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Turalyon

0. Why are we still waiting for race changes...? 10/06/2009 09:05:41 AM PDT

You're killing me Blizz...seriously....

...and I'm tired of rezing as a Draenei :(

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Ysera

1. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 09:08:04 AM PDT

Because its not ready yet.

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Anvilmar

2. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 09:08:39 AM PDT

:( once i get my account back from these hackers, i wants a race change :D

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3. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 09:11:59 AM PDT

Please read the last line of my sig

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Draenor

4. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 09:12:04 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
You're killing me Blizz...seriously....

...and I'm tired of rezing as a Draenei :(

Cause i want to wait till the race changes are completely announced for Cata before I decide. I only choose human for the rep % gain for old world reps. But once i have em all, what's the point anymore? Rather be NElf for a tank, right now anyways (or actually i want to be a gnome for the haircuts, seriously blizz why can't all races get green/pink hair and mohawks? I mean is a barber that bad ? I mean real life humans have these. sigh) But who knows when Cata hits, they talkinga bout buffing/changing all races abilities or something.

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Kargath

5. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 09:18:55 AM PDT

You will beg for them to hurry up, and when they rush it out to you (as you wanted them to do), it will have bugs, and you will whine about it.

Happens every time. ;)

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Lightninghoof

7. So I can be a Human Hunter 10/06/2009 10:34:23 AM PDT

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Blackrock

8. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 10:35:21 AM PDT

Cause work takes work!? O.o

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Tichondrius

9. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 10:38:44 AM PDT

Ugggg so I take it they still arent coming out? LAME

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Lightninghoof

10. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 10:40:24 AM PDT

I think it's more a matter of marketability and timing than it is logistics and coding.

People are going to use the Race Change feature regardless. But right now that feature excludes half the Shamans and Paladins in the game, and all the druids. It seems likely that they would want to wait for a time when people had a real reason (read: a new reason) to use it. For instance, on or around the time of new race/class combinations.

That way, the paid service they offer has a built in and pregenerated demand which does not exist until they make it. Pretty savvy business sense, if you ask me. Create a need, then charge for the way to meet that need.

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Lightninghoof

12. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:08:12 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
and although I know hundreds of these threads have probably already surfaced prior to my own - this is me doing my part to push the issue.

That's the thing though: there is no issue to push. They are putting it in the game. No amount of pushing has ever made them put something in earlier than they choose to. The push was the four years of asking them to do it at all. Now that they've admitted there's demand enough to warrant it, the timing is all on them.

Not that you shouldn't make the noise, of course. I'm not trying to silence you. Just reminding you why the silence you are likely to get in response was a foregone conclusion. I'll be using the service as well, but it's not for my main so I don't feel it quite so urgently as some. I hope they get it in sooner, rather than later, but again: the demand has been acknowledged. The hard part is getting them to put something in the game. Getting them to put it in on our schedule? Impossible.

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Archimonde

13. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:16:10 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
It seems likely that they would want to wait for a time when people had a real reason (read: a new reason) to use it. For instance, on or around the time of new race/class combinations.

I would think if this were the case they would have announced it as a feature in Cataclysm or not have announced it at all yet. As someone already pointed out, the link is already on account management as coming soon, and they stated it would be right after faction changes.

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Greymane

14. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:16:30 AM PDT

So are you saying that they don't plan to release it until Cataclysm?

With all do respect, even including Shamans, Druids and Paladins, I don't think it's very smart to withhold a service that may or may not be ready for release when the demand vastly out-weighs the need or "reason"-especially when those few class/race combinations are by no means the majority. Here you have thousands, possibly millions of users ready and willing RIGHT NOW to spend money on a service that even if you charge as low as 10.00 USD or foreign equivalent, you will literally capitalize on, and even more so when Cataclysm releases when there actually is new class/race combinations and more of a "reason".

In my opinion, the demand is high enough right now and it will only grow. Release it now or as we've been informed "soon", let everyone who wants to do it, do it and if they're not happy with it, they pay you again to change back. Either way, Blizzard wins and the community gets what they want.

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Lightninghoof

15. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:19:58 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
So are you saying that they don't plan to release it until Cataclysm?

Full disclosure: Green fonted posters are not Blizzard staff, so I'm not saying what they plan at all. Just what I think would be a worthwhile consideration to them. And if I came up with the notion, you can bet that smarter people than I have also come up with it over in Irvine.

I hope they don't wait till Cataclysm. I just think it would make sense if they waited for the new combinations to implement race changes. Right now the only race change a druid can do is to the other faction, same for any Horde paladin or Alliance shaman. That's a lot of characters, don't you think? To just dismiss out of hand?

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16. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:20:43 AM PDT

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18. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:23:43 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
You're killing me Blizz...seriously....

...and I'm tired of rezing as a Draenei :(

We've been covering this pretty much every week since we said we were working on this service. It still takes some work and testing and bug fixing to get a new service live even if it sounds like something that should be done overnight. Also remember that providing this service is not the only thing we are working on. ;-)

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19. Re: Why are we still waiting for race changes 10/06/2009 11:25:31 AM PDT

Q u o t e:
Why are we still waiting for race changes...?

Because, they are not in the game yet.

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