That design is pretty awesome, Kuro.
I myself wouldn't wear something based on a game that isn't my favourite thing and more... outwards with what it is, but saying that I do wear t-shirts based on bands that people in my area would take the piss out of.
This would be cool as merchandise
Tyla
Snow Bunny
You wouldn't catch me dead in a shirt like that.
Are people such complete losers these days they let "guild wars" into their real lives?
Are people such complete losers these days they let "guild wars" into their real lives?
Hyper.nl
I'm still waiting for a big pluche charr shaman in the GW store.
A11Eur0
I'll bet half the people in here saying it isn't cool to wear a game shirt are only saying it because others are saying it isn't cool to wear a game shirt....and they'd secretly rock this every day and be proud of it.
Me...I'll pass, even though my guild's cape is pure badassery and doesn't look much like a cape logo at all.
Me...I'll pass, even though my guild's cape is pure badassery and doesn't look much like a cape logo at all.
Gregslot
Take a moment to look at the "What does it look like?" window... im sure none of those girls (the guys i really dont care) play WoW or even play video-games. It doesnt show the avarage wow player, so we can easly say its a fake propaganda. If the avarage wow population looks like that... well then im santa and also im playing the wrong game.
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I have two guild wars t-shirts sitting in my closet at home from preordering Guild Wars campaigns. Both have never been worn. Ever. FOR GOOD REASON
ZenRgy
ITT: Guru takes a crash course in fashion.
Relnor
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http://kotaku.com/5062184/behold-the...i-logo-t+shirt > Your opinion.
Besides: How many people run around in t-shirts of their favorite bands or branded t-shirts (Adidas, Nike, whatever ...) for that matter? It's just a different way of identifying oneself with a certain group. Now - back to the question: I wouldn't care for it. But thanks for asking. |
Nick Of Troy
I'd buy a GW shirt if it looked good. I'd wear it in public too, it's no different to wearing a band tee or sports team jersey.
pamelf
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I'd buy a GW shirt if it looked good. I'd wear it in public too, it's no different to wearing a band tee or sports team jersey.
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Now, consider the sporting shirt. Here in Australia our sport is AFL. Now, when there's a game on that day we have absolutely no problem with people showing team support. However, in the off season generally it's not a good thing to wear a sporting shirt. (This may differ in your respective contry/state) Sporting shirts give off an aura of a beer drinking, lazy individual who's spous/roomate etc is the one who has to do the cleaning/housework because you're too busy being lazy watching footy re-runs with your mates. Too much team love is not a good thing.
Now: a GAMING shirt simply gives off the message "I have no life; this game is it. I've never learned a thing about fashion. My mum still buys my clothes and washes my undies."
Fashion DOES say something about a person. We make all our pre-judgements on what a person wears and how they present themselves. To think otherwise is naive. Haven't you ever noticed the the best way to strike up conversation with someone is to make some comment on their appearance?
AKB48
Cool idea, but I just want the cap on it, anything else would just kill the T shirt
Nick Of Troy
Once again, it's no different to wearing any other article of clothing which shows off a brand, be it a band tee, a Wallabies jersey or a $1000 Prada bag. Of course what you wear gives other people an insight into your interests, else we'd all be ambling around in grey tracksuits. You wear a logo to show your support or interest in what that logo represents. You even admit people's perceptions of such a representation differ, but it's not so vast as state-to-state, but from each person.
You are correct when you say people are judged on what they wear, but i fail to see how you can differentiate so vastly between the meanings that a Wallabies Jersey and a Guild Wars shirt offer. They are, in essence, the exact same thing (that being, a logo/image on an article of clothing)! So how can the sports jersey mean "oh, i can see he likes that team", yet a games jersey means "holy crap, what a nerd i bet he plays that game every waking moment"? What is so fundamentally different about these two pastimes to warrant such an extreme polarization in reaction? I wear my Oblivion teeshirt for the same reason some mallcore kid wears his Slipknot shirt, which is the same reason a Wallabies fan wears his jersey to the Tri-Nations; it offers my fellow citizens a message: "This is something I enjoy"
It is an invitation for the curious to inquire, for the like-minded to discuss.
In an age where the video games industry is worth $8 billion per year, i think the stereotype of people who play them as pale, socially-inept geeks has been left long in the dust. If, during my travels, i encounter someone who thinks "what a total geek" and another who thinks "I wonder if that game's any good", I know who I'd rather strike up a conversation with
You are correct when you say people are judged on what they wear, but i fail to see how you can differentiate so vastly between the meanings that a Wallabies Jersey and a Guild Wars shirt offer. They are, in essence, the exact same thing (that being, a logo/image on an article of clothing)! So how can the sports jersey mean "oh, i can see he likes that team", yet a games jersey means "holy crap, what a nerd i bet he plays that game every waking moment"? What is so fundamentally different about these two pastimes to warrant such an extreme polarization in reaction? I wear my Oblivion teeshirt for the same reason some mallcore kid wears his Slipknot shirt, which is the same reason a Wallabies fan wears his jersey to the Tri-Nations; it offers my fellow citizens a message: "This is something I enjoy"
It is an invitation for the curious to inquire, for the like-minded to discuss.
In an age where the video games industry is worth $8 billion per year, i think the stereotype of people who play them as pale, socially-inept geeks has been left long in the dust. If, during my travels, i encounter someone who thinks "what a total geek" and another who thinks "I wonder if that game's any good", I know who I'd rather strike up a conversation with
Spazzer
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Who wants a shirts with a cape on it ?
I made myself a real cape and when im not ingame im running around town with it. |
Winston
A shirt with one of your titles on it would be cool...
pamelf
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A shirt with one of your titles on it would be cool...
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isamu kurosawa
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a) a Spice Girls shirt b) a Megadeth shirt c) a Ramones shirt. They are all 'band' shirts but they say very different things about the person wearing them.
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I personally tag an unofficial addition to the term band as "Have talent" as well. so there the spice girls loose on two counts.
Snow Bunny
The only shirt I'd wear would display the most exclusive guild in guild wars:
Come Honor [Face]
It'd be a good shirt.
I have a cross country shirt that said "XXXX XXX Cross Country" on the front, and
"In your eye" on the back.
Quality apparel
Come Honor [Face]
It'd be a good shirt.
I have a cross country shirt that said "XXXX XXX Cross Country" on the front, and
"In your eye" on the back.
Quality apparel
pamelf
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Technically only the latter two are Band T-shirts. The former is a Group. It is only a band if the members actually play instruments.
I personally tag an unofficial addition to the term band as "Have talent" as well. so there the spice girls loose on two counts. |
Jake_Steel
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I'm sorry, but that's the ugliest T-shirt I've ever seen.
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Then you haven't seen very many T-Shirts.
I wear Video Game shirts all the time. What kind of self hating geek would be so into a video game that they troll a FORUM for the game but don't have the balls or stainless steel ovaries to wear a T-shirt from it?
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Now: a GAMING shirt simply gives off the message "I have no life; this game is it. I've never learned a thing about fashion. My mum still buys my clothes and washes my undies."
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w00t!
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Then you haven't seen very many T-Shirts.
I wear Video Game shirts all the time. What kind of self hating geek would be so into a video game that they troll a FORUM for the game but don't have the balls or stainless steel ovaries to wear a T-shirt from it? Actually, it only gives that kind of impression to the sort of naive, superficial, ignorant dipsticks that I wouldn't want to know in the first place. |
"Better to dress normally and be thought the nerd than to wear the Gamer shirt and remove all doubt." - w00t!
Jake_Steel
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln
"Better to dress normally and be thought the nerd than to wear the Gamer shirt and remove all doubt." - w00t! |
"Better not to give a tinker's damn what people think and wear what you like" - People over the age of 17, or anyone with a backbone.
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"Better not to give a tinker's damn what people think and where what you like" - People over the age of 17, or anyone with a backbone.
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You go gurl!
pamelf
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"Better not to give a tinker's damn what people think and wear what you like" - People over the age of 17, or anyone with a backbone.
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P.S. fixed spelling for you.
Kusandaa
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Now, consider the sporting shirt. Here in Australia our sport is AFL. Now, when there's a game on that day we have absolutely no problem with people showing team support. However, in the off season generally it's not a good thing to wear a sporting shirt. (This may differ in your respective contry/state) Sporting shirts give off an aura of a beer drinking, lazy individual who's spous/roomate etc is the one who has to do the cleaning/housework because you're too busy being lazy watching footy re-runs with your mates. Too much team love is not a good thing.
Now: a GAMING shirt simply gives off the message "I have no life; this game is it. I've never learned a thing about fashion. My mum still buys my clothes and washes my undies." |
In Montreal, if I wear a band or game T-shirt, I'll just melt in the crowd. Not saying everyone has, but I meet up with a lot of people of my age range (I'm 23) wearing those, and no one starts to assume on how you're violent if you like metal music, or a no-lifer if you're into video games. There was a bunch of Spanish dudes dressed like thugs in the bus the other day, and a Spanish-speaking businessman asked them how far was some stop. They answered him very politely (from what I gathered, they spoke half-English half-Spanish) and thanked the bus driver as they exited.
Can't always judge a book by its cover.
Of course there are exceptions, like I wouldn't give a very good impression if I showed up at a job interview in my gray jogging pants and my old KoRn T-shirt with holes as big as my fist in it...
pamelf
Oh I'm not disagreeing with you there. It is totally superficial, but unfortunately that's how human beings work. We make immediate judgments based solely on appearance/attitude/manner etc. What you choose to wear reflects all these things at once, and while you may be a completely different person to how you are originally perceived, the fact is simply that you WILL be perceived a certain way depending on what you have chosen to wear.
w00t!
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"Better not to give a tinker's damn what people think and where what you like" - People over the age of 17, or anyone with a backbone.
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Oh I'm not disagreeing with you there. It is totally superficial, but unfortunately that's how human beings work. We make immediate judgments based solely on appearance/attitude/manner etc. What you choose to wear reflects all these things at once, and while you may be a completely different person to how you are originally perceived, the fact is simply that you WILL be perceived a certain way depending on what you have chosen to wear.
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Konig Des Todes
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meh too bad I can't stay in the same guild more than two weeks
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Also, that Diablo 3 shirt made me rofl. I'd almost wear that myself.
Anyways, back on topic:
I wouldn't mind getting the option, as long as the price is more then the manufacturing cost (which would be obvious). However, I wouldn't wear it. I might buy one just to wear when going to gaming conventions, which I have been to 0 so far. But I'd rather wear that Charr shirt that was mentioned before.
You might get me to buy a shirt with my guild cape if they bring in more guild designs, both emblems and backgrounds. And I get a good combination. I would not wear something that has a Kurzick symbol and all that stuff like in the OP. Name, maybe, some of my character names I like a lot so wouldn't mind wearing one, but all that extra "info," no, just no.
Also, it would depend on how they put the guild cape on the shirt. If they make a picture of the cape and stick that in or something, no no no. If they have the emblem with the background matching the cape (i.e., the shirt design won't have any cape boarders), then most likely, especially if Guild Wars isn't in big letters (just small letters would do).
That I would wear. And to those who say "wearing gaming shirts are for nerds." If you argue that then I will say "wearing a shirt with any design/logo are for fanboys." No one cares if people wear shirts with logos.
After all, I saw a girl a while back wearing a Naruto jacket (exact replica of his pathetic one in the show). And I saw my class mates oogling her. So yeah, people don't really care about what you wear in that idea...
ZenRgy
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Of course there are exceptions, like I wouldn't give a very good impression if I showed up at a job interview in my gray jogging pants and my old KoRn T-shirt with holes as big as my fist in it...
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Snow Bunny
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I wouldn't give you the job just for owning a KoRn t-shirt.
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My friend don't even know I played GW.
Jake_Steel
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Oh I'm not disagreeing with you there. It is totally superficial, but unfortunately that's how human beings work. We make immediate judgments based solely on appearance/attitude/manner etc. What you choose to wear reflects all these things at once, and while you may be a completely different person to how you are originally perceived, the fact is simply that you WILL be perceived a certain way depending on what you have chosen to wear.
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pamelf
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No that is how SOME subhumans work. People worth knowing do NOT act this way.
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You see someone walking down the street wearing a Ramones shirt you automatically think they're a fan. This could be true, or untrue. Ramones shirts are now fashion items and most people wearing them haven't even heard of the band.
Walking down the street if you saw a guy in a gaming shirt you'd automatically assume he was a gamer. While in most cases this is true it's still a superficial value judgment.
With each of these immediate assumptions (and trust me; if you have any brain function you make them - even in the tiniest insect species) comes a deeper assumption of how you've come to view these things in your life. These assumptions will differ from person to person, but they are still present. If you've had pleasant experiences with gamers for instance you will see their chosen dress as a positive thing and be more willing to begin an acquaintance with them. If your experience with gaming/gamers in general has been a negative one this chosen dress will immediately put you on your guard and basically remove any chance of acquaintance with this person.
Your experiences will shape the judgements you make of other people, but don't assume you don't make them. That's just naive. If we didn't make immediate judgments we would have no filtering system. Your dress, manner, demeanor, carriage; everything projects a certain image. People are visually and mentally stimulated by this image which causes value judgments; which can be either positive or negative. To argue otherwise is simply naive, and frankly delusional. Everyone likes to think they're the angel who doesn't makke judgments, but everything you do, every day you live you make judgments. Not only on people but on everything you interract with.
Jake_Steel
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Incorrect. You may like to think that you don't make superficial judgements but everyone does. You can't actually tell me that if you go out of an evening, see a girl in a dress so short you can see her bra, and a tube top that pretty much has her tits falling out you don't make an immediate assumption.
You see someone walking down the street wearing a Ramones shirt you automatically think they're a fan. This could be true, or untrue. Ramones shirts are now fashion items and most people wearing them haven't even heard of the band. Walking down the street if you saw a guy in a gaming shirt you'd automatically assume he was a gamer. While in most cases this is true it's still a superficial value judgment. With each of these immediate assumptions (and trust me; if you have any brain function you make them - even in the tiniest insect species) comes a deeper assumption of how you've come to view these things in your life. These assumptions will differ from person to person, but they are still present. If you've had pleasant experiences with gamers for instance you will see their chosen dress as a positive thing and be more willing to begin an acquaintance with them. If your experience with gaming/gamers in general has been a negative one this chosen dress will immediately put you on your guard and basically remove any chance of acquaintance with this person. Your experiences will shape the judgements you make of other people, but don't assume you don't make them. That's just naive. If we didn't make immediate judgments we would have no filtering system. Your dress, manner, demeanor, carriage; everything projects a certain image. People are visually and mentally stimulated by this image which causes value judgments; which can be either positive or negative. To argue otherwise is simply naive, and frankly delusional. Everyone likes to think they're the angel who doesn't makke judgments, but everything you do, every day you live you make judgments. Not only on people but on everything you interract with. |
Pwny Ride
No it would not be cool as merchandise at all. I enjoy having a fantastic social life. I prefer to keep it that way.
daze
A t-shirt with a guild emblem is the dumbest idea ever...
Now if i could buy an actual cape that matches my GW cape, i would wear that everywhere. If someone at work asks me why im wearing a cape ill just reply "Im bringing it back"
Now if i could buy an actual cape that matches my GW cape, i would wear that everywhere. If someone at work asks me why im wearing a cape ill just reply "Im bringing it back"
The Little Viking
1 question: how many of you when you ordered your copy of factions or nightfall also got a t-shirt with your game? I did. now 1 more question? How many of you wear it? I do. I kinda like the idea myself...some info I would leave off of course..titles and stuff like that..but since my guild cape is rather simple but elegant, yea, I would wear it. After all, by the looks of the link, you DO have the option to put on the shirt what ever you choose. It may not be a BIG seller, but can we honestly say some of the other mechandise that is offered a BIG seller?
daze
If ANet sent me a GWAMM tshirt or cape for achieving the prestigious title of GWAMM then GWAMM would be a little more worth the effort.
Jake_Steel
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No it would not be cool as merchandise at all. I enjoy having a fantastic social life. I prefer to keep it that way.
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Some people's children.
Video Gamers COME OUT OF THE ELECTRONIC CLOSET!
imnotyourmother
right on I am going to gets me one. My guild name is fab. It is look how stupid I am...