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When MMOs were new, the iconic chainmail bikini was a whole damn thing. It was the big joke in the games industry, the idea that somehow, a bikini top made out of chainmail was more protective than just, you know, a bikini made out of cloth, and we all snarked about it and yet the games kept adding them anyway. The first MMO I ever played had leather and plate bikinis, however, and wearable by all characters, not just The Ladies, and somehow to my memory I never actually wore a chain bikini until World of Warcraft. Either way, they were always ridiculous. If I want my toon to look slinky, just give me the slinky dress.
Even so, I probably wouldn’t ban the chainmail bikini from the universe if given the ultimate delete stick. I tend to follow the ol’ if it’s not hurting anybody, leave it be philosophy, and hurting my eyes with tacky doesn’t count. Still… you could troll the heck out of a Star Wars MMO by deleting lightsabers, save high fashion in Guild Wars 2 by deleting neon dyes, and destroy hoarding MMOs forever by deleting bags. Maybe these things would be a net positive as well as funny?
Surely you can think of something whose absence would make your MMO a better place. If you could banish one piece of gear from MMOs, what would it be?
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