[align=left]I'm surprised to mainly see positive responses to this change...

I myself balked at the mention of this. I'm in no way a roleplayer but Blizzard always said this would never happen, it would be against the spirit of the game blahblahblah. I really feel that the financial department is running the show these days and not the actual people who create content like when it just started.

Every day we play we look at models that are more then a year (sometimes even more) old, but yet they spend resources and time on stuff that doesn't improve actual gameplay or the experience in any way. The only recent achievement is Yogg, which turned out awesome, the rest is close to crap however. The new raid/instance we're getting is, again, filled with old shit models. It's getting a tad annoying ;p "Oh great! we can finally fight a boss we've been killing for years already, he just looks green now..."

This is just one more on the list of "how to make money without actually doing something".

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