No, they weren’t. The topics are infamous of the harassment people received for asking for High Elves. “You are no true Blood Elf because you look like a grape ” was one of the arguments until the goal post moved and the tables have turned. You could witness all five stages of grief the past weeks.
This happens when you mock your paying audience, the grudge was for four years real. And it didn’t help that Ion said “the Horde is waiting for you”, a constant reminder of your faction’s inferiority in every game mode.
we need to sneak a blood elf in there and let them plant containers of concentrated light energy and after they leave they blow it up turning telogrus into a wonderful green hue of fel energy.
their most powerful beings of void literally take a form that doesn’t exist on the regular plane of existence and they just be douchebags and whisper everyone telling them to kill people.
How many players ever SEE Telogrus? Sure you get your void armor there but there’s nothing else to even do there. I rolled a void elf, was ready to see a cool starting area, and all I got was a flyover of an area where I had nothing to do other than walk through a portal to SW. That is not a faction city.
Faction cities have auction houses, banks, vendors, trainers, inns, portals… Telogrus doesn’t even count as a quest hub.
Home areas in the game are meaningless if there’s nothing to do there and no players there because there is literally no reason at all to set foot there. Maybe some RPers have gone there, but I can’t imagine anyone else has bothered.
So given your argument, I’ll clarify: They have no faction city at all and no functional, meaningful home area in the game.
The brokers chart seems to be more accurate then the Titans.
Light cannot live without the Void and Void can’t live with out the Light. Chaos, Order, Life and Death can’t exist with out Light or Void because those are primary colors.
I’m happy this got squashed. You can’t just make a legitimate new “race” within less than a year (ingame timeline) it’s silly.
Legitimate new “races” take hundreds or thousands of years over time to develop their own seperate physical traits, languages, culture, & etcetera.
Void Elves got infused with some void energy as a new power source, but it’s not like their brain got wiped. Culturally and physiologically, they’re still Blood Elves (High Elves), they even still speak Thalassian.
I like to think of the “Ren’dorei” name as just something they took on as an identity to embrace their new path in life, much like the Blood Elves took on “Sin’dorei” and stopped calling themselves High Elves in honor of their fallen brethren.
Over a long period of times Void Elves will most likely develop their own culture, the language will begin to change, and they may begin to physically look different, but for now the timeline of them going from Blood to Void is too short to justify them being an actual “new race.”
Right now Void Elves are just playable Alliance High Elves, just as the Blood Elves are playable Horde High Elves.
On the faction city angle, you’ll be shocked, but I completely agree with you! I find it a disappointment. For example, Trolls and Gnomes were promised faction cities finally. They got super-disappointing lv5 quest hubs.
However, there are Troll areas in the game and there are Gnome areas in the game. They’re not friendly to player habitation, but they’re there and there are objectives to complete in them. Void elves? Nada.
I am equally disappointed Blizzard keeps forcing players into nothing but Stormwind or Orgrimmar. I’m very tired of SW and Org and nothing else. I know why they’re doing it – decreasing player numbers mean if players spread out the world looks less full of people, so you have to get them to jam themselves all into one place so at least that one place looks busy – but I still find it irritating. More irritating that they feel the need to remove two of the few functional cities they had to further force the issue.
The point still remains, void elves never had either a faction city or functional homelands, inhabitable by players or otherwise.
I don’t think making design decisions that we disagree with would ever be considered “disrespectful.” They’ve done a lot to placate high elf fan requests with the void elves lately, but if they don’t want to make a brand new “high elf allied race” distinct from the others, I think that’s their call to make.
