Quote Originally Posted by twobear View Post
...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...
I understand where your anxiety is coming from, and I think it's as valid as anyone else's. I just ask that you stop trying to bring others down in your framing. And anyway, I do agree, all the changes and bugs are little things. It's just that there's so many of those little things--some appearing intentional and some appearing not so--that it feels like so much altogether; at least from the perspective of an individual. It does make me worry for the larger state of the expansion.

Again, though, just to throw out my two cents: this close to release I really don't think you have to worry about them throwing it out. They definitely aren't going to when the game is already being sold with new spec requirements and nobody has any faults with the environments. More than anything, though, your response only makes me more strongly feel that we really need to demand for more clear communication from the team. It is so rare they respond to anything directly anymore; you just have to wait and see. It feels ridiculous when we don't have any precedent for something this large.

I don't like guessing what they're going to do. It sounds like you don't either. Are they just going to ship the characters out as is, which, even ignoring the facial feature changes, includes many objective, unprofessional looking errors for several races? Will they just use the heads from NA Fanfest instead and call it a day? I remember in the first 10-year-anniversary roadmap stream, they said they'd be showing us the character graphical improvements every step of the way, but it turns out that only meant a whopping 3 times?

Environment, gear, etc, are all fine. Even a lot of the lighting making some characters uncanny as hell just has to do with the way character mapping interacts with the light. Hrothgar interact with it way more nicely than any of the new human-shaped head models. But them not letting any of us know why things are like this is only going to continue making people worry about the worst possible conclusions on both sides.