Ever wondered why Blizzard seem to take an age to implement new content? Why do we have to wait for weeks to see certain issues resolved? Why are the same armor models used for several different items?
Bornakk explained a bit of the creation process earlier, after a frustrated forum member on the US WoW forums complained about the re-use of models and not enough time spent by Blizzard in creating new ones:
I don’t mean to jump on a bandwagon here, but I do think designing new armor models takes a lot more time than you are giving it credit for. Not only does a new design have to be made from scratch with all of the coordinating pieces, but then it has to be made to fit for all of the races that use it. If one class gets a new armor set, then that means all of them do, so the time and resources build up very quickly to accomplish this.
A lot of people don’t understand the idea of a development cycle so I posted information to explain things a bit. Keep in mind that this doesn’t apply to just armor models but everything we implement. We do delay things until we feel they are ready, but in the end, we don’t have an unlimited amount of time to do things - if anybody knows somebody who is selling more time, pst.







I’m not sure why everyone gets so up in arms about a model being recolored or whatever to represent another.