My irl face looks like garbage… Id like to change it.
I hear that a lot. “Classic was nothing like Vanilla”. It was for me. And I am not sure that what you say applies to the majority.
Sure, for someone who played WoW non stop for 15 years, Classic wouldn’t be the same, because he/she is burned out. But for those who stopped years ago (Wrath for me), Classic was the greatest experience since Vanilla, and quite close to Vanilla.
so blizz, when barbershop?
Well, you can book up a surgery for that you know.
People who ask for cosmetic changes, with the words “they don’t affect anything” completely fail to understand one thing. Besides raid mechanics, pvp, levelling and other “gameplay” things, there’s another extremely important thing that people play classic for - atmosphere. That charming atmosphere of harsh and hardcore fantasy, where there is danger all around and there is a constant struggle for survival.
And in retail this atmosphere is absolutely totally entirely destroyed, because of those stupid shiny mounts and pets, love rockets, toys, disco balls, selfie cameras, barbershops, transmogrification, etc., etc.
It’s hard to feel like a rugged, battle-hardened adventurer when there’s some bacchanalia of shiny butterflies, sparkles, and childish jokes going on all around you in the cities.
That’s why we’re so strongly against adding any alien crap to the classic, even one extra mount.
You might think barbershop is a small thing, but it’s exactly one of the things that got everything going wrong in retail. And if you start adding little things like that, more serious crap is bound to follow.
So changing my face in game have led to a bad retail in terms of gameplay, gigabrain here alanaska
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Man, what’s wrong with you?
For whom I wrote a whole essay about “it’s not just gameplay that matters”
Some people but their enjoyment above yours. For me, if it doesn’t impact the gameplay I don’t care.
I don’t even care if you have transmog, as long as your gear only looks like the cool set to you, to me and others it looks like what it is.
People are too quick to decide your fun hurts their experience, without any real or reasonable points. If someone else changing their hairstyle ruins your day then you need to seek professional help.
If you would just read Alanaska’s post above, there is a major point for you. You are just ignoring it.
Because it’s perception and it’s perceived impact totally unmeasurable.
Totally, tell me how you feel about turning things into pigs, turtles or sheep? How about using pet’s? This one was released in the TBC Digital Deluxe edition last time. It must be hella hard to be a rough and tough adventurer in Orgrimmar looking at those cute little pets.
It feels more like you’re desperately trying to find a reason for it to be bad, rather than it be bad and you explaining why.
It’s a slow and steady process, just like it was with retail. Of course when time goes by, there has to be new stuff. But retail is often too silly with items or events they implement.
Somekind of joke and fun on 1st April or something is fine, but they still kept the sense of danger and adventure back then.
For me, transmog, barber, overly tryhard funny events, too silly cosmetics did change the flair of the game. Of course it’s not the only thing, but it matters. Cosmetics matter.
How is a guy getting a hair cut unrealistic? How does someone getting a haircut impact immersion?
The point is we can turn players into pigs, we can walk around with our pet dragon in tow, we can fit a dragons head into our backpack.
But a haircut ruins your emersion and the authenticity and is a step too far?
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No, i personally think a barber is fine.
It’s the steady process of losing the immersion. The faster we implement all that stuff, the fast we lose it.
When there is a barber, people will ask for transmog next.
It is a fantasy / magical / medieval world, that is all fine and fits the theme. (Of course the “logic” to fit a horse in my backpack is not perfect, but sometimes you need to sacrifice realism for gameplay balance)
Ugh it’s not 2007 anymore… let’s do the 2008 financial crisis again, but in 2021!
Wahoo!
Totally normal, why not? As long as this sheep doesn’t have a pink bow and doesn’t dance on her hind legs. It’s a perfectly ordinary sheep like the ones that inhabit this world.
the same with the pets. The pets in the classics are perfectly normal because they are ordinary. They are just ordinary animals, an ordinary toad, an ordinary cat.
The problems started when stupid and completely inappropriate pets started appearing that didn’t fit in at all. Like a Lil Ragnaros, or Kelthuzad, or Murkidan. And toys, like a disco ball or a selfie camera. It doesn’t fit in this world at all.
Also, I don’t like Lurky either (even though it’s just a regular Murloc), but he was originally in the game, so there’s nothing I can do about it.
But adding something new like that is not allowed in any way.
Yes, the barbershop is a pretty minor thing, I agree. And if it was originally in the game my gaming experience wouldn’t have been ruined. But if we allow to add even one such insignificant thing - it will open a pandora’s box after which the game will be flooded with stupid shiny children’s pets, mounts, toys and other disgusting crap
Don’t want to destroy your dreams but the pandora’s box is already opened.
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People have different hair styles that they selected when they created their char, you’re unlikely to ever know if they changed it and even if you did, it’s hardly immersion breaking for someone to change thier hair style.
I don’t understand why y’all so mad about something as silly as a haircut.
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We already explained it to you:
BUT
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Sure but make it so you have to buy an item, like a brush costing 20Euro’s in the shop for like 3 uses of changing your hair style.
Pandora’s box has been opened already lol, you have boosts, you have new mounts that clearly suggest that this isnt 2008 anymore, you have lvl 58 boosts(which will lead to specific classes being massivly boosted due to tbc balance being non existant), you have completly diffrent community thats boosting in dungeons instead of lvling properly, you have everyone either min maxing or trying to, you have completly diffrent arena seasons due to pvp changes, how is letting players enjoy their game and their charaters more by changing their hair or gender going to ruin anyones experience? No changes doesnt exist anymore not even in classic and certanly not in tbc, so let players change their appearence and enjoy the game
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