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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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For a live service game you are generally planning things out in advance. There was only a 2.5ish year gap between the release of classic and Luclin.
The development team will know what the road map to Luclin is long before it actually comes out. Back then we were in the graphics wars, where every game wanted to look more and more realistic. I wouldn't be surprised at all if graphics improvements were being planned from the start. If they knew they were going to update the character models in the near future anyway, they would de-prioritize maintaining the existing models that are going to get replaced.
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I'm mainly going off of first-hand testimony by members of the original dev team on that alovingrobot guy's youtube channel (
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFl...PYUeicLmhSvB1Q). Many have said they didn't even expect the initial success, much less making one and then another expansion. And then a *third* expansion on top of the first two, which is when the models finally changed to the horrid luclin versions.
Brad didn't like that the chicks' asses didn't stick out as much when they stand up straight like the male models do. I'm tellin you, that is definitely the reason. I mean I think they even said in one of those podcasts the artists were using pictures of underwear models for the female dark elves. These men were shameful perverts.