It’s funny because when Mechagnomes and Vulpera hit the live servers, the count will be raised to precisely 1 out of 5 AR’s being things that the Alliance actually requested – whereas the Horde is currently sitting comfortably at 5 out of 5 AR’s that were requested.
The story quality for one expansion being good or bad is a short-term issue, having terribly uninspired additions to your faction will negatively impact the Alliance’s narrative forever.
You’re tackling the issue from an in-universe perspective, which is fine and dandy, but is wholly unrelated to the issue of out-of-universe perspective – no matter what happens in the narrative, no matter who does what to whom, the playerbase will always see Tauren (and any variants thereof) as being intrinsically Horde.
The fact that we’re now 12+ years on from TBC and tons of folks still contend that the BE’s are out of step with the broader Horde, thematically, demonstrates that this is a basic truth.
Eh, I think that’s all an opinion, I’d say Mag’har and HMT were desired cosmetic options turned into half-posteriored allied races (with the HMT being pretty much the absolutely laziest AR in my opinion) basically something that feels like someone bought you say a birthday present off of your weekly grocery list, yeah you wanted it, but not in that context.
Vulpera are pretty contentious as there’s plenty of people upset that we’re getting it (as in horde people who wanted anything else, not people who thought the alliance should get it)
yes actual alliance aligned high elves are already in game as 2 decorative NPCs in stormwind and 2 in boralus for BFA which is the most current content. congratulations you have 4 individuals clinging to an adjective. an AR is not going to come from 4 individuals whose only point of differentiation is an opinion
high/blood elves are identical in looks, themes, and fantasy. development already told you. its one of the reasons you willfully ignore. that faction distinction matters and the light skinned and MAJESTIC elf theme IS a blood elf and exclusive to horde and if you want it then you play the faction they belong to
No, you’re applying minority viewpoints to the whole picture. Because some diehard Alliance players can’t accept the fact that the blood elves left the Alliance in 2003 and some diehard Horde fans are against them because they’re not BIG STRONG BURLY MEN LIKE ME RAAARGH doesn’t mean that their viewpoint that they’re now and forever an Alliance race is objectively right.
Annnnnd, some fans of both factions, want to play their favorite race on alliance, particularly since they are already an alliance allied race. They’re my char’s kin. … its a family war - sylvannas and co. vs. alleria/veressa and co.
It is the story behind it encompasses an entire expansion’s worth of plot and character development and ushers in the “end” of a major arc in WoWs story.
I wasn’t really commenting on how polished a job Blizzard did with their Allied Races, merely that the specific groups they added were actively discussed and requested – as you say, people wanted Mag’har and HMT. The quality of the end result is hardly the point.
The Nightborne became a popular request the moment we met them.
The HMT became a popular request the moment we met them.
The Mag’har (i.e. brown-skinned orcs) have been a popular request for a decade.
The Zandalari have been a popular request since Mists.
The Vulpera became a popular request the moment we met them.
Conversely…
The Dark Iron Dwarves have been a popular request since 2004.
There weren’t any Void Elves to be a popular request, before we got them.
The Lightforged Draenei weren’t ever a popular request.
The Kul Tirans weren’t ever a popular request.
The Mechagnomes, even the ones people requested, weren’t ever really a popular request…
I think, if you re-read what I wrote, you’ll find that I didn’t once imply that there was anything objective about what I was saying – the entire point basically relied on the notion of subjectivity being a factor.
With the exception of Jaina, the entirety of the Alliance could’ve died in the opening scene of this expansion and nothing would’ve changed for us.
nightborne have three skin colours, two extremely vivid blues that cannot be mistaken for any night elf skin tone and one gray skin tone. show me the purple one
I think you might need to check what purple is, Nightborne lack a purple skin, even then NPCS.
And… theres also a lot of lore backing the Nightborne, their apparence, their model and why they are in the Horde. Something those discount blood elves lack.
