Nothing is confirmed. People have datamined several eye colors and glows for Blood Elves, including blue eyes. Nowhere it is indicated whether these blue eyes will be something players can choose or whether they’ll be an exclusive option for NPCs. Dataminers have also found a High Elf skin with blue underwear, nails and jewelry, and that won’t be an option for playable Blood Elves, obviously. Remember that among the Blood Elf files there have always been High Elf and Dark Ranger skins not available to players since TBC, this isn’t something new.
Even if Blood Elves had blue eyes, that doesn’t mean they’re High Elves (the Alliance specific group that has always been requested). An eye color does not make a Thalassian elf a High Elf - blue eyed Blood Elves are still those who joined the Horde, mana tapped animals, expelled those other vegan High Elves who rejected doing so, decorated their homeland with Fel crystals and, most importantly, actively kill Alliance on sight. Blue eyed Blood Elves are not the Silver Covenant elves, the Highvale elves, the Allerian Stronghold elves or the rest of High Elves in Dalaran and Stormwind, for instance.
Whether Blood Elves have blue eyes or not, High Elves still qualify as an Allied Race, as they’re a subfaction of an existing core race with enough sociopolitical differences. The model or eye color is irrelevant - Blizzard just needs to follow the Kul Tiran approach and give them a new model.
So please, just calm down, everybody, that includes people both for and against playable Alliance High Elves.
Maybe so. They still should continue asking.
Blue eyes alone do not change what they are asking to play.
Blizzard keeps using them, has had them since vanilla. The high elves in the Alliance are a thing and until they remove them or have the story draw them off in some fashion,(destruction or becoming void elves something like that) the request should continue if that’s what they want to play.
By that logic, Void Elves are High Elves. It’s the transitive property after all. I want more skin options for Void Elves and shoehorn the High Elves into the Void Elves and give them more skin options. No need for another new race. Split the High Elves between Void and Blood.
