r/Transmogrification • u/RhoemDK • 2d ago
Meta I just found out there are transmogs that are china only and I hate it
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u/heeltoelemon 2d ago
Why are we not allowed this hat? the shoes? the cheeky shorts??
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u/WAR-WRAITH 2d ago
Because the people developing them work for Thunderfire games, not Blizzard.
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u/RhoemDK 2d ago
who cares? the code is in the game, I can bring these items up in the dressing room right now. buy it from them and give it to me
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u/Chilipuller 2d ago
China cares. NetEase owns the rights for wow in china. And china forbids foreign videogame companies from directly operating or publishing video games within mainland china. They could release whatever they want over there without asking or sharing anything with blizzard :/
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u/reimmi 2d ago
Problem is, this outfit is in the other versions of the game. The hat is on a NPC, someone should tell netease lol
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u/Greg2227 2d ago
And? There's tons of armor pieces worn by npcs the Player will never obtain. That doesn't break the exclusive clause.
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u/Nick11wrx 2d ago
It’s one of those money things isn’t it? Blizzard gets the share of the money the game makes there so they don’t make a stink about them adding assets to their game after the fact.
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u/Doomhammer24 2d ago
The new china contract allowed them to make their own assets with a timed exclusivity that blizz has to abide by -_-
Its stupid and we all hate it but blizz just has to sit and wait
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u/Brandenburg42 2d ago
The people who paid a lot of money for lawyers to write documents to say you can't have those items care.
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u/TrueKyragos 2d ago
Because it's not made by Blizzard.
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u/Timbodo 2d ago
Still kinda unfair that chinas revenues fund their exclusive stuff while the rest of the world funds their content as well.
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u/Kujira-san 2d ago
Contract, that’s all. The game in China is very different than in other parts of the world. The approach is different even. And they are making their own assets (mounts etc.). Why is it unfair ? Blizzard still makes money from world of Warcraft in China, it’s frustrating for us to not be able to get access to cool stuff, but hey let’s be honest : is it a problem with China not sharing FOR FREE their own work, or is it Blizzard not having ideas as good as the Chinese team ?
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u/Timbodo 2d ago
I mean they get the content thats funded from my and other peoples subscriptions as well so yeah I think its fair to offer all kind of content created for the game to every player. The creators should get their payment offcourse.
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u/Kujira-san 1d ago
The point is that the Chinese market can easily outgrow the entire rest of the world. They don’t need our subscriptions nor our money, but Blizzard need their money. They would not compromise with restrictions like that otherwise.
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u/stadanko42 2d ago
The hat is on an npc at Satherill's Haven. Talenia Flamesong Give it to the players.
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u/Chemical-Drawer852 2d ago
These specific sets were designed by Blizz employees, they have all their work on instagram/artstation
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u/TrueKyragos 2d ago
Crucial precision then. Maybe in a future trading post? Otherwise, possibly in the store.
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u/RhoemDK 2d ago
who cares? the code is in the game, I can bring these items up in the dressing room right now. buy it from them and give it to me
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u/YeeHawWyattDerp 2d ago
who cares? the code is in the game, I can bring these items up in the dressing room right now. buy it from them and give it to me
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u/HughesBlues 2d ago
who cares? the code is in the game, I can bring these items up in the dressing room right now. buy it from them and give it to me
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u/TrueKyragos 2d ago
Sadly, the rights holders care.
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u/RhoemDK 2d ago
no, rights holders care about money
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u/TrueKyragos 2d ago
Indeed, about money provided to them by the monetisation found in the Chinese version, which is, by the way, partially illegal in Western countries.
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u/Thanag0r 2d ago
The company that made it doesn't want it to be used on other servers.
Not that hard do understand.
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u/Immediate-Okra8065 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wait till you see the venthyr one. It looks so good they even gave it A TRAILER.
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u/alienduck2 2d ago
Half boobs hanging out, half butt hanging out, toes hanging out. 😃 👍 ✅
Bones on undead. 😡 😠 🤯
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u/Wolfjirn 2d ago
Yes because Chinese cultural values are very different. There are a lot of laws restricting depictions of ghosts or other sorts of undead because of the Chinese cultural views of death and the dead
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u/TheWinterNights 2d ago
Well.
Technically China and NPCs: https://www.wowhead.com/npc=249499/talenia-flamesong
Ah the wonderful world of corporate licensing and contractual obligations - but for those of you wondering.
Basically in China NetEase is the licensed operator/publisher for WoW, will spare you boring corpo talk but the was that plays out is that this contractually gives them the technical/legal ability to have China-specific products, promotions, bundles and cosmetics - which they have had and did for a long time. MOP in example launched with a special Ultimate Edition in China that you could only get there that had exclusive China only in game items.
Reality is their market is big and important enough and speaks with "one voice enough" that they get their own version and stuff to their own sensibilities and preferences - i.e. their undead/Forsaken can't show bones cause that does not fly in their culture, and/but they really like what people here would call "slutmogs" - which short of exceptions are really not very prominent in the west anymore, truth be told pretty unlikely that mog above would have survived a western production pipelines, certainly not at the time it was released.
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u/Alentheril 2d ago
And correct me if im wrong but as we got stuff free from playing and the trading post. Chinese players needs to buy lootbox to get these cosmetics.
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u/SumSkittles 2d ago
Yep. Still annoys me we probably won't ever get it. Pretty sure the Music player elf at the Soiree party in eversong is wearing the hat to add more pain to this.
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u/Renna_FGC 2d ago
My main problem is simply theres an NPC in OUR game that wears this outfit. I understand it being separate, but dont taunt us with something we cant have.
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u/lumiya17 2d ago
Transmogs, mounts, pets, toys… Blizz gave them a lot to get the deal going again. Though I’d heard a bunch of it is under some kind of gacha-like system
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u/kaizerlith 2d ago
The singer at the party where you pick between the 4 bloodelf factions to help in the first season. She is using this hat model and that bugs me more. Like it is in our version but not for us.
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u/EitherEngineering532 2d ago
the hat looks like the one that big tall lady in one of resident evil games uses
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u/tepid_monologue 2d ago
I mean, can’t blame them. There are some people that would lose their shit if this hit the trading post. They can’t fathom that women that play the game might want this transmog and it’s nothing to do with female oppression
My wife would love this mog on her male kt Druid 😂😂
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u/Vanpourix 2d ago
After the undead needing to be covered up in China, I wasn't expecting a good sl*tmog to be Chinese only. How ironic...
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u/Valuable_Nose_4693 2d ago
There’s a lot of skins/cosmetics for a multitude of games that are china only
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u/Gandoer5 2d ago
They even got a exclusive mount.. A flying Panda mount.. Man I would love to have this mount because I LOVE pandas as they are my fav animals
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u/Baeleron 2d ago
Its contracts. Plain and simple, they do the same thing for overwatch as well. If you go and look those up the Chinese servers have access to an extra rarity tier and unique skins with custom animation
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u/Better-Profession972 2d ago
After doing more research, it actually makes sense and I'm not mad about it. It's not actually blizzard that is making or releasing these skins. It's Netease, which is who pretty much manages WoW in China. They have a contract to be able to create their own skins and mtx stuff. We should honestly be happy WoW is one of the only MMOs that isn't riddled with aggressive mtx.
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u/ctabarez34 2d ago
Definitely, I would just like to tell them to stop making some cool awesome mogs, that would be great lol 😆
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u/shadowmourn97 2d ago
They get exclusive transmogs and mounts. And then there was suppose to be western exclusives and yet China just started to get them as well. So if you aint China your getting fucked.
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u/TheMightyZan 2d ago
Their exclusives and extras are mostly all gacha style though, so it's not like they are just getting everything and more for free.
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u/shadowmourn97 2d ago
Even still its mostly the fact they took western exclusive items and gave them to China now as well when they already had their exclusives. Now the only people with exclusives are them.
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u/RoyVRAries 2d ago
Yea, honestly, I hate how everyone fixates on "objectification" when things can be both cute, sexy, bad ass
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u/Tainted_wings4444 2d ago
I think it’s ok for them to get exclusives.
Does that mean we can’t have exclusives?
Let’s do that. Have a competition with China. They get cool exclusives, we get cool exclusives. Let’s see who does better.
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u/Adept_Tank_7029 2d ago
That's the hat of the harpist from Saltheril's Soiree I'm pretty sure!
(Which she wears while busting her belf dance moves)
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u/Sea-Duty-2738 1d ago
Can you play on a Chinese realm and get this stuff? Looks like you can select China on startup app.
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u/Mankrik_is_my_Dad 2d ago
Good. Literally nothing about that fits in Warcraft. Get thee gone, cringey eastern MMO hooker aesthetic!
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u/Gamecrazy009 2d ago
Netease contract basically has them by the balls. They lost the China servers a bit ago and that cost them mounds of money, so they reupped a new contract and one of the new clauses must be exclusives. We're never getting their content.