I was curious and found images of the new models here:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=108004
There are comments by Absor indicating when these go live, there will no longer be older models available... in other words, this is what you get, no options.
AbsorEQ " I can promise that it's very unlikely that old models will remain when the new ones are put in."
I'm not even going to comment on this kind of attitude from EQ developers, it is just too typical. I will say that being no fan of most of the luclin character models, these don't seem any worse. I feel players identify with what they are accustomed to looking at. If you prefer the luclin (or pre-luclin) models you should have the option of keeping them. To force something like this on a player base is just wrong. If they had forced luclin models on me back in the day, it would have just pushed me a little faster out the door.
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