Customization Options
In Shadowlands, you guys added a bunch of new character customization options and overhauled the whole character creation screen. The scope and breadth of Dracthyr customization is that taken to the extreme, with millions of options. It really seems like you guys are trying to push customization to the limit with the Dracthyr. Are you using that as a way to test out future changes for other races? Will this work as a template for future customization options for other races?
I mean, I think yes. We say ‘the extreme" or “push it to the limit,” and we want to keep raising that bar over time. Every new class, new race, everything we do we want to set a new standard for fidelity. And then where possible, we want to expand that and go back and bring others up to that bar. In a sense, going way back, 10 years ago in Mists of Pandaria, the Pandaren would just have smoother animations, crisper, higher level of fidelity than any other player races. Then we strove to make updated player models for everyone else down the line.
It was really exciting to see the lessons the artists have learned and the tech we’ve gotten to enable Dracthyr character customization. Bringing some of that to all of the existing player races is obviously a monumental project but I think it’s a direction we clearly want to move in. I think that giving people more ability to express and customize their avatars in our world is fundamental to what an MMO is all about. The fact that we’ve seen, even internally, people’s first experience sitting down and checking out Dracthyr, people spending 20 minutes in character creation, tinkering and finding the perfect one for them; who wouldn’t want that for every one of our player races? That should be the connection that everyone feels to their character, that truly feels like it’s theirs. Potentially, your character will literally not look like any other you’re going to meet no matter how much WoW you play.
I guess that’s a good news to know that they will not stop expanding the customization options.
The question now is “when and which race” so…
Let’s keep going to make Blizzard remember our wishes 