Customization LU?

[Lowell_high]

<p>Any chance that there will ever been a LU about customization?  Personally I'd like to see a LU if not entirely but partially devoted to customizations.  </p><ul><li>New Hairstyles</li><li>New Clothing (not the same outfit with different colors)</li><li>Hair added to Helms (Why are we always bald with hats on?)</li><li>New Emotes</li><li>Different details, scars, tattooes, glasses etc.</li><li>Cloaks with hoods and more Emblems / Styles</li><li>New spell effects / animations</li><li>Voices in combat (how about battle crys that are randomly shouted instead of macroing them?)</li></ul><p>Any chance of seeing this in the future?</p>

[Cyllus]

  New emotes? You mean you don't like the sight of an Ogre doing /dance ... or a /flirt -ing Barbarian? <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />  Yes the game has some bugs that need fixed, but I'd like to see some of this, personally. More eye candy can't be a bad thing.

[Zabjade]

<span style="color: #00cc00;">Yeah I bet the real reason WoW does better then EQ2 is the /dance and other emotes. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></span>

[Branlach]

<cite>Yosemite@Nagafen wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Any chance that there will ever been a LU about customization?  Personally I'd like to see a LU if not entirely but partially devoted to customizations.  </p><ul><li>New Hairstyles</li><li>New Clothing (not the same outfit with different colors)</li><li>Hair added to Helms (Why are we always bald with hats on?)</li><li>New Emotes</li><li>Different details, scars, tattooes, glasses etc.</li><li>Cloaks with hoods and more Emblems / Styles</li><li>New spell effects / animations</li><li>Voices in combat (how about battle crys that are randomly shouted instead of macroing them?)</li></ul><p>Any chance of seeing this in the future?</p></blockquote>Agreed on everything, this is something I'd love to see as well.

[-Arctura-]

(( once the character revamp changes go live we will see what is in store for everyone 8-)<u><b>re: battle cries randomly in combat:</b></u>That would require alot of studio time with voice actors, and depending on the number of races / vocal-styles, you are looking at at minimum 6-24+ voice actors.Assuming you want more than 1 taunt per race/vocal-style, you are looking at exponential amounts of time in a recording studio with hired talent.compounded with Script-writers creating custom battle taunts or battle cries for all races, genders and vocal-stylescompounded with cleanup and processing time for the audio technicians to actually get the voiceovers in game...compounded with animators doing facial lip synccompounded with programmers implementing the random battle-cry coding into the current animation/combat codeAnd it's a very, very expensive undertaking.Dont forget, after all the hard work of the above people investing in this new content, many people will probably hear every taunt there is to hear within a week, and quickly grow tired of them.Threads will likely pop up in the forums saying 'allow people to TURN OFF combat taunts, they are annoying!'So programmers will have to go in and enable a feature to disable incombat battle cries and taunts. (more time + money)Take for example Nathan Ironforge.... Have YOU ever seen a gnoll before?my point exactly.They might have done a Great job on the audio, but anything in excess gets really annoying really quickly unless we can toggle them on or off at will.Now, im just being devils advocate here. I would LOVE such a thing to be implemented with battle cries, that would add ALOT of flavor and be really cool 8-)But I just had to be realistic for a moment and think it through.

[Sphiriah]

I think it would be neat if we had random voices in combat.And we can use the voice emotes that are already in game.For example.. taunt a mob, have a chance to speak the /taunt emote. Start a HO, have a chance to speak the /heroic emote .. etc.You could also turn it off of course.

[Krinta]

<cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">Yeah I bet the real reason WoW does better then EQ2 is the /dance and other emotes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></span></blockquote><p>Yup! I myself still find myself wanting to go back to WoW just for the /dance on all the race's! There funny and bring joy to the game. The stuff we have now is just junky and lazy I think sony make's so much off us but we can't get things like this.</p><p>Heck I still want the Halfling SOGA model's fixed the Gi's all look like the starter armor tell level 35+ and the chain armor legging's dont have the flap's tell level 42+ MCed.</p><p>At lest blizzard would fix this stuff sony does not care long as they get there money each month.</p>

[Lindar Phamoncry]

Ordinarily I would agree on all points, but...If they are actually planning on finishing up these new skeletons in the next year or two I'd hope that any time spent on things like this would be for the new models and not the current ones.

[Apocroph]

<cite>StarManWild wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite><blockquote><span style="color: #00cc00;">Yeah I bet the real reason WoW does better then EQ2 is the /dance and other emotes. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" />" width="15" height="15" /></span></blockquote><p>Yup! I myself still find myself wanting to go back to WoW just for the /dance on all the race's! There funny and bring joy to the game. The stuff we have now is just junky and lazy I think sony make's so much off us but we can't get things like this.</p><p>Heck I still want the Halfling SOGA model's fixed the Gi's all look like the starter armor tell level 35+ and the chain armor legging's dont have the flap's tell level 42+ MCed.</p><p>At lest blizzard would fix this stuff sony does not care long as they get there money each month.</p></blockquote>1) Blizzard makes vastly more money from their vastly larger subscriber base, and can thus afford a vastly larger dev team.  Sony makes a lot of money on our subscriptions, yes, but the overwhelming majority of that goes right back into keeping the game available for your consumption.  MMOs are not nearly as profitable as you think.2) These requests, while potentially fun, introduce more things to suck up resources in an already processor-hungry game.  To accomodate these properly, they'd have to shift a lot of rendering to the GPU.

[Dragowulf]

If we had the PBJT dance I would never ever ever leave EQ2.....ever.drago.