Latest news in how the best wardrobe system in modern gaming is, yet again, wasted on this game:
Its not exactly news that the wow tmog system is actually good, at least in the technical sense. It allows for inspecting, making sets, combining individual items to make your own look, etc.
That being said, some of the other aspects of character customization and its limitations are laughably disconnected from what players (that arent just me) have been asking for for years.
- how is it not the most obivious thing to let death knights use the red eyes?
- keep in mind that the gold eyes, blue eyes, black eyes, werent exactly added without needless friction either.
- still no new druid forms obiviously, the spirit wolf variants arent exactly great either
- instead of, idk, lets say, bears or eagles, we got some… hyper-glowy stone wolf? thats not a spirit, its a christmas decoration.
- capes/shoulders still using the same rig from 2004, and if they havent fixed it in almost 20 years, they wont fix it.
- You’ve seen the bfa concept art, so have I. How is it, that its still not possible for a cape to go over the shoulders?
- no bendy armor pieces ofc, too complicated to use the blender weight brush equivalent on a piece of fur headwear.
- class-race limitations that will never actually have a questline associated with them whenever they decide to allow you to be a paladin on a worgen, even though the reason that was given in a recent interview about it the answer for not allowing these classes for everyone is because of lore.
- mog limitations between armor types??!!??
- forgot what else i was supposed to rant about, it was probably just as seemingly pointless.
In summary:
- Muh engine problems, with the engine they literally own and can develop.
- Muh lore implications, players cant be trusted with anything because theyll ruin our perfect universe with three different layers of supposed “infinitely ancient beings beyond mortal comprehension, gnomes, and party hats”!, cant have draenei warlocks, or god forbid, a rogue using a pair of mail gauntlets for their mog.
If they are too incompetent to fix red eyes before my game time runs out then see you all in pre-patch at the earliest. [rant over]