Thread: The 7.3 Armour preview is offensive

[This has already been brought up on the General forums but I feel its important to be mentioned here aswell]

As said in the title the previewed armours for the 7.3 dungeon showcases armours with blatant influences comparable to the colonising forces that attacked the America's centuries ago

Especially after all the fiasco's with wrongly depicted cultures before you'd think they'd avoid doing this again. Most of the future sets seem fine(someone more knowledgeable than me may correct me-) but two of the sets appear to have strong influence from European armours of the 1500s? Particularly spanish and french influence which would be fine in another setting but- in a Latin American and SEA influenced context can be extremely insensitive considering the history behind those forces and what they did to those regions

Some potential alterations to the sets to lessen this invocation of historical genocides of the cultures we're representing so we don't accidentally put fascistic themes into our heroes' wardrobe. With better future consideration behind the contexts of such influences

It's definitely fixable, it's just gonna take a bit. But I don't trust them to do anything; the New World set is still in the game, after all.

Bumping this thread as well. I mentioned this in the general thread: I think it's in very bad taste to have outfits inspired by conquistadores in Dawntrail of all expansions. It makes me question the integrity of the dev team and their promises to "do better" and utilize sensitivity readers. Why evoke the image of colonizers in the expansion inspired by the Americas pre-contact?

I haven't really considered canceling my sub before but this might be the last straw for me. This will alienate a lot of players.

But to talk about potential solutions, the easiest would be to introduce a recolor or dyeable version of past gear (the Yuweyawata Field Station gear, for example) to replace this new set.

It's likely too late to edit certain elements of the set we've seen screen shots of. But if it's a potential option: the helmets of the armored gear and the frontal fabric on the gear with the big hats are the elements that evoke the look of a conquistador the most, in my opinion. Changing the helmets to a tiara or hair clip and removing that fabric would do a lot to lessen the resemblance to a conquistador outfit.