I’m pretty sure it mostly has to do with the work load. They’ve said some classes require little to add new races to them while others require a huge amount of development like druid forms, totems, special mounts, etc.
They’ve said they are working on it but that obviously some are going to be later on down the line because of that.
If that’s not fast enough, you are well within your right to unsub for it.
Yes, I agree, but that might not be what Blizzard wants to do.
Maybe they could at least start releasing the planned content without a million bugs? People might at least be a little happy with that if the story is gonna be that they’re focused on the already planned stuff and can’t squeeze in more combos.
People will never be happy. lol
Side note: I’m not even going to attempt to play tomorrow.
The interview reads more like the typical “I’m not allowed to talk about it” than anything else.
I strongly suspect there’s a team actively working in the race/class combos right now. They just aren’t going to release any until they have it all done for a class.
Imagine the outrage if they decided to release “Paladins for All” in 11.0, but Vulpera and Night Elves weren’t done yet and had to wait until 12.0 instead.
Ion “Has Cost Us”:
“Awe man… if we make druids and paladins available for other races… We’ll have to do ACTUAL WORK around here for a day or two angry lawyer noises I HATE WORKING for my multi-million dollar per year contract! GOSH DANGIT! Why do these annoying CUSTOMERS demand we FOLLOW THROUGH on our promises…”
Microsoft overlord: “You said you would… over a decade ago…”
Ion “Has Cost Us”: “Yeah… but… WOOO000ooo000OOoork…”
It’s likely more that the fact if they delay an expansion to bring out more race/class combinations that players will throw an even larger fit.
Touch grass friend
I hope they’re keeping secrets from us and will surprise us
I think dracthyr paladins would be the best thing ever.
I hate this excuse the most. I quit my human paladin when they did this update because it removed all my cool casting animations in exchange for a stupid book for a spell i rarely use.
This is a self inflicted problem and not a crippling excuse.
Yup, Shaman are both the lowest hanging fruit and make sense for the current story arc imo.
Obviously, Druids are going to be the last bastion of race exclusivity for a while by sheer volume of additional forms to concept and model.
What he said was it takes a lot of work to do that and there are more important things to address in war within
my biggest issue with them not wanting new paladin classes just being on lack of custom mounts is lame to me. mainly because I remember when Draenei first got paladins and didn’t have custom mounts and it was fine, I’d rather there be more paladin class choices NOW with them using the blood elf/human mounts/mount animations and to give them unique ones down the road than to just forever never make more classes able to be paladins.
It wasn’t fine. People hated it and constantly complained about it. Then complained when other races got racial Pally mounts before they did.
But it’s still more than mounts that holds it all back.
maybe I’m the minority but I hate the dreanei mounts and still use the human pally mounts for my dwarf, dreanei, and lightforge paladins. Aside from mounts what else is preventing them from adding more paladin classes, it’s not like the paladin animations are unique as many of them are similar to warrior animations of the same race
It’s literally a D&D thing ???
Also there’s the ‘Delver of the Vaults’ title.
You know… Dungeon Delves?
Huh?
Which is a funny problem to have with a multi-million dollar corporation, honestly.
Funny enough all the animations are there, theres are no unique ones for paladins. Just use that toy you can change into any race with and all the animations basically looks/functions the same. Its purely a mount thing, and honestly i wished that button was deleted and just replaced with sprint, cause thats what it literally is. Its funny people run into their own jungle gym about animations when clearly that has never been the case.
It’s definitely a back burner project.
They don’t seem to prioritize it
Like dance studio ect.
“If we don’t comment on it maybe they will forget we said it’s coming”