They knew multiple patches in advance what Alliance players were asking for, and what they were not. You can say it wasn’t a fact, but reading the room is probably a good talent for Blizzard to have.
I’m not saying deny gnome fans their race. I’m saying that if we’re talking about whether Alliance players (broadly) are feeling cheated by their lineup compared to what the Horde got, Blizzard should damn well pay attention to that rather than just ignoring criticisms that had existed the entire expansion, not just 8.3.
Actually I can. I’m well within my rights to praise or criticize ‘creative choices’ based on whether they were good.
And once again, it’s not a crime to expect developers to give some degree of attention towards things people actually want. You can talk about the glories of creative freedom all you want, but at the end of the day they’re running a business and the customer’s opinions should matter.
In fact, if you want to see the result of ‘creative freedom’ in the absence of attending to player desires, look no further than the reception of these last two expansions. Ignoring the playerbase is going wonderfully.
Don’t. The whole idea of ARs is that they’ve taken existing races and tweaked them a bit, gave them different names, added a quest bit and there you go, “new allied race” that’s not new at all.
Highmountain Tauren could have just been done in the barbershop. Nightborne are skinny NEs.
Mag’har orcs are brown orcs, again the barbershop.
The only one I can think of that is sort of “new” are vulpera and they’re basically just furry goblins.
So ARs by themselves are what I call a budget addition that both alliance and horde got.
Yep. That’s what I mean by budget additions. I’m not complaining, I am stating that it’s obvious to me that the company wasn’t going to go out of their way, to save a few bucks & possibly a lot of time and talent to give the players something new and unique in an AR.
So since both horde and alliance got basically budget additions, no one should feel slighted because of faction.
Feel slighted if you want but because they cheaped out in making them.
I prefer to just ignore it. We have enough races as it is, imo.
Overall horde did much better. They got a better version of trolls and orcs, a new elf, and a new race entirely in vulpera. The moose addiction is kind of blah, since it should have been those northrend bison.
Alliance void elf, which I are my favorite elf, a decent draenei update, huge humans and then two races I have zero interest in, dark iron and mecha. Dwarfs and gnomes were never very popular and now we have more.
horde literally got some new skin tones for orcs, straight back option for trolls and tauren again. they couldnt even be bothered to give us the actual nightbone model and just did a hatchet job on the night elf player model. vulpera do feel like something new i will admit
sounds like we are pretty even doesnt it? except void elves can also be blood elves(appearance wise) so essentially the alliance got 2 elves in one
