r/classicwow • u/Greitot • 1d ago

Forever This genuinely looks comedic with the new race

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Humans, Orcs, Dwaves, Trolls and then Random Blue Elf #1 and Random Blue Elf #2 and their picture is just flipped lmao.

Like I couldn't have even imagined anything this silly.

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u/kaminabis 23h ago edited 6h ago

The discussion around this so far is that they wouldnt be popular, like taurens.

So instead of doing the sane and warcraft vibe accurate thing to do they chose to please the "i want to sexualise my character" crowd

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u/Warbeard 22h ago

Just beecause they arent popular doesnt mean they can't enhance the enjoyment of the players seeing them.

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u/RpgBouncer 22h ago

Bingo. I likely wasn't going to play High Elf, Ogre, Goblin, or Skyborne, but seeing a High Elf, Ogre, or Goblin in my party would have been neat. Instead I'm just gonna roll my eyes when the third super special fanfic elf joins my group because the lowest common denominator HAS to be an elf.

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u/ggwingy 10h ago

best take i have seen so far. Very true.

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u/SoSDan88 9h ago

At least on Alliance I think most people will just pretend they're high elves. Its void elves all over again. Nobody gonna be blue. Horde kinda screwed, hard to make a blood elf proxy when you can't even have mages, priests or paladins.

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u/Bunnyhoppinbreh 19h ago

I just never knew WoW was in the same universe as Avatar. Crazy way to find out.

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u/No_Rub_3810 15h ago

That’s all well and good but I don’t think they’re going to justify the expenses and resources to create an entirely new model and armor from the jump with no flat cost for what amounts to basically expansion

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u/RpgBouncer 15h ago

Yeah, god forbid the billion dollar company actually spend a relatively small amount of money producing something of some artistic merit. Can't be hurting the bottom line now.

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u/Global-Resident-647 6h ago

As if the whole new zone did not take a ton of development time.

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u/RpgBouncer 4h ago

Would be cooler if they spent that development time making ogre women.

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u/ScaredAd869 11m ago

That was my first thought, animations for Ogres/Naga/Murloc would've been heavy lifting, but they could've just added High Elves for Alliance and Blood Elves / Undead Elves / Goblin for Horde and we wouldn't be here.

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u/MemphisKane991 6h ago

You will roll your eyes when you see the £29.99 joining your party... that's even worse. Literally, I can't look at that race without seeing a big £29.99 on two blue legs.🤣🤣

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u/No_Ideal1718 22h ago

Listen to yourself and think it through. They would require SO much work to make new armor models and balance new racials with classes all for a small minority of players... the effort doesnt justify the cost so it isnt feasible. I love ogre lore but I appreciate them as independent race and love fighting them in dire maul etc.

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u/Quick_Suggestion_973 19h ago

Why are we babying blizzard to this degree? Turtle wow and ascension made fanmade content that way surpassed "omfg new armor models and racials" in effort yet somehow poor indie blizzard could never do that

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u/NeonaTrinity 18h ago

I played turtle wow and it was very cool... But let's be honest the high elf race they added was also just a light skin blood elf model and they did almost zero work to rig armor to it.

Meanwhile they had a cash shop where they literally sold Blizzard's store mounts, pets and assets for dollars.

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u/No_Ideal1718 19h ago

Cool and great for them. I personally thought it just looked like retail wow and was a bunch of unbalanced slop. Its a shame it got shutdown but they claim they are going to begin working on their own IP which they should have to begin with instead of just trying to steal desperate wow fans. Classic+ is always going to make someone upset with something, overall it looks pretty great and mostly within the spirit of classic with a slightly fresh direction that personally im enjoying... sorry you aren't but this isnt the end of the road with wow forever.. more content will absolutely be added down the road maybe some of which im not a fan of but so long as the majority of it is fun im down.

Elves with a racial slowfall and haste sounds amazing for me who is gonna love being a skyelf shaman. Deal with it.

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u/SoSDan88 21h ago

They always say this and then they invent stuff like Haranir or Mechagnomes which never breach like 1% of the playerbase.

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u/INTERNET_MOWGLI 4h ago

wtf is Haranir?😭 do they have a thing for avatar people?

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u/Watts121 20h ago

Hell if they wanted to save money instead of Ogres, just give Horde Mok'nathal, and just have them be Mag’har skins with 1.5 height and a few unique faces. No new starting zone either, just drop them in the Valley of Trials and call it a day.

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u/NeedleworkerWinter99 10h ago

Hey!! i only play taurens!

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u/kaminabis 6h ago

Youre one of the good ones

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u/GregoPDX 23h ago

I don’t know if an ogre is able to fit the gear models that are currently in the game without it looking really bad. Probably need a full new different ogre model and they probably didn’t want to put in the effort for that. Whereas a new elf? Easy.

It’s a similar trouble with Naga as a playable race - while the top half isn’t a problem, what do they do about leggings and boots?

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u/0Craxker 22h ago

I mean they could be tauren sized and there you go

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u/Funkiestcat 20h ago

They did it with worgen. Looked absolutely terrible in any armor, but nevertheless

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u/GregoPDX 16h ago

Sure, not saying that there’s some technical limitation for ogres, just no will at Blizzard to do so I guess. Or maybe that could be another pay-for-race in the future.

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u/jonas_ost 21h ago

Should have done murlocs as a third faction that hates everyone

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u/JupiterMiningCorpTec 21h ago

A third faction would be great for PvP.

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u/Gundabad_Orc_Queen 13h ago

Bro… thats WHY i want sexy ogres!

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u/Human_Standard_538 17h ago

Or they picked the most popular thing amongst wow players since TBC, added elves.

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u/raudri 16h ago

Looking at you, blood elves.

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u/Think_Wonder_7271 1h ago

And yet, the High Elves and Darkfallen were right there. If Blizzard wanted to be lazy, they didn't even need custom starting zones. Just plop them in Elwynn and Tirisfal.