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Reactions to Blood Elf Model Change too much?

Posted Oct 24, 2006 at 03:18AM by Ian C. Listed in: World of Warcraft, Off Topic, Screenshots Tags: Blizzard, Google, elves, Blood Elves
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The images below caused a lot of fans to complain. Apparently they want their Blood Elves to look all thin and beautiful, and this "pop-eye-arm" model change is not satisfactory. This of course right after Mike Schramm, the guy who made the WoW Insider post, cautioned that Blizzard's Burning Crusade is a changing piece of work.

popeye?popeye?


Of course WoW poster Ephraim and his clarifications that the pop-eye arms only show up at certain angles were mostly ignored by "haters." People still went on to complain. Sigh. Anyway, here's a nice picture Of Ephraim's point that the change really isn't much:

New model on the left, old model on the right


Okay, so now that's cleared up, we're thinking that people will move on to nitpick the female Blood Elf models next. Why are people so picky about their Elves anyway? Maybe geeks in general just have a soft-spot for overpowered skinny people with pointy ears. I'd like to post the Penny-Arcade "stark comparisons" strip here so you guys can get a better Idea of what I'm talking about, but you guys can probably Google that up yourselves.

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   by moonkid - 2006-10-24
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I dunno, I like the slim model very much but the new model doesn't look too terrible. I just think that elves were one of the more refined races more about using magic and such as opposed to say Orcs who are all about the fighting. Needless to say I will still be rolling a Blood Elf after getting my main to 70 :)))

(btw FIRST!!!!111!)


   Re: Good Stuff (Unregistered) - 2006-10-25
 » BE's
Alright they still look normal, cool. I thought those damn geeks ruined the BE's by making them ORC BUFF....now that its settled i dont have to be mad at all you geeks and dorks.

Even though they still look good, im sort of under the impression that their "buff" Physiques clash with the lore of warcraft...whatever good times.


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