They already have newer character models. Like the goblin. Even blood elf look better if you compare it to the first races that was part of vanilla.

I believe the graphics are already improved enough to make more detailed less blocky character models possible. Higher quality and more detail can still continue to be the same original art style. IMO, they just need to do it.

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by DavisFlight

WoW doesn't have anything in it that isn't done better by another game.

WoW does transmogrification better than any other game. They have so many armor sets that it works perfect for them and gives players a great reason to do the old raids.

wow has a great variety of armor choices - true

but the method of appearance gear  (transmogrification) is less intuitive than other mmos with that feature

(EQ2, LOTRO, RIFT)

 

in other mmos, you have appearance gear slots to determine your looks

no need to visit some npc and/or pay a fee

I disagree. Many WoW players had kept their old armor sets that they were very proud of in their storage. Transmogrification allows them to wear that armor that they worked hard to get.  

I see several games with Apearance gear. You go to the vender or the ingame cash shop and buy it. But WoW is the only game with transmogrification. Where you can change the apearance of your current gear to look like the gear that you had to go into a dungeon or raid and aquire.

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by DavisFlight

WoW doesn't have anything in it that isn't done better by another game.

WoW does transmogrification better than any other game. They have so many armor sets that it works perfect for them and gives players a great reason to do the old raids.

wow has a great variety of armor choices - true

but the method of appearance gear  (transmogrification) is less intuitive than other mmos with that feature

(EQ2, LOTRO, RIFT)

 

in other mmos, you have appearance gear slots to determine your looks

no need to visit some npc and/or pay a fee

I disagree. Many WoW players had kept their old armor sets that they were very proud of in their storage. Transmogrification allows them to wear that armor that they worked hard to get.  

I see several games with Apearance gear. You go to the vender or the ingame cash shop and buy it. But WoW is the only game with transmogrification. Where you can change the apearance of your current gear to look like the gear that you had to go into a dungeon or raid and aquire.

Anarchy Online, LotRO, EQ2, Rift, etc. make it very easy to look how you want with an appearance tab. Blizzard, ironically since they're the poster child for so-easy-a-child-could do-it-and-children-in-fact-do, had to make something simple a complicated chore.

Originally posted by Ausare
Blizzard is more worried about fluid animations than gimmick personalizations.

I agree with this for the most part.  WoW's controls are the smoothest of all mmorpgs with the third person/W,A,S,D type mechanics.  GW2 is definitely great, much better then swtor, warhammer, and Aion, but they are still not at the same level of WoW.

Originally posted by OG_Zorvan

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by DavisFlight

WoW doesn't have anything in it that isn't done better by another game.

WoW does transmogrification better than any other game. They have so many armor sets that it works perfect for them and gives players a great reason to do the old raids.

wow has a great variety of armor choices - true

but the method of appearance gear  (transmogrification) is less intuitive than other mmos with that feature

(EQ2, LOTRO, RIFT)

 

in other mmos, you have appearance gear slots to determine your looks

no need to visit some npc and/or pay a fee

I disagree. Many WoW players had kept their old armor sets that they were very proud of in their storage. Transmogrification allows them to wear that armor that they worked hard to get.  

I see several games with Apearance gear. You go to the vender or the ingame cash shop and buy it. But WoW is the only game with transmogrification. Where you can change the apearance of your current gear to look like the gear that you had to go into a dungeon or raid and aquire.

Anarchy Online, LotRO, EQ2, Rift, etc. make it very easy to look how you want with an appearance tab. Blizzard, ironically since they're the poster child for so-easy-a-child-could do-it-and-children-in-fact-do, had to make something simple a complicated chore.

Appearance gear is you paying money in a cash shop or to a vender and buy gear.

Appearance gear may be great for other games but Transmogrification is perfect for WoW. Way to many players had their old armor sets in their banks collecting dusts and Transmogrification rewards them with the ability to wear that gear again with the stats of their current gear.

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz
Appearance gear is you paying money in a cash shop or to a vender and buy gear.

Appearance gear may be great for other games but Transmogrification is perfect for WoW. Way to many players had their old armor sets in their banks collecting dusts and Transmogrification rewards them with the ability to wear that gear again with the stats of their current gear.

same applies for other mmos

Appearance slots allows you to wear whatever gear you like

 - including old armor sets, old quest gear

as i mentioned earlier, RIFT has no cash shop

i was constantly reviewing my quest rewards for "looks"

to decide if i wanted the quest gear shown on my character or not

wow looks so fugly lol

its funny people pay for that crap when games like tera online and secret world are around looking so much nicer 

I quit Wow after my first 85 because i was just bored of it, but i still think it looks good til this day :/ stop worrying about graphics and enjoy the well done aesthetics and gameplay.

If it bugs you that much, move on, the games old...

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by OG_Zorvan

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by DavisFlight

WoW doesn't have anything in it that isn't done better by another game.

WoW does transmogrification better than any other game. They have so many armor sets that it works perfect for them and gives players a great reason to do the old raids.

wow has a great variety of armor choices - true

but the method of appearance gear  (transmogrification) is less intuitive than other mmos with that feature

(EQ2, LOTRO, RIFT)

 

in other mmos, you have appearance gear slots to determine your looks

no need to visit some npc and/or pay a fee

I disagree. Many WoW players had kept their old armor sets that they were very proud of in their storage. Transmogrification allows them to wear that armor that they worked hard to get.  

I see several games with Apearance gear. You go to the vender or the ingame cash shop and buy it. But WoW is the only game with transmogrification. Where you can change the apearance of your current gear to look like the gear that you had to go into a dungeon or raid and aquire.

Anarchy Online, LotRO, EQ2, Rift, etc. make it very easy to look how you want with an appearance tab. Blizzard, ironically since they're the poster child for so-easy-a-child-could do-it-and-children-in-fact-do, had to make something simple a complicated chore.

Appearance gear is you paying money in a cash shop or to a vender and buy gear.

Appearance gear may be great for other games but Transmogrification is perfect for WoW. Way to many players had their old armor sets in their banks collecting dusts and Transmogrification rewards them with the ability to wear that gear again with the stats of their current gear.

You need to play more mmos.

Anarchy Online - have ingame armor or clothing you like the look of and don't want to change because you found something better? Two seconds to put the armor you like in your appearance slot and go.

EQ2? Same thing.

No vendor, no cash shop, no having to run to the nearest transmog station, or anything else needed.

And now you have the appearance of your old gear with the stats of the new.

Oh, and loot a really nice looking piece of armor with the wrong stats? In every other game, just slap it in appearance slot and go. New armor look with old stats. In WoW? Port back to a city, run to the transmog, go through the whole process, etc.

Blizzard took something that is normally kindergarten simple, and complicated it for no other reason than to call a simple everyday feature a "new gameplay mechanic".

Complication for the sake of complication is stupid.

Originally posted by sumfool

wow looks so fugly lol

its funny people pay for that crap when games like tera online and secret world are around looking so much nicer 

I find it funny people outside of Korea or China would play a game with graphics like Tera, so I guess we're both stymied.

Especially since the graphics in neither of those games make up for the lack of gameplay. I'll take WoW's cartoon look with good gameplay over Tera or TSW's graphics with lackluster and boring gameplay.

Originally posted by azrael466

There are rumors going around that they're going to give all the races a model update to match the increased polygon count that pandarian models have.

Not sure if its been confirmed, but there's that. Full game graphical update? don't count on it.

Why you still waiting for The Secret World? It's been out months?

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Johnie-Marz

Originally posted by DavisFlight

WoW doesn't have anything in it that isn't done better by another game.

WoW does transmogrification better than any other game. They have so many armor sets that it works perfect for them and gives players a great reason to do the old raids.

wow has a great variety of armor choices - true

but the method of appearance gear  (transmogrification) is less intuitive than other mmos with that feature

(EQ2, LOTRO, RIFT)

 

in other mmos, you have appearance gear slots to determine your looks

no need to visit some npc and/or pay a fee

I disagree. Many WoW players had kept their old armor sets that they were very proud of in their storage. Transmogrification allows them to wear that armor that they worked hard to get.  

I see several games with Apearance gear. You go to the vender or the ingame cash shop and buy it. But WoW is the only game with transmogrification. Where you can change the apearance of your current gear to look like the gear that you had to go into a dungeon or raid and aquire.

Welcome to MMORPGs young one. You have much to learn.

Bliizard just copied a common feature existent with exactly the same options in dozen of MMORPGs for months and years and hyped it under a new name as usual. WoW may be the only one who calls it transmogification for marketing purposes (like fooling newbs to believe its actually something they invented or did first and didnt just copy and paste like the remaining 98% of WoW "features" so often promoted under freshly made up terms or as if its was just thought up) but isnt the the only and certainly not the first one to offer this.

Appearance tabs or exclusive appearance gear is just another type of reskinning. What WoW copied was the most generic and basic item reskin principle available even in every second Chinese noname grinder.  For years.

The only difference between  what you call "transmog" and the dozen other MMORPGs like Aion who had this item reskinning feature long before WoW copied it (probably even ripped it off from Aion, wouldnt be the first time), is just a new name. Nothing else. WoW did not introduce ANYTHING new about item reskinning, WoW did NOT "improve" anything about it at, all leave alone does it "better than anyone" since its exactly the same as it was in other games minus a new name.

Originally posted by mark2123

Originally posted by azrael466

There are rumors going around that they're going to give all the races a model update to match the increased polygon count that pandarian models have.

Not sure if its been confirmed, but there's that. Full game graphical update? don't count on it.

Why you still waiting for The Secret World? It's been out months?

simply put? too lazy to change my  signature.