@faceyourdemon said in Eastern Winds Jade beard disappeared from shops outpost:
@wolfmanbush Since Rare wont name their reasoning behind this action and keep radio silence, we'll take it as its the reason.
Oh and ill definitely call it SJW drama because thats what it is, cant find common ground when you just call the shots without a discussion. Too late for that.
Can Rare do that? Absolutely! But it dosent mean we have to like it.
I value transparency and would like to see more of it when possible.
I've gone through feedback/reactions to this decision and it brings out a significant amount of escalation that goes beyond what is happening within the game and it creates a lot of opinion heat.
This creates a situation that they refer to as witch hunts on the site. A concern here and the fragility of discourse is that people being fired up about their feelings towards "sjw" related decisions will personally attack people that agree with the decision to remove the cosmetic.
Escalation is the issue, where it goes beyond personal opinions into large scale personal attacks against people that feel differently.
I like the cosmetic but if it becomes an issue where the situation is escalating it's understandable that they avoid getting into details so that the heat can be brought down, there will be negativity about it but I think we all benefit by trying to deescalate the situation so that people aren't targeted in cruel ways for their views.
This is one cosmetic in a game, maybe we can get an altered version sometime in the future but imo it's not something that should be used to fight larger ongoing cyber battles that really just result in people being unkind towards strangers.