Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
It's already possible to hide other players if there's too many of them on a screen. It's also possible to turn off spell effects and block another player for any reason to prevent them from communicating with you. If this proposed feature were to be implemented, it would simply be another tool in the form of player choice to tweak the game to their liking.

It's all well and good talking about 'choice', but I can't help but note that many players only want 'choice' when it involves an option that they want and it allows for them to be front and centre.

It's a feature that not everybody is going to like, yet that can easily be said of...every single element added to the game in general. It's about compromising and understanding that different groups of players value different things.

A lot of us don't care about the glamour used by others. We don't necessarily want to see it and if the option to disable it were added, we'd embrace it. Others care deeply about glamour and like seeing the outfits that other players piece together.

Both 'sides' can easily co-exist. The people who want to show off and look at the glamour used by other players can simply not make use of the toggle and continue to do what they usually do. Meanwhile, if added, those who want to make use of the toggle can do so and...there would likely be very little fanfare involved.
Certain content like Eureka or Hunts will benefit from having said option. It's not uncommon that some players with a modest system have problems with loading times or FPS, having both options (using generic character model and/or hide others) will help.

I played others F2P MMO's that heavily lean towards selling cosmetics and at least have one of those options. No problems there at all.