Quote Originally Posted by Len_ View Post
Prosopagnosia probably.
More likely it's that they are completely recognizable as the same character and virtually everyone, after the patch, will look at the poster's character and think, "Yes, this is you," rather than, "You are a complete stranger, I don't recognize you at all."

The new character models and the old character models are somewhat like identical twins. People who know a set of twins very well can tell them apart, but no one else can.