Here’s an idea I’ve been kicking around for a few days, and I’d love to hear what folks think.
The BFA allied races were a reskin and a remodel. The DID were a reskin, and the KT were a remodeled human. Here’s my argument. Given that humans are one of the more popular races of the Alliance, wouldn’t it have been better to just reskin them, and remodel a race that was less popular? I personally have been dying for The Broken to be playable because Yoda, but I think that ship has sailed sadly. (Pun not intended but very welcome)
I don’t think there’s anything to be done about this now. But I would say that some consideration be made to the popularity of a race when choosing to reskin or remodel. If they’d remodeled either the Dreanei or the Worgen, my guess would be that it would have been more well received. Nothing wrong with the KTs. They make great plate classes and…sorry, correction there, they make great warriors. I’ve just been informed they can neither be DKs nor paladins! What a twist. Thankfully those fat giants can be rogues so…we lucked out there (said the Pandaren who were previously the most absurd rogue.)
At any rate, I wanted to say, for the next AR you haven’t yet confirmed, please give a remodel to a race where no one likes the existing model. I’d recommend Worgen. If you don’t know what I mean, just ask for a 110 trial of Male Worgen Rogue, turn it sideways and bask in the glory of the leather-clad worm that extends out from the Worgens shoulders.
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They did it so they never would have to implement body sliders.
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You posted this before I finished rereading the post. There’s no way you read the whole thing.
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Sorry about that, I guess I did jump the gun.
There are some appearances that look amazing. Druid bear mog looks pretty cool but some others looked they get a good belly stretch.
However I don’t believe they were a mistake as they are Alliances counterpart to the Zandalari.
I hope you get the AR you ask for in this thread.
Nope love my KT. This is how strongmen look. Stormwind humans are more akin to bodybuilders
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Our heritage armor should have come with a tire we could flip to compete with each other.
Yeah I don’t want to take anything from people. If you like what you got, then I’m happy for you. And as I mentioned, I really want a specific race that I’m unlikely to get - I just hope one day I get to say “This is what I was hoping for!” Until then, the struggle continues.
The only reason alliance got KT, was so the devs could do pre-work for the horde to get ogres.
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Aren’t KT still <1% for player numbers? I don’t understand how the devs could justify so much unique modeling and texture work for an allied race anyone with two brain cells could have predicted no one would play. The literally took the most work out of all ARs so far yet are the least played.
Such a massive waste of resources almost seems spiteful.
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Thats some next level tin foil hat thinking.
Initially I was thinking…nah. Must be joking.
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To each their own. I don’t think there’s necessarily a right way to deliver a new allied race. I personally vastly prefer the Kul Tiran models over the standard human ones. They always seemed kinda off to me.
I’m still mad that KT can’t choose the super skinny model.
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That makes you a pretty extreme outlier though. Humans are the most popular race on the Alliance while Kul Tirans are the least popular race in the entire game. Like, if they made a joke race that was literally just a wooden crate more people would probably play it for the novelty factor.
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Keep in mind you’re comparing a core race to an allied race, and allied races are both relatively new and locked behind reputation and questline requirements, so it wouldn’t be outlandish for the allied race to be technically “unpopular.” For instance; many have looked upon the Horde’s Zandalari troll race with envy, but actually, according to realmpop, there are more pandaren toons than there are Zandalari, even though the latter seem to get more fanfare on the forums and in public discourse.
I’ve also seen a lot of compliments given to the Thalassian models (e.g. Blood Elves, Void Elves) specifically because their proportions are better suited to a humanoid figure. The humans, in contrast, have gorilla-sized forearms, chests, and shoulders.
Humans are the most popular race on the Alliance, yes, but we also don’t know how much of that has to do with general satisfaction with their models. Keep in mind that their racials were top-tier on the Alliance for a long time, and even today their reputation boost is invaluable given how many rewards are rep-locked.
Given all that, it probably wouldn’t be incorrect to say that human players wouldn’t at least have entertained the idea of a different model, even if the Kul Tiran model isn’t necessarily what they wanted.
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I always thought making the KTs giants was dumb. There was nothing in any lore previously that suggested they would be.
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A. great name
B. I’m all for thin races but that look is the stuff of nightmares. Like thin-man level scary.
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Maybe that is why they didn’t? Also if they did reskin humans I can just imagine the whining about “lazy, low effort Alliance race”.
I think it should be quite obvious by now that the wishes and hopes of the playerbase amount to nothing to the developers. Who put in their own personal wants into the game.
Even to the effect of driving players away from the game.
To anyone on this forum, before BfA a top ten most requested races would’ve been able to be put together. Based on factors like:
How long has this race been in the game?
How much have the players interacted with this race?
Do we have sufficient lore reasons for this happening without breaking suspension of disbelief?
Has their been a history of interest from the playerbase regarding this race over various platforms?
The answers should’ve been right in front of them. Not only lorewise, but business wise, player retention wise.
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They are upright forsaken.