Actually, it is only a technical reason. DX9 had a bone limit that greatly restricted the ability to animate the characters. While they did have capes early in development, and apparently some of that
If they actually did understand they would know that the only way capes can be added without adding to known server load issues if for the capes to be stapled to our butts. Zos really does not want h
Whether we want Capes or not, they can't be part of this game. The devs have stated that the capes that people will want to have will cause the game to slow to a crawl when multiple players are on scr
It is a factual statement, the game engine does not support something like cloaks and capes. It has nothing to do with the age of the engine, but how it was written.
ZoS has said capes won't work and looking at some of the long hair styles I am inclined to believe them. We may want capes but if we got them I doubt anybody would be happy with the way they look. We