Can blizzard explain this? Do they want to?
I"m all for the new customization and new characters… but this feels weird considering the original character didn’t have the darker options even. He wasn’t updated, he was completely changed.
Just seems weird, and this is about retconing, not about having any problems whatsoever with new or progressive stuff in the game. Thoughts?
Picture of Steven Lohan: ibb. co/9V9Rrjk
innkeeping changes man
Old one retired and new guy took over.
Just like in the A-Team… they’re all Lynch.
Didn’t Blizzard make a point that named NPC’s wouldn’t be changed? That’s a pretty radical change for Steven Lohan. I think the new customizations are great, and it’s wonderful seeing new characters like the Garrick family. But uh - people we’ve known for 15 years suddenly changing skin tones and hair colors and faces entirely? It’s a bit jarring.
I feel the same way… but people have been shutting down my concerns… calling my racist… I used to hang out in the Blue Recluse all the time and it’s just weird as f sometimes they did this to a named guy who’s been in game since classic.
Big deal. He isn’t an important character. I don’t even know which inn he is at, nor do I care either.
A lot of npcs are like this. While I personally don’t like it, as I interpret it as forced diversity (which I generally dislike), it is perhaps the most benign of it’s kind so it’s hard to really get upset about.
Well I did… he was my boi… still is… but he’s a different man lol… just seems tokenism and ungenuine to the actualy changes and progression that’s needed. Like characters in exile’s reach story line are good. But ya I care lol
It was a lazy implementation. I would of preferred if they introduced new characters to the city and gave them a bit of their own flavor/background. But it is what it is at this point.
They forgot the #1 rule when it comes to doppelgangers, you always switch the first letters of the first and last name.
Blizzard said these new customizations to include diversity were long over due and meant to finally have in game what they always envisioned anyways hence the long overdue wording. I also believe they said they would update NPCs as they saw fit. An Inkeeper is hardly a big deal and fits in with both the long over due changes and the world building to reflect those over due changes.
Well NPCs have access to Barbershops too.
I’ve been necrotic, cyanotic, pasty white, and now ebony.
The NPC’s can go to the magic Barbershop and get a whole new them just like the PC’s can!
Ah yes accursed technology of 2004 simply had no way to make a dark skinned npcs, but finally they can bring us what they always invisioned, thank god.
It’s like Jake from State Farm.
They also said it was an oversight on their end which is why they also used the term long over due. So they acknowledge their part and have since rectified.
yep it took 16 years of technological progress to finally implement “what they always invisioned”.
Pretty sure there was at least a few more darker options available back then. So if they had wanted or “envisioned” that before… they could have establised it… back then.
Which is why they admitted it was an oversight on their part? Wow glad we got that out of the way for the 3rd time in a row.