Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, «What are you playing this week?» — otherwise known as WRUP. Join us to see what we’re up to in and out of game, and catch us in the comments to let us know what you’re playing, too!
This past week, someone filed a complaint on the official forums about the WoW character models — specifically the Orc — not being up to Cataclysm standards. Ultimately, blue poster Nethaera responded to the thread:
orc needs (model) buffed
We often see people request for model updates. This is something we’d definitely like to do at some point in time, but time is a very limited commodity for our art team. We also have to be very careful about what it means to «update» a model. We’ve made changes in the past to various characters and had some people be a bit upset that it was changed on them as they had made very specific choices about the look of their character. We try to be as sensitive as possible about these types of things.
Who the heck are these people who would riot in the streets if they changed the original WoW character models? I mean, nostalgia is one thing, but have you ever looked at your character’s hands? Or a Human male’s face? Yikes.
This week, our WRUP is all about in-game models. In addition to the usual What are you playing? question, I asked our columnists: What in-game model would you most like to see retired and why?Continue reading WRUP: Why the ugly face?Filed under: WoW Insider BusinessWRUP: Why the ugly face? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, just at the start of the weekend, we catch up with the WoW Insider staff and ask them, «What are you playing this week?» — otherwise known as WRUP. Join us to see what we’re up to in and out of game, and catch us in the comments to let us know what you’re playing, too!
This past week, someone filed a complaint on the official forums about the WoW character models — specifically the Orc — not being up to Cataclysm standards. Ultimately, blue poster Nethaera responded to the thread:
orc needs (model) buffed
We often see people request for model updates. This is something we’d definitely like to do at some point in time, but time is a very limited commodity for our art team. We also have to be very careful about what it means to «update» a model. We’ve made changes in the past to various characters and had some people be a bit upset that it was changed on them as they had made very specific choices about the look of their character. We try to be as sensitive as possible about these types of things.
Who the heck are these people who would riot in the streets if they changed the original WoW character models? I mean, nostalgia is one thing, but have you ever looked at your character’s hands? Or a Human male’s face? Yikes.
This week, our WRUP is all about in-game models. In addition to the usual What are you playing? question, I asked our columnists: What in-game model would you most like to see retired and why?Continue reading WRUP: Why the ugly face?Filed under: WoW Insider BusinessWRUP: Why the ugly face? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
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