Hearing we won’t get customization was like a gut-punch. They say SL is all about choice, where is my choice when it comes to my characters? Where is my Nightborne choice? Where is my choice to RP a void elf as a high elf with high elf hair colors and more styles?
Every day more and more I recognize how abusive my relationship with this game and Blizzard is as an RPer. They give little, tantalize with crumbs, then smirk at us that we should be grateful for those while continuing to keep the FOMO pve treadmill going with plenty of grinding and time-gating for whatever the flavor of borrowed power is this expac. They introduce broken systems then fix them the last major patch of the expac.
At this point nostalgia for older eras like TBC is probably the only thing that’s going to keep sub numbers afloat. They aren’t innovating in the ways players want to keep people on retail and it’s showing. Save your game Blizz, please.
LOL, this is absolutely ridiculous, they even said they were going to be adding more customization throughout the entire expac, this was SUPPOSED to be the character customization expac since they axed the class/races being added.
Absolutely unsurprised by blizzard because it’s not like anyone plays races or this game for RP or looking good when races like worgen goblins gnomes and anything that wasn’t a human orc or nelf got shafted for customization
That’s because new customization options are too much fun. /jk
Also, I’m super worried that they might seriously consider Worgen to be on par with Orcs, Night Elves, and Tauren with customization options because of their human form customization that you literally almost never see.
I don’t ever remember them saying they would add AR customization in SL. Just saying.
I believe the official answer was :
For the initial release of Shadowlands, the focus is on the original races. Character customizations is an ongoing project and they’re never completely done.
Nightborne, Kul’tiran and Light Forged Draenei. It’s been awhile since I made a NB, but I think they have the same small number of options as the other two. Probably fewer, actually. Still, all 3 have super boring options and in the end they all look the same.
Void Elves suffered from this too until they got a couple eye colors and skin tones. They still have that problem with their hair colors though. I’m not even referring to blondes and stuff, just that the ones they have all look very similar to each other. Even their red hair has purple in it.
It’s insane that yesterday they almost implied that players haven’t been as vocal about what they want to be added (“keep sending in your suggestions!”) as if there aren’t a dozen threads each with at least a thousand replies and thousands of views and likes in support.
Meanwhile here I am, a worgen dk, with only fur color as my new option. That’s it, that’s all I get. Just fur color options. Sure worgens got eyes too, but those are simply recolors of things we already have. Worgens got absolutely zero new unique things. We’re just sitting here left in the dust, same as male blood elves who didn’t get much of anything. Don’t even get me started on Allied races.
They spend so much effort working on rolling out assorted battle pets and mounts and whatever else, but they can’t have a team of a few people doing even the simple thing of messing around with hair styles or simply making some recolors each patch.
Remember when Blizzard actually cared about the Community that made them who they are today folks? Well they shot themselves in a foot after a boring Q&A that didn’t bring much other than empty promises and excuses.