Barber Shops

[Blackpanties 0]

***Disclaimer: I just saw the pinned staff post discouraging suggestions about Character Appearance change, but I was thinking that as this post merely suggests the ability to change character hair, as opposed to a full appearance overhaul, it might be okay.

Dear Elysium Staff,

Myself, and a growing number of players are dissatisfied with the appearance of their characters as they were created some months ago. We would be very interested to see in-game Barber Shops, or an equivalent out-of-game feature made available to the community, and feel that such a feature allowing for minor aesthetic changes would in no way affect the integrity of the Vanilla WoW experience.

Perhaps this feature could be made available only to donors, to encourage support for and overall growth of the Elysium Project.

We understand you guys are a very busy team, and must have a lot on your plate, but if the time could be found to implement such a feature, we would be infinitely grateful.

Thank you for all you do,

-Blackpanties

Alliance, Elysium Server

[Blackpanties 0]

Most of the backlash I've received so far (mostly on Facebook) frames this discussion as a blizzlike vs. non-blizzlike issue, a pure or unpure issue, as if this is a suggestion to allow faction changes or race changes- in my view, unnecessarily elevating the consequence of this proposed change. Does anyone actually believe that the ability for a few people on the server to change their character's hair cut would adversely affect the integrity of their Vanilla WoW experience? This comes across as irrationally conservative- arguing for purity for purity's sake. And if this is really such a unanimous and intensely believed principle, where was this backlash to the proposed Respec Cost Reduction, a change that actually had a material effect on the game's economy, and thus *every* player's experience?

I've also heard arguments such as "Barber Shops are the first step in the evolution to Transmog". This is a by-the-book slippery slope argument implying that any quality of life change at all sets in motion an irrevocable watering down process, as if we, as a community, don't have the power to arbitrarily stop it. And again, if this potential slippery slope is so daunting, why was no one evoking this argument when Respec costs were reduced? Is that measure not the first step in the evolution to Dual Spec? Where is the consistency? And why the feverish fear of *any* change, no matter how minute?

Old School Runescape has set the standard for Vanilla games by surpassing the popularity of its game's current version specifically because they have a system that allows players to suggest changes to the original game. The majority of these changes have taken the form of minor quality of life improvements, that in no way effect the overall difficulty or feel of the gameplay, such as a Barber Shop wouldn't. To viscerally attack and recoil to any proposed change to Vanilla WoW is, to me, to resign oneself to the inevitability of the game's dwindling into irrelevancy, outmoded and unadaptive. I dream, for example, of a day when Arenas are available in Vanilla- but that's for another time. 

[jcochran 1]

IMHO, the boundary between "Blizzlike" and "not Blizzlike" is kinda irrelevant for a barber shop. The real question is "Does the 1.12 client have the capability of supporting a barber shop?" And IMHO, the answer is "No". I think the easiest way to get a barber shop like capability would be to abuse the new character creation screen. Basically, create a new character, then overwrite the appearance of the old character using the new character's appearance. Then delete the new character..

 

[Alretay 0]

Just because of this , I create a bald character. :)

[flowqz 34]

how about you stop suggestion nonblizzlike bullshit noone really needs.

as if they would invest time to create such nonsense.

[Guest]

No, this is a non-Blizzlike feature for a Vanilla WoW server.