Blizzard, do you regret making Void Elves?

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It seems to me that void elves, specifically our origins, have caused a lot of issues.

Namely, because we are nothing more than corrupted blood elves (also known as high elves), it’s been argued we should have all the same options for customization

On top of this, as we joined the alliance, it begs the question; Why can’t other races leave the horde and join the alliance? Yes we already had Alleria to vouch for us, but this is flimsy at best.

Most of us were probably horde for years given how long elves live. We’ve probably killed family members of the people we’re now fighting beside

So why can’t other races leave the horde and join the alliance? All you need is someone to say “Yep they’re good!” And you’re in. All your past transgressions against the alliance tossed to the side and forgotten

This race as a whole seems like a giant contradiction to everything we’ve seen over the years

The concept of blue eyed elves could’ve been added from anywhere. This game has a lot of options. We could’ve been silver covenant elves made playable. It would’ve been more believable as they’ve been with the alliance forever. Maybe Vareesa saw just how destructive and chaotic Sylvanas had become as warchief and decided to get involved in the war to help stop her?

You could’ve made an entirely new elven race that just happened to look like high elves. Highborne maybe?

It just seems to me that void elves are pandora’s box in a sense. Once we were unleashed it’s too late to take it back, or to deny us as being high elves. Too late to claim blood elves can’t just up and leave the horde whenever they feel like it and become alliance (there’s silvermoon elves in telogrus rift atm so this has already happened)

The whole Blood Elf/Void Elf/High Elf argument seems like it’s been a giant source of contention for players ever since our introduction.

So, do you regret making void elves?

(Just to clarify, I’ve never really had a dog in the blood elf/void elf/high elf argument. I do play one, but only because I’m a shadow priest and it fits so very well. This post is just my observations about how Blizzard tried to make a high elf knock off, and has now had to backtrack to make us basically high elves that would’ve.made more sense from the start, and I am curious about blizzards opinion on the subject)

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Blizzard (counting money): Regret what now?

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No other races are legacy Alliance races that literally belong with the blue faction in the same way High Elves do.

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Only I specifically know exactly what their design was based off of, but still question why. I assume the art team themselves was attempting to troll a specific player.

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Highly doubt it man. Look at how popular they are. With the change in requirements and customisations they’ll be even more popular.

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Void Elves entire existence makes no sense logically. If I was a game designer making a race I wanted to put into the Alliance. I’d say okay people want High Elves, but Blood Elves already look exactly like them so we need to differentiate them somehow. Let’s say they get empowered by the void to make them different cosmetically. Vareesa and Alleria are already there so theres no need for some convoluted plot about Blood Elves getting involved when they already have the Sunwell.

Logically it makes no sense to make things that way. You’d go for the simplest solution, use the Silver Covenant, the existing High Elves under Vareesa. But they went for the more contrived solution in order to make it so Blood Elves came over from the Horde.

From my perspective that implies to me it’s an emotional decision based on Ions comments that “Blood Elves are High Elves” which to me suggested that he was implying “Blood Elves are the TRUE High Elf faction”

Take that as what you will but after thinking about for a while thats the conclusion I came to.

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I think they do regret it because all Void Elves have done is prompt endless complaining and demands.

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Forsaken are literally just Lordaeron humans that have died. No reason they can’t be Alliance except for the “No uglies allowed” rule that prevented them previously.

And since VEs have forgotten the betrayal of their people by the Alliance, it seems okay for the Forsaken to forget the very same betrayal if they want to go blue.

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Its not a regret at all when its helping a crippling faction. Should be happy they exist imo.

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They should regret all legion allied races and their poor handling but that is besides the point.

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I seem fine with Void elves the yway the are.

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They won’t answer you.

But personally, I think theyre a bad fan fic race.

An embarrassment to lore and now something they have to backpedal to correct.

And it’s also embarrassing they tried SO HARD to deny high elves on the alliance…

Especially when they are literally in the Quest line outside orgrimmar With the other SW forces to oust sylvanas before the mok’gorra.

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They’re undead.
To the living, they’re the exact same thing that pretty much threatens life itself, and frankly, as a former hardcore Forsaken main, they live up to that mantra.

Blood Elves actually joining up with the same people that destroyed their kingdom technically, and “used them” in the past makes little sense.

The current Alliance isn’t Lordaeron.

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It’s one thing if they were always silver covenant elves. But void elves were literally horde blood elves

We were alliance enemies and they just took us in like nothing was wrong with that because Alleria said we were chill

This is what I meant. The race seemed cool at the start, but we’re so close to high elves that they’ve now had to make us look the same. And now there’s still complaining that we can’t have the exact same looks

It just seems like a pandora’s box to me. They opened it and now they can’t close it or take it back

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They just wanted to give Horde a ‘pretty’ race.

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It’s deserved, alliance is a dying faction that gets constantly neglected. Void elves are the only thing keeping the faction alive.

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no it’s not lol

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Well it’s also because alliance said “We want high elves”

And Blizz was like “Oh here’s some purple generic elves we found”

It wasn’t what anyone asked for, and the complaints I think will continue until they just make us high elves.

Even after the customizations become the same, I think people will ask for a change to void elf tooltips to make it show “High Elf” as the race

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I like the void elves, I just wish they were Horde. I would trade nightborne for void elves in a heartbeat.
Doing it that way would probably make the most sense, to be honest. With the Alliance you often see people who are believers of the Light. “Light be with you” is a phrase you commonly hear from the humans, so that’s sort of an indication of what they base their beliefs off of.
The nightborne would’ve been a chance for the Alliance to help out a race that had its own addiction problems, just like the blood elves did on the Horde. And what more of a fitting race than the night elves to be the mentors of the nightborne? Night elves originally outlawed the use of arcane magic, thus exiling the high elves, who thought that refusing arcane power was cowardice. Blood elves learned it the hard way.
But this would’ve been the perfect opportunity for the Alliance to step up and help out a race with its problems.

Void elves could’ve easily been a sub-race of the Horde, just like highmountain tauren and zandalari trolls. They don’t exactly get the warmest welcome in the Stormwind church, so they already feel like they don’t belong. All they had to do was keep void elves away from the Sunwell - that’s all.
It would make a perfect theme of: Alliance - Light, Horde - Void.

But of course, Blizzard usually has to make compromises in order to make at least part of the community happy, so they gave the Alliance the long-awaited “blood elf” model and gave the Horde the night elf model in exchange. That’s it. I don’t think they regret making void elves at all. In the end, both sides are somewhat happy, and now there are more people playing Alliance for void elves including myself. Sadly, we still get the high elf fans complaining about not getting exactly what they want, despite Blizzard making compromise after compromise with character customizations.

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Well too late for them to take it back they never should have made them.

I hope they love getting complaints from both the angry people who are mad that Hordes race was stolen

And the people who aren’t satisfied because they don’t have every customization and classes Blood elves have.