I disagree with this characterization. I haven’t seen anyone act the way you describe. Ok, spamming, maybe a little, but it just shows how much people care about this issue.
The real vocal minority here are the anti-high elves. High elves on the Alliance have been highly sought after since WoW began. I highly doubt the vast majority of Horde players care whether Alliance players get playable High Elves.
High elves should have been a cross-faction race from the beginning. Their popularity (in popular culture) has been so universal since Tolkien that they should have been available to both factions. They are too awesome of a race to only let one faction have them. Horde could have gotten their “bad” blood elves, and Alliance could have gotten their “good” high elves. What people are asking for is something that they should have rightly had since at least TBC.
Yeah they would. Forsaken aren’t being any different just because they are getting pink hair or being able to hide bones in Shadowlands. Blood elves are still Blood elves despite getting blue eyes or dark skin.
Void Elves can still maintain the voidy silhouette without being locked in the same nearly identical pallete choices. Edit: Same for Nightborne. The dark hair option was added later on the PTR, and if I recall, there is not a single Nightborne NPC that uses that color.
That guy is on a inquisition. He is bumping on other threads, trying to hunt anything in his mind that relates to people asking for helves. I just looked at his post history, he has being doing that for quite some time.
I don’t think that’s true at all. The vast majority of the community doesn’t likely care. I think the people who oppose the idea already have things the way that they want them and are far less motivated. I think playable Alliance high elves are much more unpopular than they are popular. If the recent movement on the issue has shown me anything, it’s that.
I think in reality most people literally just don’t care one way or the other.
I think the relative size of the Anti and Pro High Elf groups who actually do care is probably only slightly weighted towards the pros, and I widely think this is more a matter of the type of extraneous communities around them.
Anti’s tend to flock together in smaller less easily discernible groups.
Pro’s tend to flock in larger groups and are more centralized.
That said, again, I think really MOST folk don’t care either way.
OH! There are also the folk who wouldn’t care except AR’s make it seem like High Elves might take a slot that could go to something they themselves want.
The recent “movement” as you call it, is about blood elf eye color. Not about Alliance high elves. A lot of Horde players want blue eyes for blood elves. What they resent isn’t necessarily Alliance getting high elves, but people telling them they can’t have blue eyes on blood elves because of Alliance high elves.
For myself, I don’t care if Alliance high elves looked identical. We already have identical Pandaren. Like the Pandaren, it’s their different philosophy that matters, not their aesthetics. And we already have Void Elves who look virtually identical to blood elves, with the only difference being skin tone. Nobody on Horde threw a fit about that, so I don’t see why they (the general Horde population, not just Horde forum-goers) would care about this, either.
And anyway, if they absolutely have to look different, Blizzard can make that happen. They can have a different idle stance, be thinner, have different hair styles (like Void Elves!), any number of options. If they did it with Kul Tirans, they can do it with high elves.
