feelsbadman, there are alot of voices raising up after the Q&A so we’ll see if this will help boost the idea of giving some love to nightborne or any allied race
now we can create purple french asmongold!
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They LITERALLY told us that they would focus on Allied Races after the initial races got updated in 9.0.
Now they’re backtracking and saying there’s no customization coming for the rest of Shadowlands.
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In their defense, at least for males, FFXIV has terrible hair style choices compared to WoW.
Overall, way better customization, but WoW does beat them on hairstyles, at least for males.
Nightborne will have to wait 10 years to have something, just like worgen and pandarens.
Bro what do you think this is, an RPG? Sorry only blizz can call it an RPG when it wants to force “covenants” as a “meaningful choice lol RPG hurdurdhurhdur”.
The level of disparity between the Nightborne and core races like Pandaren and Worgen is still not even comparable. With the Nightborne, the minimum baseline in all aspects of the race hasn’t even been established.
Also, the push for improvements to the Nightborne model, and player models in general, will inevitably draw the developer’s focus to make changes to the other races. This attitude of, “I suffered under the developer’s inaction for 10 years, so get in line with the rest of us,” isn’t going to cut it.
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I did not say that. I said that because of Blizzard’s commitment and concern for Nightbornes, they will have to wait as long as worgen and pandarens (10 years old) for them to have any attention on this issue.
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At least they’ve got options. Lightforged have six hairstyles.
Nah not at all. Customisation options for the most part were very welcome.
Diablo mobile was like ‘uhh… what… is this???’
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I mean, Blizzard openly acknowledged they made a mistake with female worgen less than a year after introducing them.
They’ve never once acknowledged Nightborne are lacking anything or that they are anything but proud of them.
My favorite part is if you disregard the new skin tones Void Elves got, they have just as few customization options as Nightborne.
And before you say “AT LEAST YOU GOT SOMETHING,” Please, if you can sit there and tell me with a straight face you’d be happy with some more skin tones for NIghtborne and nothing else, you are straight up lying. You’d be saying it’s not enough.
But you want it to be enough for Void Elves.
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Nightbornes are the only breed that is in a more disappointing state than worgen. Really less than me.
I recognize this, and I have seen countless threads of people asking for it to receive attention.
But Blizzard, like you said, seems happy to give a model that doesn’t even look like what we see NPCs use in Suramar.
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The problem is shenanigans like this have happened with other things too. Mountains of feedback have often been ignored. The issue is this time they picked something that not only a subsect of players are good with, or want. They picked character customization, which has effected everyone, and now the backlash is real.
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The amount of work required to make edits is so small. Especially when it is just skin edits. A half decent artist could make a dozen new skins in an afternoon. Let’s just say they are overly anal about perfection and cut that down to 2 per day. How many could they get done with just one guy working for a month? Now consider how many people work for Blizzard.
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Every hairstyle has to be manually adjusted for every helm that doesn’t just cover the hair. And even then we still get clipping issues.
Skin Color, Eye Color, and Hair Color are easy to add, but new hairstyles are not as easy as “make it and voila” they’ve told us many times they manually have to adjust every single helm model on every hair they make.
Likewise, things like Earrings and Jewelry have the same issue, to avoid clipping issues they have to check every one.
Void elves got 14 skin tones that blood elves use and new eye colors. That made them look like high elves. And dk blood elf skin tones. They already had 6 skin tones to start and a bunch of hairstyles to choose from. So 20-23 total skin tones
The nightborne did not get any night elf skin tones. No new eye colors. Just a bald option and a female asymetric jewlery option. Nightborne and other allied races were promised to get more customization since there late Legion release. Now they say no one is getting more customization in shadowlands. Nightborne could have gotten similar night elf skin tones or something like undead night elf customization to compare to the high elf stuff at least.
As of now lightforged, nightvorne and highmoumtain have lacking options.
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My man!*
*or your preferred gender
Depends on the race and new hairstyles are added every content patch at least. The developers also get it that players like their characters looking awesome hence a lot of effort being put in to emotes, cosmetic items, spell/attack animations and the like.
It tends to go down well with the players. It’s almost like listening to what the players want is better than telling them what they want.
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And yet it still took them an entire decade to actually fix anything.
Not saying you are wrong, just that there is an awful big gap between owning up to a problem and actually putting the work in to make it right. Especially when it comes to modern day Blizzard.
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Issue with this is that every part of the community thinks they are “the” community.
While partially true, this case is really a no-brainer. I doubt many people are walking around going “Man, I wish I had LESS options to determine my character’s appearance”.
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