There is a trend with some of Blizzard’s design decisions regarding glowing eyes that I need to express a disagreement with. It is vital that pupils need to be visible in characters to make them appear as “persons” and not “monsters.” The Zandalari are by-far the worst victims of the glowing eyes. Regardless of the lore reasons, the eyes are far too vibrant to make out the pupil shape making them appear more like animated troll golems than “people.”
The elves, I understand, have eye colors as an essential element of their design. However, the “Light” eyes of the Blood Elves are also near Zandalari-levels of absurdity making it very difficult to make out pupils or corneas.
I humbly suggest Blizzard tone down glowing eyes in future designs and even tone down the vibrancy in their existing models. You can still have them, but they need to remain muted enough to discern internal eye structures in close contact without too much difficulty. Otherwise, you are deliberately making them look like they are not people.
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What you meant to say , is while all the new eyes customization are nice and all , you would like even more option to make them look like normal/real life eyes??
If not then i must disagree , players choices/preference/taste on how their own character look should never be reduced or limited because someone else doesnt want the game to have that .
Oh I of course don’t care about player preference. I’m saying there is an effect with a given design decision.
It’s the same reason why Death Knights/Lich King have basically no pupils.
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Then yes i agree , they should go both ways , why shouldnt you get normal looking eyes when we got glowy monsterish eyes ^^
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see, it wasnt a human male paladin this time. It was a human male priest…which…is almost the same, but…
AND hes wearing a blindfold!!! LMAO
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You shall never see pupils, in my “monster” eyes!!!
Blood elf eyes are my favorite fantasy eyes by far. I really enjoy how the whole eye seems to be colorful. You can see their eye structures if you look closely. I hope the other glowy eye races like draenei get that look.
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I don’t want to look more human. I don’t need your human pupils.
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Yes I agree the Blood Elves are fine except for the Light-style eyes. Those are obtuse.
Since I never look at my toons face and I doibt my guildies do either I could give a ratstallions boohiney how they look
If you didn’t care about them, then why read this topic and leave a post?
Or just have glowing eye options to please both people who want monster glow eyes and human eyes.
Oh, we’re people…we’re just not Human.
As for internal eye structures, do Belfs have pupils? This character clearly doesn’t, though she has an iris.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiiYFpfkLUK-gjptiUuqLfPTc9_R?e=9hud9f
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I agree. It’s actually my opinion that living races should have actual eyes, while undead/reanimated ones can have glowing orbs.
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