0n! on it immeadeatly.

/signed

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by ax mastery
My cape would have pr0n! on it immeadeatly.

/signed
Case in point why it's a bad idea.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

I would LOVE to make my own cape (actually put my college degree to work), but then only my guild would get to use it, and with 1 of us mia (dead computer) that doesnt leave many of us to show it off.

I do agree that there would be too many immature drawings (heck, just look at the names people come up with...let alone some artwork!).

sigh good idea, wrong place for it.

RPGmaniac

RPGmaniac

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
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,,
To bypass the "flesh color" filter, I give you two words:

Purple penis

Operative 14

Operative 14

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Arizona, USA

[OOP] Order of the Phoenix I

I'd love to have this option for my multigaming group. However, as others have said, I could easily imagine ramapant abuse by immature users.

Dark Kal

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by xiaotsu
Seems like a good idea in theory, but think about it, logically, the maturity level of GW won't be able to handle it.
/signed

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Serenitysong

Serenitysong

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2008

Clandestiny of Solitude [LaZy]

E/

This would be a nightmare and unless Anet comes up with an amazing filter system I hope they don't even consider it for GW2

pamelf

pamelf

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Lost Templars [LoTe]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by RPGmaniac
To bypass the "flesh color" filter, I give you two words:

Purple penis
Lol, I'm sorry I was actually in stitches when I read that. I like your avatar btw, noticed it ages ago.

Jam Jar

Jam Jar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

[Disc]

W/

It’s a great idea, but personally I wouldn’t accept it. There are LOTS of available selections now, and I think that no one should complain. Uploading other pictures may not work out since you can’t edit the color of the picture, so I think that just staying with what you have now is good.

beregond

beregond

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2007

Paladins of Eternal Truth[POET]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by ax mastery
My cape would have pr0n! on it immeadeatly.

/signed
And that my friends is why this is /notsigned by me.

Paladin the Tank

Paladin the Tank

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

Texas

Nagas With Attitude [nWa]

Mo/Me

have you seen the spray paint tags on CS:Source?? playing that for a day would show you how much dirty, vulgar, obscene, and just rude images ppl could put into this "T" rated game.

You Look Grim

You Look Grim

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

Ecnegilletni Laicifitra [朔mud]

Quote:
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

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

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.