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On 16/10/2014 4:49 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> Curious what others think of them! I've gone over my main server
> characters, two accounts so 22 total. Six weren't affected, leaving
> 16, and the hitrate isn't good, considering Blizzard repeatedly said
> they're supposed to feel like "our characters but better"
> (paraphrasing).
>
> Like a lot: troll male x2, UD male, dwarf male, draenei female
>
> Although draenei female's eyes are wrong, I've got used to those one
> beta by now. Troll and dwarf run animation is a bit bad, too.
>
> Like, but it's not my character: troll female x3, tauren male
>
> Actually, I love the troll female faces, they're awesome, if slightly
> different to before! My favourite hairstyle looks awful now though,
> and while my next favourite is unscathed, it feels wrong at present,
> need to get used to it. Tauren is unrecognisable but a trip to the
> barber shop made him look good, just not "my" character.
>
> Don't like, but can put up with: nelf female, human female
>
> Nelf female looks male now, human female has way too high eyebrows and
> a ditzy look on her face.
>
> Really don't like: Human male x2, dwarf female x2, orc male
>
> A bit surprised by the orc, as they are much improved models, but then
> I've never really liked orcs; I just can't get any face to look right.
> Dwarf females look stoned and very fat-faced, frankly they make me
> think of hozen. Human, urgh, my first main is just so far from what he
> used to be. I had hopes of saving my other human, as he'd always had a
> good moustache/beard which would hide some of the face... well I
> hadn't realised how truly awful the facial hair options look. Bleh.
> All five of these can only be saved by racechanging/rerolling :-(
>
>
> So, only 1/3 live up to "my" characters but "better". Just over 1.2
> are "better", if I take time to get used to them, while 1/3 are so bad
> I just want to bin them. That's a massive letdown, I'd really expected
> better than that, even knowing how had one or two of the models were.
> I'm just glad I didn't have a gnome female, or the hitrate would've
> been even worse...
Human males suck, which means all my characters suck.
We are used to exaggerated cartoon characters, in this game and elsewhere.
The closer they try to get to anything like real human the more they run 
into creepy response.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley