@Silence:
Fuck 'dem.
People have been begging for model updates since the Burning Crusade. Four years and three, going on four expansions. And FIVE new races with high poly count models. If they actually really honestly honest to god update the models, I'll come back to WoW in a heartbeat. The bitchers are the same folks who bitch about everything. The same extremely vocal minority that cries bloody murder over everything. Like the Scourge Invasion.
Fuck 'dem.
At least Blizzard has said they plan on updating them eventually no matter what.
Meh I've been whining since WOTLK at it :P, the TBC models weren't far from the original, now comparing the original to Goblin/Worgen/Pandaren its painful to watch and blizzard said there is no comparision between both.
I have only created Goblin of the classes I still had to level Xd and race changed my Orc shaman to Goblin too.
I seriously hope they do this fast, I my Troll hunter, Orc Warrior, Belf Paladin(y I don't like cows) and Orc DK, with their respective races not to race change them but it pisses me off to see a triangular character with awesome nowdays gear.
They said some people might be annoyed and prefer the old models(for some fucking reason) instead of the new ones, but according to this Blizzcon, they said even if that happens this is bound to happen and the models will get updated, I remember back at last year Blizzcon I believe this was asked and they were thinking of giving people an option to keep the old model or use the new one, maybe that is a way to control the whining but I think that will probably give them a lot more work.
Maybe just give a free race change for every "old", character people have, so if they aren't happy with the new model they can change to one they like(they would never do this, much money to lose :D, specilaly now that they are with activision)
Here is the Blue post talking about it.
@Zarhym:
Art Director Chris Robinson spoke on this just moments ago at the BlizzCon Open Q&A panel. It was in reply to an attendee who brought up that, in the art panel, it was explained that the pandaren model has 10 times the bone structures of the classic races, allowing for many more facial animations.
To paraphrase his statement – which isn't too different from what I've said here on the forums before -- we absolutely plan on updating the existing models. As Chris mentioned, we want to make sure we preserve the look and feel of the original models players have come to know and love, while vastly improving their model and animation quality to be more in-line with the newer races.
We're not going to hide behind the statement that too many players will get mad if we tamper with their models, but it's a concern -- not a concern that's going to stop us from doing it, however. I want to stress as well that it's a massive undertaking to go back and do this. And to a lot of people it's something that won't be considered shiny new content. But not only do we hear the masses of players calling for this update, we really feel it's time to bring them up to par with newer models as well.
The game continues to age, but as we have no plans of slowing down on development any time in the near future, we want to keep updating and polishing it to stand the test of time (again, without sacrificing the look and feel which has brought players in over the years).
@StrawHatRican:
I swear to Christ…
Next idiot who asks "Did Blizzard ask Dreamworks/Kung Fu Panda for a copyright?" or any variation of that can dry up and die =\
It's just as old as "LOL TOR IS WOW WIT LITESABERZ"
-_-
A dude asked if they could make one of the Pandaren leaders being voice by Jack Black, Metzen answered this.
They don't really have leaders like the other factions. There are important pandas, representatives to each faction sure, but no single leader. No Jack Black voices, it isn't a panda movie. We were going to give Alliance pandas in Burning Crusade, but it didn't really fit. We have been serious about doing it for a long time, and it is a good thing we didn't do it then. We can do it much cooler and in a more interesting way now.
Btw really liking the Pandaren atitude from what they explained.
P.S. Fucking people in my server stole my Pandaman name for my Monk…(yes I use One Piece names for all my characters)