Has Blizzard ever officially commented on ever allowing via transmog to alter the color of our gear ?
With how uninspired BFA gear is, it would be great allowing the color of your gear to be edited.
There are so many pieces and sets that would get a breath of life if we could alter their colors. It would give a ton more options for whatever set one was trying to make. I could see some iconic pieces or sets made so they cannot be altered, but it would be nice to be able to fine tune other pieces to create to mogs and themes.
Some pieces unfortunately only come in one color with not much that really goes with it. Other pieces might come in 4 or 5 colors and sadly not fit your mog or theme. There are a lot of non set pieces that would look great with many different mogs if we were allowed to alter the colors.
AFAIK, there’s never been any official or unofficial developer comment on tinting gear, player housing, omniversal flying, or any subject a vocal subset of the player base has been asking for.
Why would they? They say “yes” and it becomes a torrent of demands for schedule info and immediate release. If they say “no” they get swarms of enraged players demanding they change their mind and arguing fruitlessly but stridently.
The only way to protect their development priorities and schedules is to keep them to themselves.
Dunno if they’ve ever commented on it but I know I’ve brought it up plenty of times on the forums, discussed it with others and seen PLENTY OF others bring up the subject. ESPECIALLY in recent years.
Inevitably some naysayer will show up pretending to know more than he possibly could about coding and claim that blizz couldn’t or shouldn’t do it because reasons (amount of coding, cost, manpower) but as always these are things the average player has absolutely no knowledge of/business discussing on blizzards behalf. In any case, these idiots are no different than the naysayers who said the same ignorant things about a whole host of features that have been implemented to wow(transmog, flight, party sync, timewalking, tw raids and so many many more)
The excuse that blizz couldn’t do something that other gaming companies have been doing for years is falling on more and more deaf ears.
I don’t think the nay sayers have ever said Blizzard couldn’t do something like a dye system… I think its more whether or not they would do something like this - and try to outline some of the costs for doing so.
The most basic example of a cost is developer time - If you do a dye system, that means those developers can’t do other things because they are busy putting together a dye system. And you have to make the argument that the ability to change the color of your gear - seperate from the transmog system is worth the other project that doesn’t get done.
You may think its worth it - others might think otherwise.
Thanks forum-goer. I feel so much more secure in your knowledge of the inner workings of blizz’ day-to-day/year-to-year/expac-expac logistical man-power necessities/priorities.
It would be nice if for once, just once, forums could realize that they are just that; forums. Just for one day. Then we could have productive discussions about the things we want blizz to do without the conjecture/supposition that we know more than we do or that one player’s request will somehow arbitrarily obstruct another’s…
Fear not friend. Rest assured that at this point raids, myth+, arena, questing and whatever else that gets you off each month will not be going away as long as the servers are live. It remains after all, along with reading feedback/requests, in the exclusive vested interest of blizzard entertainment and its stockholders.
Forums are a place of discussion - just because you may or may not like where the discussion goes or the points raised doesn’t mean it isn’t doing what it was intended to do.
I don’t know Blizzard’s inner workings any more or less than the next Blizzard fan.
All I do know is their “recent” history and actions that make gaming news. Those articles paint them as company that is only concerned about maximizing profits and reducing costs anyway they can.
Knowing that - you say you want a Dye system. So do I. But someone would have to make an argument within Blizzard about how that Dye system will make them a profit.
And someone might. They did that stupid SELFIE cam within wow after all.
I don’t think anyone argued for that one at any point… don’t inform me of they did. I don’t want to lose that much more faith in the community and feel the need to lose that much more in-game time fervently refuting idiocy on these forums.
I think the selfie cam is a straw man argument in this case not only because dyes have been in other games for years but also dyes have been requested many times over the course of several expacs.
The selfie cam however was most likely a wild hair up the a-r-s-e of whichever dev spent the most time on Twitter during WoD
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dyes have been in other games for years but also dyes have been requested many times over the course of several expacs. [/quote]
So your argument is because something is in another game - WoW should be able to do it.
Just because something is another game - does not mean WoW can or should do.
For the should part - I’ll use player character collision as an example. Other games have it so you character can’t run through other player characters. They collide with each other instead - and you have to run around them or kill them in order to get by. This would make PVP more interesting because it means it would force the enemy to fight you in certain situations instead of just run through you to whatever objective. But doing such a change would require them to massively rethink the entire game.
Regarding the can part - its possible for them to do it - Except no game that I am aware has ever implemented a dye system - that it wasn’t originally designed for - 16 + years after the initial launch.
I think the only comparable game that did it after launch might have been Everquest - and they did it like 2 years after the initial launch (you’d have to double check that - because I’m not sure.)
Every other game I can think of was designed with a dye system in mind from the beginning.
Which means Wow has a lot of armors they’d have to redo - more than any other game that has ever come before it.
Issues like vanilla armors being extremely low detail by today’s standards and the more modern armors being obviously higher detail. Some armors only have 1 basic color - others have 4 or 5 basic colours - which you’d then have to decide which part a dye would affect.
It’s not an easy ask - lets not pretend that it is. If were going to ask them to do it… it has to be somehow be worth their while.
No, my argument most recently and to you was that the selfie camera was a terrible comparison to other requests; both fulfilled and unfulfilled. The selfie camera was a weak example on your part.
Lol are you playing the same game as us since 4.3? 0.o
In any case, I guess peeps who wanted flight back in the day should’ve just went and played a game with a dev team who had a that idea in mind already. Or maybe peeps who wanted transmog before it ever existed in wow should’ve just went a played the host of other games that allowed you to change your appearance at the time right? God forbid anyone should propose any NEW CHANGES right prior to a NEW EXPANSION at a time when blizz has specifically asked for FEEDBACK. Oh and let’s just forget about the whole host of features introduced to just WoW after only being requested by players. Oh and that’s leaving out mentioning of the same exact process happening for literally every other game lacking a particular feature until someone… ionno PROPOSES it for the first/hundredth/thousandth time if that’s what it takes to see it implemented.
You understand what the purpose of the forums is yes? Are you okay?
Okay so before flying or transmog were introduced it was “stupid” for players to request those features simply because they hadn’t been added to the game yet?
Thanks buddy. I live for the moments just like this one when people say such stupid things that they make my argument for me…
Of course of course, and at the same time I’ll tell them all the hours I spent in SIEGE OF ORGRIMMAR farming tusks of mannoroth for transmog (literally risking divorce lmao) was a waste of time since transmogging gear was so stupid too.
You make me laugh harder… from your obvious stupidity and willingness to express the most grossly subjective opinions and pretend that any portion of the player base agrees with you
Yes, as I’ve already stated before; we all agree that blizz hates all the money generated from subs by people who love to fly/farm flying mounts.
I feel the need to be clear for you in particular(much much moreso than I would literally anyone else at this point) on this one; THATS THE MAJORITY OF THE PLAYERBASE SINCE BURNING CRUSADE YOU PLEB!
But hey you’re right, flying, transmog, timewalking, mythic+, legendaries, and literally everything else the playerbase has asked for that DIDNT exist prior just sucks simply and arbitrarily by token of the fact that players had to request those features…
One would assume the fact that WoW has been the most popular mmo since BC should speak for itself. But not in your case. After all I must remind myself that we are obviously playing two different games; made more than obvious by your outlandish assertions.
Pray tell, what else has set wow apart and made it so much more ludicrously popular and successful than virtually every other mmo in existence?
Let me guess at your answer if you’ll humor me for a second. I’ll bet my left nut you’d say something ridiculous like “so many people play this game because of word of mouth. Everyone plays WoW together because their real life friends said it was so great lololol” Right? Right?
Because according to you, WoW would still be as popular if we could just magically remove all the player suggestions that lead to the whole host of in-game features we take for granted.
To be clear again for you in particular; what I’m understanding your assertion to be is that World of Warcraft would be as supremely popular as it is today without flying or transmog.
Let me inform you of something. Intelligent, reasoning people don’t necessarily require proof to refute YOUR baseless assertions. Intelligent people simply allow themselves to travel down your train of thought, discover how irrational it is and come to the conclusion that in no reality/universe parallel to this one could that even be remotely true.