Darigan wrote:What changed with the customization that make you hate so much the new Poogle?
Erm.. are you sure you want to hear all this? It'll be lengthy.
First you need to understand my level of obsession with poogles. There are a lot of pets I like (both here and on subeta) but white poogle was miles above any other for me (pre-customization one still is). First thing I did when I was frozen over a year ago was to get one and paint it white again.
Now observe:
The new one lost a neck and instead they made the neck area its chin - for me it now looks like a barbie doll whose neck you broke accidentally so you pushed its head lower down to keep it on (who here hasn't done that ever?). The shape of the mouth changed along with shading around them (most of the shading basically disappeared) - I don't get a feeling of a round snout anymore - they now look like a mouth on a particularly dim-minded flat faced human. Also the eyes went down in quality a lot - particularly on white poogle. Here's the full sized image of new one's:
These changes don't appear much to a casual observer perhaps but all together to me they mean a world of difference. I always thought of Shroomy's poogle as a little masterpiece of symmetry and proportion but the new one lost that for me. It just looks like a grotesque distortion of something I loved.
Ok, all of this will possibly make very little sense to someone who didn't gaze adoringly at the old white poogle daily for two years but then again you asked for it :P