Stormwind City Guards and Civilians Receive Updated Diverse Appearances in Shadowlands

Pubblicato 10/09/2020 alle 00:38 da perculia

ShadowlandsShadowlandsShadowlandsInitial Announcement on Diverse AppearancesRedShirtGuy for BlizzplanetQ: One of the things I’m really excited about in the new customization features is how its sort of allowed sub-races of a sort to get in, like Sandfury trolls and Wildhammer dwarves. And then those purple trolls who may be dark trolls or Shatterspear trolls; it’s not clear. But I wondered: it reminded me, in the pre-patch to Cataclysm they added little questlines explaining some of the new race/class combinations. Would there possibly be something similar about, like, Sandfury trolls or high elves in the Shadowlands pre-patch?

A: There are no specific plans along those lines in Shadowlands. Though I think we are planning on just broadly incorporating the range of character customization options for NPCs as well as players just across the world.

I think, in some ways we’re frankly viewing this as a bit of a retcon. Like, we’re not going to change existing named, established characters and make them look different. But, walking around Stormwind, walking around other parts of the world, you will see guards and random civilians that have these looks as if they’ve been there all along. Because frankly I think we see this as correcting an oversight on our part over the years, as well as just trying to improve representation more broadly. We are custodians of a fantasy universe and a world that we built, and we don’t want to not do the right thing because we feel shackled to a decision that was made creatively in a different era that was fifteen-plus years ago.

Now, as for details of troll clans and dwarven clans and the rest, I think as we have opportunities to do things like racial heritage lines or other race focused questlines, that’s a fun opportunity to explore those areas. But we don’t have any specific thoughts for Shadowlands right now.interview with Art Director Ely Cannon
With all the diversity now possible in player customization options, we’re curious if the new customization options will also be reflected on Shadowlands NPC appearances? And will existing NPCs around Azeroth (like Stormwind NPCs from Cataclysm) receive new appearances reflecting the new diverse customization options?

As with any tool we have available with us, designers will make use of it for current or future content. That may include going back to the old world, when new vendors are added, and customizing and updating some of the old NPCs in the world. But it depends on the time involved and what our bandwidth is. Our focus is always on the next expansion and the content coming up to provide the best possible game, but certainly having those available gives our designers a lot more to work with, and I would expect to see more of that diversity and customization represented in the world going forward for sure.

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Commento di couchpotato2013The guards are easy enough to change, so I don’t mind them being replaced. Just like shift/patrol work. Old guys get promoted or they die and new ones come in.Given races like Night Elves, Worgen, Pandaren, Goblins, and Undead taking permanent residence in SW/Org, it'd be really cool to see more races than Humans and Orcs being Guards in the capitals, and the new Shadowlands customization options being put on other older NPC's, especially those in the BFA zones, given that it's the new player experience for leveling would be neat as well; but I think just having the existing Human NPC's have more than the prior 4 or so customization permutations is a great improvement over what was previously there.Commento di Berserker1996You'd have to be an uber nerd to get upset by them changing random flavour npcs.Commento di Roxurohopefully all npcs get updated with new options. Of course, to some degree as probably not every orc in Orgrimmar is a guerilla fighter or something.Commento di PhillyourthirstI thought they said they wouldn't replace named NPCs and would only add new ones?

...I guess I personally don't care that much, but changing existing characters is definitely going to upset some people (assuming I'm understanding this correctly).Commento di kodora1316100% behind this change, it’s been needed for a long timeCommento di cheesey3RemovedCommento di VasiliskiRemovedCommento di ChunkyCoffeeWhat about people who were already established as being inspired from another culture but not having the ability to do so when they were created? Like Wu Shen in Old Town and Shen Kang Cheng in Dalaran? Anyone from the wowhead team able to update article with images of them and see if they've changed to use the new Asian-esque appearances? Also maybe now Woo Ping can finally return from his journey after clinging onto Deathwing. >.>Commento di StellarDuskoh no! they changed the skin color of that random shopkeeper that i dont even buy stuff from! How DARE you blizzard?

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But for reals, sometimes i can agree with the "forced diversity" argument but if anyone is angry for a change so insignificant like this, it's grasping at straws at this point.Commento di TheCyramOh, yay! I'm glad they're doing this, both because it's time and I will always welcome inclusion, and because those great hairstyles and whatnot will be put to use on the old world as wel.
Hopefully we're going to see more of this in other cities as well.
I'd love to see Silvermoon with a bit more color, as well.
... I honestly would take anything that would improve Silvermoon even a minuscule amount.
But, yeah. Yay!Commento di RoguePostDocNo asians! I'm offended! /s

but really, any Asian customization in SW?Commento di SlythraThe guards and not named npcs are totally fine. Idk about the named ones though, even if people consider them "generic shopkeepers". Seems kinda weirdCommento di bluebird91I thought they said they wouldn't replace named NPCs and would only add new ones?

...I guess I personally don't care that much, but changing existing characters is definitely going to upset some people (assuming I'm understanding this correctly).and add a racially diverse NPC called Susannah insteadCommento di RoguePersonI hope they show off some of the new darker skinned blood/void/high elves in the city too.Commento di couchpotato2013Oh, yay! I'm glad they're doing this, both because it's time and I will always welcome inclusion, and because those great hairstyles and whatnot will be put to use on the old world as wel.
Hopefully we're going to see more of this in other cities as well.
I'd love to see Silvermoon with a bit more color, as well.
... I honestly would take anything that would improve Silvermoon even a minuscule amount.
But, yeah. Yay!Commento di ChichizuzuRemovedCommento di VelndrisI hope this was carefully done and not just randomized.Commento di RivenbladeEhhhhhhhhhhh... It's "okay" as long as we don't change the races of existing characters, that would be a pretty cheap attempt at adding "diversity" to the game. Isn't there room to add new characters who look different to the game? Sadly (but I could be misremembering) this may be the case I think, one of the three mage ladies in Stormwind mage quarter sitting and taking together, seems to have had her race changed, unless she was one of those "skin color painted onto body" characters that weren't really black ethnically, then sure maybe it isn't what I originally thought I'll admit. However, if Blizzard is ever caught changing the races of named NPCs in a distastefully obvious way, they better prepare for backlash. That's just not cool to change the race of a known character just because "there's not enough of this or that race" make some new characters, otherwise you're just lazily backtracking on "mistakes", not that I think having too much of one "race" was ever an issue in this fantasy game with hundreds of unique humanoids lol.Commento di AnaideAdd new diverse characters, maybe with some new flavor lines to truly implement diverse cultures and ancestry? Naaaaaah, lets just randomly change appearance of the existing ones, just because.Commento di WrenWell now they're going to need to add more parts to Azeroth to explain all of the different genetic variations. Or just say the Titans did it I guess.

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