Quote Originally Posted by cutestfox View Post
There is no evidence to suggest that 7.0 was animated with the old models, there is no evidence that they had to redo an entire cutscene to slap an updated expression on it- bringing shareholders into the argument to make it sound more reasonable is just moving into fanfiction tier. This entire reasoning is nothing but baseless speculation for an excuse

It's patch 7.0, these improved expressions promised in 7.0 are not here. That's all there is to it
The fact that they didn't take advantage of new updated models, a selling point of the entire expansion, is pretty big evidence that they models weren't finished in time to actually use them. We can also look back to all the problems people had during the first benchmark just a few months ago, which would've been well after the point that 99.9% of the work for the expansion was done, for more evidence that they weren't ready. And if you actually think that money isn't a motivating factor in every decision SE makes about the game, I have to conclude that you don't know how corporations work.