Yeah but how did Blizzard get Horde races so right and Alliance so wrong? Who started the “I want playable Kul Tiran but make them Ogre people” you all saw the hundreds of request threads? No?
Who started the “I want Draenei, but give them more cosmetics then make them a seperate race, but still be the same Draenei pretty much” threads?
Who started the “I want Void Elves on Alliance but they have to be Blood Elves, not High Elves, and they have to be taught by Alleria just to twist the knife for Alliance players that wanted High Elves” thread?
Like come on, it’s too absurd to just be “oh we didn’t know” it’s actively screwing with people now.
Vs. “Void elves are a compromise even though blizz never said it!”. Yes I can see how I am the irrational one here.
If I only acknowledge what serves my “agenda” and try to discredit anything that doesnt then clearly I learned it from you and some of the other players who spend their lives trying to come up with a new way to say “blood elves are high elves”.
Despite the fact that the very reasons why High elves weren’t added to the Alliance were the very things changed about Void elves. Difference is I’m making a conclusion over things that were said, not accusing a lead designer of lying.
Because Spellbreakers are exclusively Blood Elven. The existence of Shal’dorei Spellbreakers imply it comes from a long tradition, but the lack of them previous the fall of Silvermoon marks them as either nominal or forgotten and they only rose to prominence after the Fall because of their skill set.
In other words, for whatever reason, Spellbreakers only came to be after the fall, there simple weren’t spellbreakers before the Frozen Throne.
No, I’m specifically referring to the “real” bit on the “real high elves” nonsense.
They are both Thalassian Elves, or just elves really. “High Elf” is nothing but the description of the group on a specific period of time.
Blood Elves changed culturally, and they also changed their name, the Modern High Elves also changed culturally, they just didn’t change their name.
The only ones calling themselves now High Elves are not the “real” High Elves, because their culture is not the same, they are in their overwhelming majority expats on human cities, assimilating into another culture.
Blood Elves are neither the “real” High Elves because they also changed, they adapted in order to survive and retake their homeland. They are just a lot more.
Neither group are the “real” High Elves, because that definition fell with Quel’thalas.
Evidently, Void Elves are a compromise for people that wanted an Elf on the alliance. Not necessarily a High Elf.
So, for those who wanted High Elves, specifically, why would we consider Void Elves a compromise when they are not what we wanted?
You can’t claim they are a compromise for people that wanted another thing, this is not hard to understand.
That literally means they are not a compromise for people that wanted High Elves.
I certainly don’t come to the forums for this topic, but it’s always here. The same handful of people will just keep bumping it. If their voices are going to be heard, ours should also… even if it is only screaming into the void.
I’m not saying they’re a compromise for everyone, but many of the people wanted High elves didn’t want them exclusively for their story, but their visual appearance, for some that’s still the case, for others they’re happy playing their void elves.
