Not that often but that does not mean they have to let them keep the sausage shaped face. There are cutscenes where you get to see your character so why not fix it.
And honestly I don’t suspect this was something difficult to do, the nb elves however require a serious overhaul which is, at least more difficult.
TBH at a glance belf faces (both male and female) are barely recognisable anyway, you have to literally be right up in a Belf’s face to see any differences between their faces outside of maybe 1-2 exaggeratedly different ones. Females are worse for this than males, they all look nearly identical in pretty much every format in game outside of being zoomed up very close.
And yet they get like 16+ facial expression options? What? Poor tauren with their 4, and yet those 4 are more visible at a glance than the belf options haha.
I don’t think Numbers matter. Or even different facial expressions.
Take the Troll female for example. They have what? 9 faces? All of them are different but ONLY 1 is used by 90% of the Troll female players. The “pretty” face
Troll females have 6 faces. And TBF 3 of them look very similar save number of creases on the forehead, then there is “pretty”, “a bit less pretty, yet angry” and “a bit frowny” and the rest look the same kind of “i’m mad at you”.
In this case though it’s player limitations possibly arising out of a limited pool, with belf it wouldn’t matter if someone chooses face 17, 3 or 6 to me because at a glance i can’t see any difference in them whatsoever. It just seems like wasted effort to me. Either make the faces actually different from each other in a way that is noticable or reduce them down.
It might just be me, but i think having an entire plethora of facial options merely to capture a slight raise in one’s smirk and that’s it, or maybe to have the sharpness of one’s cheeks slightly blunted, when other races have 4 options or so in total, is outrageous.