The Bitching continues about tier 9 armor models

Man srsly what do you want from the new armor set designs? I mean yes, i spose they could be slightly more original, but could they really i mean were saying they don't look original because there basing them slightly on the older armor sets that they created. So Give them a break man! :P. If you want to see a preview of the new armor sets have a look here.

Here is a comment and a follow up response from blizzard in the official blizzard forums:

Quote (Discobiscuit):
I'd really like a response from blizzard about why they put so little effort into the new tier9. It sucks and there was a thread 146 pages long from people who were upset about it. Did blizzard ever respond? Nope. They just quietly locked the thread and pretended everything was fine. (you've lost my respect blizz. that was low) It's tier9, not some half effort pvp set.

Response (Nathaera):
This is going to be a tough one to clear up with you in a way that you're going to accept. First off, I can't say that "complaints"

don't fall on deaf ears, because that may be true, but not in the way you think. Constructive feedback is very very welcome. Complaints don't equate to constructive feedback though and don't open the door for constructive discussion.

We've addressed Tier 9 several times now. We posted about what we had in store here as well when we did the initial preview- http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/tier9.html

In general, when we explain our design philosophy and why we do what we do, we get a lot of responses of the sort that call for more people to be put to work on designing these sorts of things, but throwing more people at something does not increase the ease of creating them. These take a lot of time and collaboration.

In this case, like all of our armor sets, we have set resources to apply to creating new armor sets that we must work within. This does not change with each new set, but remains the same. I'm sure to some, this may seem too limiting, but we work within these constraints so that the art team can also continue to work on the many other projects they have on their plate, while still continuing to put out quality designs (whether you may believe they are quality or not.) Increasing the demand on them for these will not aid them in all of their other tasks.

That said, these new armor sets are much more focused on creating a visual division between what is representative of the Horde and what is representative of the Alliance who are obviously still at odds with each* other despite the best efforts of the Argent Crusade to bring them together. (*See Isle of Conquest)

We're not pretending anything, but we are continuing to moderate and direct discussions into more productive topics. I'll leave this topic open for now with the caveat that should it devolve into non-constructive discussion, I will close it. The armor sets are what they are whether they are your favorite or least favorite. The work that went into these was not diminished, nor were the resources for them compared to other sets. Please refrain from any further degradations of the art team or Blizzard employees and their work.

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