r/classicwow • • 9h ago

Humor / Meme HD Models are

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u/Rascal_Dubois 8h ago

Gotta love how for years now Blizzard has had the resources to literally maintain multiple different versions of the game simultaneously, several with vastly different art styles.

Yet despite having nearly a decade of evidence that they have the resources to support multiple separate versions of the game, the breaking point for Blizzards resources (according to this sub) will be maintaining two character art syles in Forever. That is simply not possible.

Are people genuinely this dumb?

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u/ReanimatedBlink 7h ago

No, the point is that developing older art styles isn't as easy as "lower the resolution".

The older artstyle was a byproduct of technical limitations. When you are FORCED to work within limitations you tend to get much more creative with how to work around them. Those limitations no longer exist so matching the exact style that existed in 2004 is really not possible.

Thats without getting into the problem of technology and training. New developers and designers aren't using the old tech, they're using new tech that naturally smooths things out.

Dedicating a significant number of resources to developing wholely new content in the exact style that will prevent you bozos from crying is an impossible task and one they shouldn't waste their time on. You guys have already proven you won't stop bitching about it. I'd rather have them spend their time on the actual game.

And yes, this is coming from someone who first bought the game in Dec 05.

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u/TWFH 4h ago

Sounds like they should have just stuck to the SD stuff and not added the HD ones

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u/SorrenXiri 2h ago

Stuck with the SD stuff? They weren’t even going to put the SD stuff in till the idiotic streamers told them they had too