Everyone has that one player in the group whose character is just draped from head to toe in fashion, skins, and cool accessories. Maybe it’s you. Others don’t care much about their character’s appearance, focusing only on stats, gameplay, and strength.
Most online games offer a variety of options to customize your character to your liking. This often goes far beyond the character editor. Whether hairstyles, war paint, makeup, decorative armor, skins, capes, jewelry – the wildest outfits are possible. However, visual adjustments for the character are often associated with costs in games.
We want to know: Are you a fashion player?
From trashy to chic, cool or simple and elegant – Anything is possible
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: It doesn’t matter if you like to make your character look funny or if they should appear elegant and beautiful. It’s generally about whether you have fun customizing yourself in-game.
We have a few fashion players in the Mein MMO editorial team who approach fashion very differently.
Patrick has always been looking for style gear: It’s important to me that my character looks cool or unique. I’ve always been looking for style gear in WoW, transmogging my modern shaman with stuff from the old world. I also have almost every Teemo skin in LoL. I wouldn’t spend a lot of money on it – but a cool appearance can distract from lack of skill.
Our editor-in-chief Schuhman associates a traumatic experience with fashion: In my first MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, you could dye your equipment. Someone once stopped me in shock and asked: “Excuse me. But I have to ask you this: Are you colorblind?!”
So no, I usually don’t care about it. I think it’s cool when the char looks good. But I would never go out and farm specific items just because they look great. – Mounts, yes, I want something cool, but not necessarily overly matched.
Irie finds the appearance of her character extremely important and wants to convey a certain feel: I find the appearance of my character in an MMO extremely important. I like it when their outfits fit well with their class or convey a certain feeling. Therefore, I’ve spent countless hours in FFXIV putting together the perfect glamours for my jobs.
However, I would never prioritize appearance over stats. In Destiny, my favorite cloak was the Shattered Vault with ornaments. I therefore ran the Vault of Glass countless times until I finally got a cloak with the perfect stats.
Micha cares more about the stats, and if fashion, then really trashy: To reach the max light level 400 in Destiny 1, you had to collect strike-specific gear. The cloak came in three colors, one more outrageous than the other. Malok’s helmet already looks very unconventional. It all looked so ridiculous that I thought: Just slap on the ugliest shader you can find.
Cortyn’s importance of fashion depends on the game: It strongly depends on the respective game. In MMOs like World of Warcraft or in games like Dead by Daylight, I place great importance on a coherent (or silly) appearance. In role-playing games, however, the visuals are particularly important to me – especially when you can create your own character with your own story.
I, Leya, am into fashion in games and love the diversity: Unlike in real life, fashion in games is important to me. I think it’s cool how differently a character can be designed and how much a slight color change or a small gimmick can make a difference.
Especially great is when many players meet, and you can recognize a piece of personality in the different characters. It has happened to me several times that I stopped in front of a group of players and simply marveled at the external diversity, wondering who was behind the screen.
Now it’s your turn!
Enough chitchat from the editorial team, now it’s your turn. Please participate in our little survey about fashion and games. Feel free to let us know in the comments how you handle fashion – Or even better: Post a picture of your character.
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