There was recently a press event held in Korea for World of Warcraft, with several people given the opportunity to play the latest version of the game, starting in either Shadowmoon Valley or Frostfire Ridge. So far, the Orc (male at least,) Dwarf (both!) and Gnome (not sure about female) are all playable in their new models.
This appears to be a far more complete version. According to MMO-Champion (where I've gotten this information,) Shadowmoon Valley apparently feels more or less finished, including a climactic event that occurs at the end of the zone's main quests (there are spoilers in that link, so beware if you're worried about ruining something for yourself.)
Additionally, there appears to be an option to toggle new and old racial models. So if you can't stand the new ones for some reason, you can revert to the old ones. While we'll have to wait and see if this goes live, I think this is a great way of swiping away any complaints people might have about the character revamps.
As of yet, it does still appear that there is only one facial option per new model, but I fully expect this will be fixed. Given that they don't seem to be offering recustomizations (at least that's the plan right now,) I think that at the very least we can expect that Blizzard will give us updated versions of each of the current face options.
In the linked videos (and if you're like me, try to suppress how much it bothers you that the person playing is just randomly hitting various abilities and choosing talents at random. They must have had limited time, or something) we get glimpses of the siege of Karabor, where the Alliance hero is accompanied by a Draenei Paladin named Y'rel, who we've been told will be a central figure. The Horde character meets up with our Thrall and alternate-universe Drek'thar and goes to meet with Durotan, but I don't remember seeing much else that was all that exciting. Most notable thing about the Horde video is that Thrall is back in the old black doomplate.
Anyway, I think that we can expect a lot of new information over the next few days or even hours. Likewise, this bodes well for an oncoming Beta. Bring it on, Blizzard!
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