I hope the writers see this thread, throw out whatever they had going, and make this happen. The cutscenes can just be the pictures from this thread. I’m fine with that.
I noticed on my Asura (I know, Sylvari forum, what are you gonna do?), that when swapping between my town outfit and my regular outfit my eyes also turn red. It’s almost like there are weird placeholder eyes happening. I’m pretty sure this happens every single time I swap for a second before the correct model comes up. I’m not sure it’s the same problem, but it seems to have almost the same effect. If the below image is too painful I can photoshop some leaves onto my head. <3 Cross my fingers this ends up in a bug forum so then I just look like a crazy person.
Getting to this vista is actually less time consuming than it used to be. Once you drop down onto the platform/walkway (above where the crafting stations used to be) you can also walk up the tail of the statue, should you prefer it. There’s also a rubble pile up there right about where the big statue used to be..
Did they not test this out? The halo and horns being small is one thing. We’re Asura; we’re used to that. The horns and halo disappearing into hair styles? That has to be an oversight. My toes can stick out of my boots all day, I can still see the boots.
So wait, it really sounds like what you’re explicitly asking for is Anet to make the trailers JUST vague enough so that no one will speculate and potentially ruin the story for you. My suggestion is to avoid the forums about the new content until that content is out. If the trailers spoil too much for you don’t watch them. If the forums spoil to much for you don’t read them. If you like having arms, keep them out of the wood chipper.
MMOs haven’t done it before because for years and years the race you picked in an MMO dictated a lot of things about what kind of character you were going to play, either by setting up your stats or by dictating your available classes. This game has no such restrictions and there is basically no reason they couldn’t do it.
Would it bum a lot of people out? Probably. Would it be interesting and dynamic? Absolutely. The closest I think any game has come to such a thing is maybe Second Life with their removal of last names after a certain period of time and I can’t tell you how cool it feels to be one of 5 people with a last name in an entire world.
That said, I sincerely doubt they’ll do it and it’s mostly a resource concern. If they got rid of Sylvari and added a new race they would still need to keep all the Sylvari character assets they have in place. Every new user would be downloading all the Sylvari HQ visual data without access to the race from a playable standpoint. In addition they would need to continually update and upgrade the graphics on various armors for an ever dwindling userbase.
I’d be on board if they started removing player races personally, but from a technical standpoint, I doubt it’ll happen. Storywise: Possible | Technically: Unlikely | Playerbase: Would throw a big whiny fit like they do over everything
