Quote Originally Posted by Doopliss View Post
I suspect that this feeling is the main reason there are many people butting heads on this matter. Again, as someone who admittedly doesn't want these character changes at all, I fully believe, realistically, they're going to push out this update on time in one way or another. I don't believe a rollback is happening.

Instead I'd just like to reiterate on a point I attempted to make earlier: I just ask that you try to look at things with empathy. From your icon, I think your Seawolf is very handsome, and I don't doubt the update makes him look even cooler.

However, I just ask that you consider there are some people who had that same level of excitement as you do now suddenly stripped away in place of fear, because their characters weren't as lucky. They're small things, but would it not make the anticipation even a little worse for you if his smile caused his brow bone to clip into his eyes? Or if his hair suddenly had more gaps in it? Or if it now felt like he was forced to wear deep lipstick and eyeliner no matter what you do?
The thing is, I absolutely want things to be fixed; at the very least, I don't play any of these races, so why wouldn't I. But we now seem to be moving into an even more dramatic phase where the entire thing should be abandoned or started from scratch because of very minor changes that hopefully can be fixed. Or the frankly disingenous argument that you can find particular lighting angles where the models don't look amazing (disingenuous considering how easy it is to find bad lighting environments currently).

Not that it's especially relevant but I think my own character has received bigger changes from the update than most of the characters getting posted. They've really changed the roughness of Roegadyn skin, and the way the lips look now makes his mouth a little wider than before. I'll probably swap to one of the slightly smaller mouths. I might even change the skin tone slightly because of the way it looks under the new light. But I don't want those taken away and replaced with a more conservative update across the board, as some people now seem to be suggesting. Yes, to a certain extent there is a 'reinterpretation' of the character going on, but I don't see how you can avoid that when you're doing a major visual overhaul. It's still my character just because he no longer has skin like a pumice stone.

Basically I hope that the developers are able to see that the things that are needed are minor changes and don't abandon what I think is by and large very good work.