By THAT logic, I could argue since the Horde were an army of the Legion — and the Legion had Eredar, which are currently a skin beheld by Draenei →
The Horde had Draenei first! “Arguing the current Horde is not the same as the former Horde is like saying Dunkin is now a different company because it no longer calls itself Dunkin Donuts.”
See how silly that sounds? lol
I was glad when they added high elves to the alliance. Unfortunately, they named them, void elves and put purple in their hair. A lot of confusion and disappointment has been created because the elves weren’t just named what they actually were.
People are delusional if they think Blizzard will ever add High Elves. Just. Get. Over. It.
Just give all the elf races, high elf customisations.
That is literally not how that works. The Horde were subcontractors of the Legion and truly part of their company. To continue the use of the analogy.
Also, even then the Horde would have had the eredar and NOT the draenei, which were a spin off of the main company.
The current Horde is the Old Horde though. You can draw a direct line from Thrall to Blackhand. Thrall was literally made Warchief by the Warchief of the “Old Horde” and then proceeded to… change absolutely nothing about the legal structures of the Horde.
The reason your analogy doesn’t work and is bad (and it is bad) is because Eredar were not in the Horde, the Horde was a distinct political entity that was loosely aligned with the Burning Legion.
High Elves, on the other hand, were a signficant part of the Alliance in WC2, and then kept playing a role within the Alliance to some degree or another in WC3, WoW, BC, WotLK, Cataclysm, MoP, etc.
It was definitely a bad analogy for sure. The horde and man’ari who were owned by the Legion are not the same orcs and Eredar we see in the game as playable. When it comes to High Elves, I think the argument could be very easily squashed if people understood that there was a very small surviving percentage of them left based on the history of the game and the story. Void elves are about as close as people are going to get. honestly, it would be nice if they just add a re-skin option for every race and then people could just pretend they are that race and we could put the whole incident to sleep.
The problem with this is “Void Elves.” We’re supposed to believe that Quel’danil Lodge, the Silver Covenant and Quel’dorei forces on Outland with the Sons of Lothar don’t have the numbers to justify a playable race, while simultaneously believing that “a crack, elite squad” of exiles from Quel’thalas do?
This is why Blizzard should have never added Void Elves. They destroy every single anti-High Elf argument that has ever been uttered, while being these really gross, unsatisfying lorelol aberrations and not actually ending the “High Elf Discourse.”
Blizzard should have just given Alliance actual High Elves in Legion or given them something else entirely. The Void Elf half-measure sucks and created more problems than it solved.
Okay? … By that extent, one could still argue the same with Quel’Thalas to the Alliance.
The Alliance didn’t exactly dissolve when they left.
And such is now the case of Elves who remain titled ‘High Elves’ 
The main company and supermass majority of which — Stands with the Horde.
And I’m sure that 300 - 400 people are actually bothered by it. Everyone else just uses a role-play add-on and sets their own race.
Angelanika, I commend you for posting this.
Keep at it, Blizzard will cave eventually.
(yea yea, someone is going to reply that “High Elves” are already playable, just stop)
Just because you said it, they FACTUALLY are playable in game and no it’s not up for debate.
You b aight.
They ended up taking away from the Horde anyway - see MN Silvermoon; once exclusive to the Horde, in MN mostly neutral.
The racial proc where you turn all purple is kind of hard to ignore though - void theming is pretty strong; so unless you are edgy and want to RP a void-afflicted elf … it might not be your cup of tea.
Blizzard probably did that on purpose to differentiate them from Blood Elves - they will let the tentacles and blue skin side but not the proc.
Silvermoon is a city of High Elves. It was built by architects from the Alliance, and this city should be in the Alliance. Please remember that 
It was build by the Thalassian Elves. No, the “Alliance” do not own them - heck the Alliance of WC3 isn’t even the same Alliance we have today.
You are literally posting on a high elf.
There is a purple proc while chatting and sitting?
No, unless you are in combat when you are chatting or sitting.
Now don’t tell me it doesn’t matter. It does. It ruins the fantasy if your fantasy is to have a “regular” elf. It’s difficult to ignore the void theming.
I say this as a guy who mained a BE Mage for about 15 years and recently tried a VE in Legion remix.
I feel like if they were ever going to add them, they already would have. Most of the stories in the game explain how there are very few left and making them playable doesn’t make a lot of sense. At the end of the day we’re talking about an imaginary world with a built-in history and the player avatar having almost nothing to do with anything except player enjoyment. Maybe one of these days, they will add an option to the barbershop, but that probably won’t solve the whole combat thing so not sure what to tell you here. but everybody should just keep asking for it and maybe for the 40th anniversary they will release something.