“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Making five different skeletons for five different horse mounts just because the forums don't know how much work just a remodel is, is quite literally a huge waste. All five are horses; all five of them are expected to move like horses. No need to have more than 1 horse skeleton. What could be nice, though, is additional animations now and then. Like if they were to make the spider mount that so many people want. The old spider skeleton works, but it has no really outstanding animations. Like with other mounts, they can add extra idle animations, extra walk cycles and a /mountspecial. But making shiny new skeletons for every mount of the same animal? That's just silly.
And secondly, I'll repeat myself: The Skyscreamer (Pterodactyl) skeleton is modified enough from the Proto-drake skeleton in animations and posture that it can be counted as its own skeleton. For that reason, we don't have four mounts sharing the same skeleton. But we have four mounts sharing two skeletons. The Dread Raven using the Pterodactyl one, and the Firehawk using the Proto-drake one.
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Lecture me on your vast knowledge of skeletal meshes. I'm very curious of what you know. As I picture it, skeletal meshes are like the cake and models are like the icing. What's so different about them to be upset about? They both take up space and are assets used in animation.
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Yea, the sub fee. Good luck using the mount if you're not subbed.
Asymmetric comparison. Try comparing it to other video games.
15bucks for a month's worth of entertainment: great deal. I can see the value in paying and playing.
15bucks a month just to log in(plus other required fees) for the amount/quality of content WoW put out, VS the price of other video games? that's far less of a good deal to say the least.
Indeed, Blizzard should of course reuse assets where ever possible for efficiency's sake, but not too much else it's just lazy.
Get your terminology right people, complain about re-used skeletons/animations instead of models.
It'd be more like Skeletons are the ingredients to the cake. You could use the same ingredients to make 5 cakes, but each one can be baked in a different shape or size of pan and then coated with a different frosting. Same skeletons (ingredients), different models (shapes and sizes), different skins (colors and toppings)
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They could of done no mount at all. They could of just said fuck it. The Skeleton is reused the most.
Take Algalon from Ulduar? His model is completely new. His skeleton? It's the Dagger animations of a Vrkyul. Vrykul skeleton and this was Wrath. You wanna bitch about rehashing? Learn what it actually is and not what you confuse people with it. It really vexes me that people call it lazyness.
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Ha ha actually just posted this in the other mount topic...didn't see this one...
Yeah I want a Rickshaw
While I am not really that bothered with the topic, even though I tend to be quite pissy about achievement rewards\etc that are lazy'ish works, this one is indeed an easy one to get - however I'll admit that as soon as I tried it out, the second I logged in after receiving it and noticed it shared the animations of the Celestial Steed, I automatically went "Oh, nice.." and naturally went back to my old mount.
In short, disappointing, but that's getting a regular state whenever WoW is involved (); But it is a mount given to us on a plate, so oh well. It'll do.
They should go less mounts, but more unique
A lot (read, all but a small handful) of BC's models were reused skeletons from Vanilla.
Did I just blow y'all hater's minds?
The only new skeletons for models were the elekks, engineering copters, and nether rays. All the others came from Vanilla. That's THREE new skeletons.
Let's compare that to other expansions:
WotLK:
Mammoths
Proto-drakes
Motorcycles
Flying Carpet
= Four Skeletons
Cataclysm:
Goblin go-kart
Camel
Sea Horse
= 3 skeletons
MoP:
Water Strider
Cloud Serpent
Yak
Quilen
Kite
Flying Cloud
=six skeletons
Mists of Pandaria has had the most unique skeletons for mounts by far.
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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
It's just a God damn mount.
Chill out.
Also, it runs through the air. It does not fly. It runs.
Pretty much a reflection of the amount of effort blizzard puts into the game these days. The same old gear sets just get recolored and re-released as well.
I think they fired a lot of game designers and hired a bunch of dudes to scheme about how to extract every last cent out of us.
The mount is far from free. First, you don't own it. You pay to access it every month.A goddamn free mount...
Also, we should be getting new content on a fairly regular basis. One ugly reskin every 6-8 months doesn't cut it.
Are you currently shitting me with this... it flaps its wings...
You know that the entirety of the sunwell tier shared armor and weapon models with that season's PvP gear, right?Pretty much a reflection of the amount of effort blizzard puts into the game these days. The same old gear sets just get recolored and re-released as well.
You're becoming a parody of yourself.I think they fired a lot of game designers and hired a bunch of dudes to scheme about how to extract every last cent out of us.
That's true of every mount, from the Talbuk that was a remodeled ram to the hawkstrider that was a remodeled plainstrider to Ashes of Al'ar that was a remodeled gryphon.The mount is far from free. First, you don't own it. You pay to access it every month.
They have an entire expansion they're working on, if you missed that memo. And the mount isn't a reskin.Also, we should be getting new content on a fairly regular basis. One ugly reskin every 6-8 months doesn't cut it.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.