No New Customizations is the "Don't you guys have phones" of 2021

[Magnificent-wyrmrest-accord]

maybe next blizzcon we will get screenshots of patch 9.2 like 9.1 this year

[Blimpo-thunderhorn (Blimpo)]

If the keep their current pace… we will be lucky to get screenshots.

[Cow-sargeras]

https://i.imgur.com/pzc6G5D.png
So very very important to them, that they couldn’t help but scrap the project for the rest of the expansion. They could have very easily said “No new customization until 9.2” in order to have more time to work on a big batch of customizations or something farther down the line this expansion like 9.2.5, but they straight up said no more this expansion. Hopefully they also lied about no new customizations and decide they will give the players more options in 9.2.

[Blimpo-thunderhorn (Blimpo)]

Customizations are coming in the future, they have all hands working on content, as it should be.

[Cow-sargeras]

You could easily hire 2-3 more people to full focus on customization options, meanwhile the art team isn’t really handling any heavy duty job right now as we’ve seen in the 9.1 preview.

All the systems, class balance, technical stuff is well taken care of, it’s just the art team that seems to be lacking right now, especially when you realize that a warcraft mobile game has been confirmed and coming in the future. So could be the case that they are actually pulling people from the wow art team to work on the warcraft mobile game.

[Luup-skullcrusher]

@Blimpo-thunderhorn

Customizations are coming in the future, they have all hands working on content, as it should be.

It takes months to make a new raid.
It takes 5 mins in blender to do a race hair swap.

This is just bad management.

The new raid is also recycling maw / torghast assets and they’re not even making a new tier, just using the already created legendary sets.

[Cow-sargeras]

Let’s also not forget, that they aren’t even working on new armor at all really aside from the 4 covenant specific transmogs in 9.1.

The raid AND pvp transmog in 9.1 is literally just a recolor of the legendary pieces we have in game right now. So that’s even less work that the art team is doing right now.

[Blimpo-thunderhorn (Blimpo)]

@Luup-skullcrusher

It takes 5 mins in blender to do a race hair swap.

Yes, management is knows it only takes 5 minutes but they want to actively seek to disappoint the community; that is what you think is happening here. (Or… may it is actually more difficult than a someone who has never done the job thinks it takes).

[Pedrojose-cenarion-circle]

@Kerrah-silver-hand

@Luup-skullcrusher

It’s been shown that adding hairstyles takes minutes. MINUTES. by the art department.

It took my wife less than half an hour to fit a Kul Tiran hairstyle on a Pandaren female, map the hair to the Pandaren hair texture, and weight paint it to move with the model. And she has only a base knowledge of Blender (the famous donut tutorial and a few youtube tutorials on importing and cleaning up WoW models). I imagine someone who actually knew what they were doing could do it in half the time, or less.

And that loose bun with the curls coming down along the cheeks is adorable on pandas, btw.

@Zanthora-ragnaros

As someone who is also using blender I also did some basic changes to the model few years ago which also took minutes.

Such as eye-color change.

I really don’t get it - all they need is to task ONE person to do the job, why is it such a problem?
One Person to work on customization and gradually add more through the patches. It will make community eager to see what’s new coming for them each patch.

I think that it can be deducted that the real answer is they don’t care. There’s no upcoming expac for them to tack on comestics as a selling point so meh.

[Zanthora-ragnaros]

Or maybe their crew is super small and they really need to priotize content?

[Luup-skullcrusher]

@Blimpo-thunderhorn

(Or… may it is actually more difficult than a someone who has never done the job thinks it takes).

Go up in the thread. multiple people have shown it takes literally five minutes
I have an arts degree. I have used these programs. It is not hard.

The biggest roadblock is likely a chain of flaming-hoop management approval and “keeping the races unique” or whatever.

It’s not the actual work. That takes five minutes.

[Pedrojose-cenarion-circle]

Unless they have 10 people I don’t see how that’s possible. You hit the nail on the head it’d only take one person to do a huge amount of customization assets in a fairly short time.

The person(s) in charge of the art team doesn’t care or put any priority on making more.

[Cow-sargeras]

@Blimpo-thunderhorn

it only takes 5 minutes

Funnily enough, it takes 1-5 minutes to create new hair styles, and then from there once you get the textures all set up for it, it takes no time at all to color swap em, and thus, you just came up with a new hair style along with all it’s color options in a span of less than 10 minutes.

This reddit post goes in to detail about that and also has some awesome looking custom options to go with it that a lot of people have been requesting.

r/wow - Having given a large amount of feedback on player customisation to be...

Even I’ve made myself some tailed worgens on blender myself after I figured out how it worked in like 20-30 minutes. Someone way more experienced than me who’s only had like a week or so to learn the program can do way more stuff in a very short span, especially a small group dedicated to making customization options.

[Pedrojose-cenarion-circle]

@Luup-skullcrusher

The biggest roadblock is likely a chain of flaming-hoop management approval

that could be too. and if one of those people managing has no interest the idea is dead in the water

[Cow-sargeras]

Also, let’s not forget, they specifically said they want to focus on Allied races AFTER they finish with the core races. Worgens,blood elves, undeads, taurens faces, and many other still have a lot of work that needs done. So when do those allied races come in, in the expansion after the next one? What if they add in more options to races that already have a huge amount like humans and orcs. Do they have to spend even more time to have the other core races to catch up with the ones with the most options?
At this rate, Allied Races are never going to get any new options.

[Siersha-proudmoore]

I guess i got lucky that my dorf got eye color and good long hair. I feel bad for the others who got nothing or less.

[Cow-sargeras]

For the weirdos that say “they are done, we don’t need new options”, check this image out. Worgens got enough they day… lmao

https://i.imgur.com/bUPqUSA.png

[Khileeha-sargeras (Khileeha)]

With all the time they don’t have for customizations and fulfilling promises…isn’t it about time they flopped out a completely shameless store mount?

[Pedrojose-cenarion-circle]

lol yeah see what I mean?

they cant make $$$ off customization options unless its an expac feature so they dont bother

[Tenrigore-argent-dawn]

Said this before, I am not the least bit shocked they did this. WoD flying kind of started the same way, was told it would come later, then they delayed, and eventually made the announcement, and the community backlash made them reverse course.