If Blizz would allow the more modern graphics in Classic, I’d play it.
I cannot help but think the nostalgia of Classic is due to the gameplay, NOT from people wanting to see old dated graphics.
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I like classic graphics you may not like it but this is what peak preformance looks like
Don’t get me wrong I like my retail character and how he looks
It’s just that level of graphics don’t really fit in classic.
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i’m indifferent to the graphics. Some of the best games i’ve ever played look like A$$. Look at Rimworld xD
I do miss SOME modern conveniences like mount/pet/tabard tabs and achievements. but beyond that i don’t really feel like the games lacking much
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I’m fine with the graphics like they are. This isn’t very relevant to why I play games personally.
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How come different games can’t be different?
I play retail and classic and don’t whine about Retails worse animations to the Retail forums.
I play classic and don’t whine about classics arguably worse tiles set for ground textures.
Both games have things I like and that they do better than the other, but those things are a matter of taste and who’s to say what is truly better when it’s only opinion? I’m sure someone could make a computer program to measure the games artistic value, but that would be a completely failure because resolution and detail aren’t necessary the definition of quality, or the thing that makes an art work great.
It’s hard for me to imagine how anyone likes the look of Retail. Classic looks so much better.
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Naw.
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It’s got some stuff I really think is very good.
You have an account, now objectively load up both games and look at things like how good the tiles used in the streets of storm wind and little improvements like that and some of the sky boxes the improved detail on buildings and windows and trims and stuff like that.
I tend to focus more on characters, and I just hate pretty much every change to the models. Every running animation is stupidly bouncy. The new facial features, new postures, new everything is ridiculously cartoony. WoW was always a little cartoony, but the style use to be gritty. Now it’s Disney.
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I completely agree with you, was only pointing out that some of the retail stuff is good too. Yeah those character models and animations are unpleasant to look at.
Also rather preference the Vanilla way character models are lit and the more simplistic animations ( most not all) in classic because it’s much easier to see. Retails lighting is technically better by a lot, but the side effects of that is that it can be hard to see enemy players in battle due to the lighting method. This kinda forces you in retail to install UI mods to see enemies casting (not actually needed in classic) to detect locations and that if they are casting to counter / kick or whatever.
The way the faces are animated in retail… embarrassment is the best thing I can say, I wouldn’t want my name on that.
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My friend, have you ever watched the silhouette of a female troll running toward you? Or a female night elf with that weird arm flail animation? Or how about the . . .
Classic animations look wonky on a lot of our races. The updates are not that bad, and the animation blending is great.
But that is my opinion, which is not more important than yours. Just another. 
Just look at my marvelous beard!! Look I tell you!!! 
Granted the Dwarf rework was one of the best
Yeah the dwarf beards are really good, it’s one of those things about retail they really did fix up, I was pointing above stuff like sky boxes and tiles for things like the the bricks in SW city or any little detail stuff like window trims.
zoom zoom zooooooom
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Heh, dwarves are a race I can’t play because of their new run animation. Every time I run with one all that goes through my mind is ‘boing, boing, boing!’. And it sucks because I love the race.
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The “bouncy” panda like animation components added to most of the retail stuff is a gripe I got too. The casting animations are hit and miss, some of the retail stuff is good other things are just horrible. Like for example the old human casting animations are stellar, the new ones are horrible. New human running animations are shockingly bad, and I’m not saying the Vanilla human unarmed running animations are good either because they were bad by 1999 standards, but by 2004 they looked super crappy, and in WoD with the updates models blizzard managed to make them worse, a feat of ineptitude that I didn’t know could exist.
Retail undead animations are also worse than Vanilla, but with that said the Vanilla undead especially the male undead are insanely good (movement animations)
Both humans and undead attack and casting animations in Classic are just excellent, same can be said for many of the other races.
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I dont see how a toggle would affect anyone honestly. I dont care either way.
Retail look more cartoony than Classic .
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Imagine not playing an MMO based on a small difference in graphical quality
Oh no, please don’t go Adandas lol
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I like the graphics. But I can see where you are coming from. I LOVE Ultima Online but the primitive 2d graphics keep me from playing it.
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