Berserker wrote:I didn't even notice the lack of tail. I was too excited to notice I guess!
Admittedly, me too! At least, at first and for quite a while...
As for feedback, that's not something I can do because I'm not subscribed at the moment (I'll come back to that later in this post), and I'm not going to be until Cataclysm arrives, and I'll resubscribe again when I have the expansion.
However, there is a growing thread about it on the official forums, and the general consensus is that tails should be added as a counterbalance because the critters look far too top heavy (people have actually agreed with me on this, yay!) to not have a tail. There have been some idiots who've been clamouring to keep Worgen tailless, but they haven't had very good reasons.
Thus far, just two (that aren't baseless 'no tails please' or 'no tails for the furries') arguments have arisen and they're pretty bloody stupid.
- "Arugal's Worgen don't have tails, why should these?!"
The Gilneas Worgen gift comes from a different timeframe to Arugal's "children", their condition comes from a time before the gift was turned into a curse, and that much is obvious by looking at them, they look more like Wolves than the mobs wandering around the darker parts of the Eastern Kingdoms (which don't look very Wolf-like at all).
If they look different than those Worgen, then a tail might simply be another one of those differences. I do wish I could point this out on the official forums, but I can't.
- "This upsets the class balance aesthetic!"
This was a real facepalm moment for me, apparently having two races with tails on the Alliance side is going to completely upset the race/class balance, because there'll be two races with tails on the Alliance side. That sounds like pure idiocy to me, because let's consider...
1) The Horde only has one short race, the Alliance has two.
2) None of the Alliance races have tusks, two Horde races do.
3) The Horde has many more races with unearthly skin colours.
...I could go on, but I won't.
There's really no balance between the aesthetics of the classes, and I wish I could point that out too, but alas...
Anyway, that aside, the general consensus is for tails, so tails will probably be added. If they aren't, then tails can easily be modded in. It won't be a trivial process, but it is entirely possible. So I hope that'll happen at least if Blizzard doesn't add tails to them, because they're going to look
really weird without them.
Watch the gameplay videos on 'Dude, Where's my Worgen?' and you'll see what I mean, without something weighing them down on the back, they look like they're going to thud-forward at any moment. And if Blizz plans on having them run on all foursr to remedy this top heaviness (that'd be awesome!), then a tail is goinig to matter more than ever.
So you can pass on my concerns if you like, Berserker, but I won't be resubscribing just yet. I'm not going to pay a month's subscription just to air my views.
As for why I left in the first place, I was tired of the game as it was, a little too raid heavy, without a single breath of life breathed into the old content (that'll thankfully change with Cataclysm), and because of my ocular disabilities, I wasn't too much use in anything over a 5-man raid so I ended up spending most of my time developing addons, and this was a very thankless and stressful job (bloody ingrates).
And I wasn't really willing to pay to do a job.
I'm planning on playing when I return, I won't be developing, but in order to actually be able to really play it, I want to wait for the new content in the old lands.
