You mean like Drow in Dungeons and Dragons, or Dunmer in Elder Scrolls Online, or Dark Elves in Lineage II?
You straight up just described how plenty of video games (and fantasy settings, in general) iterate their “Dark Elves”.
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Is an off the cuff statement about a topic more complicated than “All Blood Elves are High Elves”, from someone notoriously Horde centric, not skewed?
Especially from what we’ve been shown in game since TBC even?
And Various others do.
"We’re listening to AR requests now"
"Anything is possible in the future"
So if anything, both sides are moot points.
The casuals does not mean your casuals. In that instance, do you consider yourself a casual then Konkka?
Not to this thread i’m sure, but others are, and those are who i was reffering too, but i guess English is hard sometimes 
It is when you angry post about it 6 times.
Even switching to an Alt 
Guys, let’s try to refrain from ad hominem attacks. It’s not productive and it forces this thread into a vicious cycle and into disrepute. If someone isn’t listening to you, just ignore them, but we should try and maintain positivity.
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That wasn’t an off the cuff answer. That was in a pre-recorded Q&A. They aren’t just drawing questions out of a hat with no prior warning, they choose the questions and let us know the answer. Ion is just the mouthpiece, there were most likely multiple people involved in providing the information that went into the answers.
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It’s not and they don’t make any sense there.
That isn’t true. They’re the only ones who maintain the true Warcraft elf identity anymore. Blood Elves are a shadow of what they once were because of their inclusion with the Horde.
Then why was it incorrect?
Because i know you know Alliance High Elves and Horde Blood Elves are different Tarrok, you’ve been around long enough.
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Because the little bit of sunlight between them is really really REALLY minor and other than that they are the same exact thing?
If it’s true that what we heard from Ion was previously rehearsed, and was the extent of what the collective voices of the development team was willing to say on the matter, it’s quite interesting that what they were unwilling to bluntly utter was, “you’re never getting playable High Elves.”
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As is the case with most ARs.
But as is also the case with most ARs, it’s not an impossibility to differentiate.
Don’t think it’s that interesting really, you generally don’t say a direct no if you don’t have to, and this prevents yet more gloating like the classic people do over the wall of no. They gain nothing and potentially lose a bit by going with a hard no over “we don’t have plans to do that at this time”
On the same faction.
This is all they need to say, otherwise this debate continues. Then recycles itself every 20 minutes.
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Unlike you, I show my main when asked.
In other words, anything is possible in the future – so, then, we’re agreed.
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You just admitted they’re not on the same faction Tarrok.
Don’t play this game.
I didn’t ask. Please continue.
In any event. Nice to know you have no main, with which to call people casuals with.
Correct. Ion said that High Elves weren’t planned for BFA. He even told a guy at Blizzcon that the door isn’t closed and that just because they won’t be in BFA doesn’t mean they’ll never ever do it. Granted, he might have just been polite to the guy but it bears noting that to preclude something forever isn’t profitable.
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Hey, my pessimism at the current writing team has me half convinced they’ll give them to you guys as one of the next stops on the “Screw the horde” tour. I mean they already gave the dwarves the Earthmother.
I’m not the one playing weak petty games here.
They’re all the same type of elf, there’s a political difference between them, that’s it. All of the Allied Races that are just minor iterations of the same race stayed on the same faction. You’re mixing up answers to two different questions so you can lie about what I’m saying some more.
What I’m saying is if any of those have a major storyline where the Horde first leaves them to die then actively tries to have both a major portion of them and their leader executed and then they rather explosively leave the Horde, then 5 years later one of those races joins the Alliance the Horde has no right to claim that they were a Horde race.
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After all that. You still don’t understand.
C,mon dude.
There’s no grandstanding rule that the allied race already has to be a core race for it to be added, that’s why we got Void Elves and you got Nightborne.
Heck, you even just got Vulpera, with 0 race connection to the Horde.
The High Elves we want are already on the Alliance, as you’ve also noted.
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yes ignore the context as usual. while he didnt give a flat no, he didnt have to. what he said was high elves are blood elves and therefore already playable and that there is no need to replicate the race. that faction distinction matters to them. that if you want to be a light skinned and majestic elf that IS a blood elf and the horde is there for you
its almost comical how the established lore and gameplay reasons he gave for NOT doing this are completely ignored
blood elves are there to fulfill the typical eleven fantasy, we dont need another. even though another was given. void elves were your compromise, and yes it was a compromise as we didnt want you to even have the model, enjoy them