POE 1 / POE 2 - Arachnophobia mode

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Dragoon_Diver#5241 wrote:

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TheKnave69#5275 wrote:

Sounds like an mtx opportunity to me.

you are late to the party
search for arachnomorph pet

I was thinking that all spiders be reskinned as bunny rabbits...with very sharp teeth.

hate every word of this

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Thorkam#3227 wrote:

People replying to this thread clearly don't have a phobia. It's not something you can casually face and improve just to play a game.

Indeed. Some people think that disliking something is the same as a phobia.
Some just do the regular “how dare you to try to change anything in PoE” thing.

Amongst the phobias that are common and easier to fix are arachnophobia and trypophobia. One is just a model replacement… maybe an ant or just something that is mot present in the game like a doll. The other is just a texture replacement.

I am sorry but I have Tripanophobia (fear of needles) bordering on the psychosis level, I know exactly the issues we face.
Sadly, wish it wasn’t so, the world cannot adjust to all of us and we have to adjust to the world.
Be it by avoidance etc. there is no other alternative.
If you’re that triggered by spiders you don’t go to the cinema to see Eight Legged Freaks (circa 2002) and you don’t play games with spiders as a commonly featured monster. It’s not rocket science for my phobia or yours.
I genuinely do not see why PoE hasn’t had this requested for all these years yet with the advent of PoE2 all of a sudden is ‘expected’ to pander to 2-3 phobias and open the floodgates to being forced by precedent to cater to every single one.
It’s not going to happen, not ever. It’s akin to coming to my house for dinner and demanding a vegetarian meal, sorry you can ask but the answer will be the same ‘just don’t eat the meat’. (The truth is, maybe due to my ASD, that the real answer would be far far less polite than that)

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Sargoth_CZ#3391 wrote:

If this is really meant seriously and not as a joke, my personal opinion would be to avoid making adjustments to care for someone's inability to adapt to our world.
I mean this will full respect and no bad intentions or mockery. Phobias are very uncomfortable mental states which were created by an event or other people.. and can be removed a similar way. Invest your energy in removing them instead of finding way to avoid them.. it will make you happier in a long run :)

The amount of ignorance and failure to realize that a "Fight or Flight" reaction that is not in our control with a phobia ... and you basically have said "Sorry, but you should just face it anyway and get over it."

If it's a simple model toggle on all the arachnids in the game and it takes little to no development time? I'm all for this ...

If someone figures out a Mod to replace all the models in-game Client-Side...? Even more all for this ...

I have to play Minion Masters so they swarm through the level so I don't Physically See them in any way ...

You speak as if it's a simple thing to fix ... I've been tormented by IRL incidents that flash through my mind if a game is "too realistic looking".

You wouldn't tell someone who'd been "assaulted" and has PTSD to simply "Find a way to get over it" ... that sticks with you for decades ... or even your whole life.
:-)

it's everywhere nowadays, because devs start caring and people start not forcing themselves to endure shit like that.

plenty of monsters beside spiders, and fucking easy to switch models ( if an indie dev on a baby game can do it, i trust big money cash shop devs can do it ).


now we might need a c*nt filter too in game to avoid all those "fack you endure it or leave the game"

basic
empathy

and you failed that

I played poe 2 and in act 2 I had to pause for a bit... quick google and found this thread. Instantly I was expecting exactly the responses I saw. I played from closed poe beta and this is I think my first post ever. Jesus Christ spiders modeled and animated in act 2 are just beyond my worst nightmares, and to prove my point even people without arachnophobia instantly know the place im talking about. I dont ****** care about "deal with it" (which i had to do) but from this one thing act two is the worst one for me. We (people with arachnophobia) would be very much ok with just removing the legs from spiders, if there was anything like arachnophobia mdoe just remove the legs thats it, or give me a microtransaction to disable legs, whoever animated those spiders in act two deserves medal and my worst wishes. I know that there are a looooot more pressing matters but god damn those spiders are literally the worst spiders I encountered in video games ever.

I'm just here to share my arachnophobia woes after finding this in my search as well. I won't get over it and I'll whine and ask for a mode to hide or remove the legs. But I'll still play, just don't be a dick to people who share there woes. It's not likely that it'll be implemented anyway but we can still vent >:T