we Should have Weight Options Customizations by now

[Local Skinwalker]

i am Loving the amount of new customization options that came with SLands and even 9.15
but I think its also time to take the next step and add weight proportion options.
There is really no down side.....unless ppl intend to troll each other with offensive names to go with a certainly sized characters

but why isnt this an option already??
Other games including VR games on steam allow you to create your avatars with weight options.
i would Like to have certain non-KT human toons of mine be heavier set or even skinnier compared to the generic, based on the Fantasy i am trying to play out.

[vincink]

There is really no down side.....unless ppl intend to troll each other with offensive names to go with a certainly sized characters

Trust me, it's the internet. If it can be done, it will be done.

[Waldor666]

I dont want to see loads of fatties running about my screen. Its bad enough seeing Kul Tiran and Pandas

[Local Skinwalker]

I dont want to see loads of fatties running about my screen. Its bad enough seeing Kul Tiran and Pandas

this is a prime of example of non-reasons that Should not be taken seriously
i mean really, what harm does this do for you??

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Trust me, it's the internet. If it can be done, it will be done.

yeah i Dont doubt this.......but if you are going by my example , and it is a problem with the Name only, isnt that already an issue in the game with offensive names for characters??

[Cthulhu 2020]

It's more about the limitations of WoW's old ass engine. If you only have to load one body type for each race and gender combo, that's it, it's loaded into active memory. You apply skin color, face # whatever, and hair + hair color and the character is loaded.

The more custimzations and sliders you add, the more of a toll it takes, and on an old engine like WoW's, it'd probably make the engine explode for a lot of people.

That and at this point, Blizzard doesn't want body shaming memes with all the hugely bad press already swarming around the company.

[vincink]

yeah i Dont doubt this.......but if you are going by my example , and it is a problem with the Name only, isnt that already an issue in the game with offensive names for characters??

Yes, it is already a problem with names. My fear with weight customization isn't so much the abuse but the policing of abuse. Blizzard polices by simply removing features or pieces of content rather than punishing the abusers. Or, I should say, when abuse of a feature becomes a big enough problem, Blizzard simply removes that feature. (Thinking of the recent removal of /joke content that "may be offensive to some".) As a result, well-behaved players are punished for the wrongs of a few poor-behaved players.

[ONCHEhap]

No one wants to see fat fucks more than necessary

[loras]

i am Loving the amount of new customization options that came with SLands and even 9.15
but I think its also time to take the next step and add weight proportion options.
There is really no down side.....unless ppl intend to troll each other with offensive names to go with a certainly sized characters

but why isnt this an option already??
Other games including VR games on steam allow you to create your avatars with weight options.
i would Like to have certain non-KT human toons of mine be heavier set or even skinnier compared to the generic, based on the Fantasy i am trying to play out.

I would make a morbidly obese female gnome warlock named "Foodball, conqueror of Orgrimmar".
My reign of terror in random battlegrounds would be unmatched to such an extent that i would consider trying to go for the title "Salty".

Naturally you can only indirectly affect your weight depending on the food you eat.
Otherwise we'd have to calculate howmuch energy it costs me to shove detonating imps up people's crevices.

[Local Skinwalker]

No one wants to see fat fucks more than necessary

I would make a morbidly obese female gnome warlock named "Foodball, conqueror of Orgrimmar".
My reign of terror in random battlegrounds would be unmatched to such an extent that i would consider trying to go for the title "Salty".

Naturally you can only indirectly affect your weight depending on the food you eat.
Otherwise we'd have to calculate howmuch energy it costs me to shove detonating imps up people's crevices.

i Must admit, these replies are giving me a chuckle.....but i guess it Also highlights the potential issues of abuse that could be done.
I Suppose there would be those who would be offended by fatter characters running around , and those who would be offended by other players /pointing at them and calling them " fat fucks"
it Just sucks that those alone would prevent Blizz from adding these customization options

that or as @Cthulhu 2020 pointed out , is game engine limitations

[Aleksej89]

it would screw up with the models/gear appearance and general animations & blizz doesnt want to invest effort into making it work.

[Dellis0991]

I dont want to see loads of fatties running about my screen. Its bad enough seeing Kul Tiran and Pandas

^Your post is why I'll make a bunch fat funky ass toons.

[Kaleredar]

Because the models weren't designed to have weight sliders as a possibility. Changing it would be prohibitively difficult.

Or in technical terms:

Adding a new set of blend shapes to accommodate for different sizes in every race would not only be prohibitively time consuming, but would also potentially cause problems with the animation cycles as they're layered onto the newly deformed meshes, in addition to likely causing problems in respect to the anchoring of armor pieces that add additional geometry AND cause potential UV stretching/squashing issues depending on the extent to which the blend shapes alter the original character's mesh.

[Nathanyel]

this is a prime of example of non-reasons that Should not be taken seriously
i mean really, what harm does this do for you??

It's a thing snowflakes do, you know, the people who call everyone else a snowflake when those others recoil at their obviously bad takes. When in truth, they get upset themselves about things that don't even affect them.

[arkanon]

It's really simple - armor. Truth be told, MOST armor sets look absolutely terrible on KT and Pandas. It always looks distorted and stretched, which it obviously is.

[Irian]

While I can't see a slider, I can totally see some races getting alternate builds based on existing NPC models that already work with most armor. Gaunt male blood elves and humans, bulky forest trolls and thicker female blood elves are all models we've seen on NPCs already so it probably wouldn't be hard to put them in the game.

i Must admit, these replies are giving me a chuckle.....but i guess it Also highlights the potential issues of abuse that could be done.
I Suppose there would be those who would be offended by fatter characters running around , and those who would be offended by other players /pointing at them and calling them " fat fucks"
it Just sucks that those alone would prevent Blizz from adding these customization options

To be fair this didn't stop them from adding different ethnicities to WoW, because as depressing as it is, most of the dark-skinned characters I've seen are just racist jokes and my own black human mage gets an uncomfortable amount of racist jokes.

WoW's community is depressing and ruins everything, but it shouldn't stop Blizzard from adding stuff anyway.

[vsb]

Yes and huge boobs for blood elves please.

[Julmara]

if it didnt happen now it probably will never happen currently only mods fill that void sadly
would use glorious super big pandaren tail every day over the inferior ones ingame

[THEORACLE64]

I mean, give me the skinny Kul Tirans and i'm changed for life.

[Doffen]

Yes and huge boobs for blood elves please.

Yeah, make it happen already.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It's more about the limitations of WoW's old ass engine. If you only have to load one body type for each race and gender combo, that's it, it's loaded into active memory. You apply skin color, face # whatever, and hair + hair color and the character is loaded.

The more custimzations and sliders you add, the more of a toll it takes, and on an old engine like WoW's, it'd probably make the engine explode for a lot of people.

That and at this point, Blizzard doesn't want body shaming memes with all the hugely bad press already swarming around the company.

WoW doesn't need to add sliders; Blizzard could have just added thin human and fat human models as barber shop options for human races.

The bulky orc and bulky troll models could have also been added as options but I don't think those models have all of the player animations so more work would have been needed to add them.