The World of Warcraft message boards are ablaze after a new patch from Blizzard has done something rather interesting: it’s taken all the dark-skinned characters and turned them white. You can certainly try to make you character darker, but it’s not going to work.

As you might expect, this did not make gamers very happy. Blizzard was quickly bombarded with all manner of accusations, but in a statement they have insisted that it is purely an innocent mistake that will soon be corrected:

“We introduced new character models with today's patch and ran into a bug where some of our new HD textures are appearing too light when the lighting hits them at certain angles. We're working on an update for that and will get it implemented as quickly as possible. We also have a similar issue with Worgen skin options, but it's based on a different bug. Worgen customization options are linked between each form (Human and Worgen), and we found an error in how we numbered the texture files used to set which skin tones are linked between them. This means that some Worgen players out there are seeing a pretty stark mismatch, which is due to the game simply pointing at the wrong texture file. We're in the process of working on a patch to address this issue as well, and we expect that to go out as soon as tomorrow.”

Rest easy, WoW fans. Help is on the way.

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[via Kotaku]