Stumbles in drunk “A HoOmAn called me a HiGh ElF…I aM NoTtA HiGh ElF!..” face plants
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Ill bet $1000 if a reddit thread is your evidence.
Customization is a very basic tool to get players immersed into their characters OP.
There’s character customization?
(Okay; I changed my warrior’s hair style back in BfA and keep trying to make my Night Elf Druid look less awful, but hardly play her and gave up. Oh, and that warrior now has one of those silly full head helms.)
Gladly. 
I don’t even know what race any1 I play is. I don’t even notice their mogs unless it’s something extra cool (not much in wow fits that honestly). This isn’t FF14 where the wardrobe is the real endgame(aside from fishing).
Because Barbie Dress Up has more character customization options. Rofl
You…can’t…see…Forsaken mogs that aren’t decaying rags because the bones no longer have to poke through them, and Forsaken hairstyles where all choices are no longer fright wigs?
I don’t either. I greatly enjoyed spending an hour or two in the barber shop with all my numerous characters but the truth is 90% of it gets covered up by armor and nobody really sees it.
I remember them saying it would be an ongoing project but don’t recall them ever definitively saying it would be during Shadowlands.
i’d just like to see more gear variations… everyone looks the same
You obviously haven’t played FFXIV. People spend countless hours fine-tuning their looks to be exactly how they like.
I have 5 characters on FFXIV that look like literally nobody else I’ve seen. And that’s my favorite thing about the game.
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I quoted two different interviews with Blizz devs in another thread where it was specifically stated.
How many people do you guys think FF14 stole from WoW simply because of it’s customization options? People joke about how the end game content of games like FF14 are centered around glamour (transmog) and they’re not kidding.
Your experience is skewed. There are none of these players on WoW because these players left WoW a looong time ago. If WoW had customization like FF14 - you would likely see hundreds of thousands of players that prefer WoW’s combat system and PvP/PvE features migrate over instantly.
Customization in an RPG is end game for quite a lot of people. WoW does such a bad job at it that a lot of people could not care less about it.
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I kinda feel the same way, I couldn’t care less. Once in a blue moon, I might transmog a piece of gear that’s particularly ugly (or if I get a transmog option that’s really cool-looking). Most of the time, I have no idea what my characters look like, unless I’m staring at them on the character selection screen.
However, I respect the fact that quite a few people are absolutely devoted to painstakingly designing their character’s appearance to match their vision for that character. So I can see where people may be disappointed, especially if they had expectations to that effect. I’d rather Blizzard spent development and art resources doing something for gameplay instead of aesthetics, but that’s just me.
As a side note, I know a guy who installed Skyrim and then spent 2 days installing mods and tweaking his character’s appearance before even starting the game, because that was so important to him (he doesn’t play WoW, but I can totally see him going absolutely all-in on customization, if he did).
Really we should receive more of these things more often anyways without feeling like we have to beg or wait years for it from blizzard. It’s a little stupid anyways. Like almost backwards. Blizzard should be throwing stuff at us to keep people hooked not relying on our addiction or hope to do the work for them. Lol
WoW as a game is pretty starved for customization relative to even other MMOs, let alone compared to offline games. Because of that every little bit that’s added is worth its weight in gold… anything that will make your character feel like it’s somewhat unique and truly belongs to you instead of being a clone of every other character out there is sought after.
It’s come a long way in the past couple of years but it still has a long way to go before the average player’s appetite is sated.
I can get where people are coming from. For me it doesn’t matter personally because I am never changing my characters appearances (besides a few jewelry options they added) Besides that all my characters look exactly like they did from the day they were made
(except this character cus it was sitting at level 7 for months and when I finally decided to play it I had to make a couple of changes lol.)
When all those new customizations came out all my characters stayed the same and they always will. I am not one for changing things up and not any amazing new customizations will ever change that for me.
But I understand why people are unhappy because more options means more creativity more stuff that they might like better on their characters.
I just want new gameplay content. It would be nice to see a SL Warfront in the near future, or some new epic battlegrounds.
I’m with you, OP, I spent like 5-10 minutes changing my appearance and moved on.
Effort: A serious attempt. That doesn’t mean they will/would make it happen. Times that there has been a definite, hands down “yes, we will” are few and far between. We repeatedly hear things like “it is on the table,” “We are looking into it” and “we know there is a problem.” The last two days were loaded with that but people still rushed to the forums saying that some of these same things will be fixed.
For these:
Number of teams and/or them being different teams can easily be considered a non-issue. It is a safe bet that all teams have their own budget (simple economics for running a business). The team that deals with the customization part may have overextended their budget or their needs could have been underestimated during the initial breakdown for the creation of SL. Funds are seldom moved around between departments since their use is a measure of the department’s productivity.
All of this is part of the initial overhead for the game development. Our subscriptions cover that as well as continuing overhead and yes, even profit for investors (whilom to Capitalism).
Before somebody pounces on it, letting 600 people go during record high quarters, or giving the CEO’s a new 80’ yacht for a bonus are not factors in this nor would they be.