Point being, while there were somewhat decent numbers they were far beyond any other AR, and even outnumbered a few core races. They have a pretty good headstart, and to just assert that they’ve been eclipsed by a cute race with poor racials and while cute also furry so there’s probably as many people who hate them as like them is a bit premature.
(Commentary): Unit Exacitor’s money is on the Venthyr. A Vampire race is going to be VERY popular.
(Observation): This applies to Void Elves as well. There’s lots of people who love them and hate them equally. It didn’t stop them from being popular. There’s also no denying that the Vulpera are popular. Thanks to that, the Horde has benefitted from an activity boost from players leveling and playing Vulpera. The Alliance, meanwhile, has floundered, since our new race, Mechagnomes, is immensely unpopular. Alliance players aren’t leveling Mechagnomes. They’ve hit the pre-expansion lull and just stopped.
Assertions made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Last one is blue
Blizzard clearly pointed out top one is ve blue and bottom is be blue.
Check the bluepost
I don’t think higher-ups get involved in tiny details of game management, which is what blue eyes are. They only seem to get involved when mass numbers of players start unsubscribing. And even then, the current team appears to have full teflon armor.
A lot of people left the game in BfA. Fixes have been band-aids, for the most part. People keep leaving.
Shadowlands will be full of systems and features that are going to rub a lot of players the wrong way.
Anecdotal evidence isn’t necessarily dishonest, it’s just rarely sufficient on its own to describe the truth of something. It can be used to support some forms of argument, particularly when that argument is already backed by hard evidence.
And the data’s not that old in this context. Vulpera were released months ago, while Void Elves were released in a previous expansion and proved so popular that they were nipping at the heels of a core race to become the third most populous Alliance race. Again, possible Vulpera have overtaken Void Elves at 120, but not probable given the population required to do so.
I’m not arguing that Vulpera aren’t popular, or that Alliance allied races haven’t been disappointing in BFA.
People who didn’t understand how it worked. It wasn’t perfect, but it was significantly more accurate than anything we have left.
I think it’s come down to people nitpicking the shade of blue… 
While the third looks pretty blue in the teaser… all the current alpha “blue” eye options look more cyan like the middle eyes depicted in the teaser. That might change though, alpha being alpha.
It’s blue to me, blizzard calls it blue
It’s blue
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Fair enough.
I’m curious though why people put less stock in warcraftrealms census though. While it does rely on players actually using their addon to actually take the census (and do it regularly for both factions, not just once for one), it seems like it could end up being more accurate than realmpop which (if i recall correctly) relied on people using the AH to collect its data.
It’s not really clear that Blood Elves are going to get true Blue color. I hope they do but it still doesn’t look like it.
Note that these are options datamined from the Shadowlands alpha, which may be incomplete and subject to change before things go live. On last week’s announcement post, Blizzard showed both Void Elves and Blood Elves with the sapphire eye customization option, and this week, that tint is only available to Void Elves.
You might wanted to view the bluepost , from blizzard.
Not wowhead.
It clearly says that both be and ve are getting a blue eye color
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(Commentary): Approximately half a year, actually. They were released in January.
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(Commentary): They also showed fair skin tones for Void Elves, but none were in the update. I think the darker, more solidly blue options for Blood Elves just didn’t make it in during this round.
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Yes of course I read it and the Wowhead post was made AFTER the blue post you linked.
It’s NOT clear yet what the blue color options are going to be in the end for Blood Elves.
I hope so.
But considering all the contradictions I’ve seen I’m not going to believe it till we get it.
Becuase Blizzard got a new dev team. Everything bad that has happened in recent years has happened because of the new dev team.
I think once Mechagnomes, aka the kitchen sink, became playable, they figured what the hell.
That or they realized the only actual new races among the allied races were vulpera and figured what the hell.
Or they realized 10% shorter and wider humans, cyborg-gnomes, moose antlers, different skin colors, tattoos, 20% bigger elves, good posture now then more diverse human appearances in Shadowlands… they took another look at blue eyes and figured what the hell. That might be too sensible though. My money’s on board of directors/shareholders telling them just do it.
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Just like the orc population, human population, regular blood elf population, night elves, and others, have grown incredibly due to all of the player characters?
I’m pretty sure PCs aren’t canon and this statement is completely false.
To put it, the blue eyes you are seeing are just customization options, think of it as contact lenses, lore wise blood elves don’t have blue eyes and ion explained why already, this is just to make the playerbase happy and has nothing to do with the lore. If we were to go by the books, blood elves have evolved and don’t have blue eyes anymore. These blue eyes were only given to blood elves to make RPer’s happy so they can finally pretend to play as a high elf. But deep down inside, they must know it’s not really a high elf but a blood elf with fake contact blue eyes.
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