I think that while this is awesome, some of the pet art really lets it down. The poses I can live with as those are what makes it easy to use the same clothes for all of one species. However, some of the attention to detail, or rather lack of it, is a bit worrying. Some species look rather primitive compared to others, for example the wocky and lupe look like painfully old art while the lutari and pteri just don't look like they could exist without their misshapen skeletons crushing their organs to death.
My other complaints are mainly things that hopefully will be sorted as this progresses through beta - namely, some pets not having clothing options, and the errors that some clothing items bring - but I don't see anywhere to actually report such bugs and requests.
My favourite aspect of this is the ability to take clothes off as well as put them on. Robot pets perhaps best illustrate this but the ability to take the ear bands off of an
usul is just as appreciated. I also greatly appreciate TNT letting us all try this out rather than having to rely on premium people showing screen shots. Being able to play with it pre-release is lovely.
I would like to see more information about the implementation plans of this - how do we get said clothes and how affordable will they be, will this mess with current prices and inflation of current items, and is the quick ref page going to insist on displaying our pets in flash rather than a fast loading gif? Will we have the option on where to display this for every display option?
But mostly I would like to know if
Denegor and
Trethys are going to be stuck looking like that if I want to customise them, and if clean up art of the species in general that are getting criticism across the board is possible.