The graphics are a part of why I enjoy wow. 
it’s supposed to be this way.
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You would gain more traction sharing these frustrations with blizzard on their Twitter.
Unfortunately these days General discussion seems to be a way to share thoughts and feelings with players but not blizzard I don’t think they come here anymore and with some of the threads I’ve read lately who can blame them
Tauren*
FTFY
Tho I do agree with this. They should touch up on our characters a lot more than they do. Especially hairstyles. Some are hilariously bad.
we all read it as curvy minotaur. there is no light here.
Sounds like you might be happier with another game.
Just curious, what MMO, by comparison, looks newer and fresher?
everthing is too thick and bulky.
was cute at some point but got old. i guess it’s to go with the wc3 heroes aesthetic or something.
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The character models, cosmetics are fine. The scaling of objects, environment in relation to character size could be better
Cartoony artstyles will always age better than realism.
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It also lacks simplicity and basic coloration.
It is unfortunate that they chose not to make World of Warcraft look like …Warcraft.
I mean, I think the game has gone in way too cartoony of a direction (Compare datamined Paladin Chargers to the Vanila versions), but in WotLK they moved CLOSER to realism. Compare Northrend questing gear to BC’s.
I feel the opposite. I play since MoP and I consider 99% of mounts and sets pre-Legion unusable.
it doesn’t have to be ultra realistic to have higher texture quality tho
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I think WoW’s graphical fidelity is pretty decent
It’s just the overly cartoony artstyle that started in WoD that rubs me the wrong way
Vanilla graphics were pretty “vague”, it allowed players to project whatever they wanted to “fill in the gaps”.
When WoW got more detailed, Blizzard’s artists explicitly fill in those gaps and they might not match what players had in mind.
“Drawn on” has been noticeable since launch. It’s been one of the hardest things for me to overcome.
I like how a lot of it looks, but man we need to fix some of the character models.
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You know I found hallowfall to look pretty good pushed 12gb/16gb vram.
Besides the starting experience and story incoherency, the graphic disparity with other games is one of the big reasons new players and especially next gen ones don’t pick up WoW and start it or do and drop it. No I don’t mean the cartoon aesthetic, I mean the actual graphics of most of the game up to BFA, mainly EK, Kalimdor, etc. Even our trees look like something out of Paper Mario.