Listen to me: no, they aren’t. They’re completely unrelated to goblins, and only use their base skeleton structure - absolutely nothing else. They have unique animations, unique emotes, they’re not even an allied race for goodness sake, they’re a BRAND NEW BIOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT RACE.
It’s increasingly harder for me to main Alliance in this game. It’s not funny anymore. I’m sorry if this sounds pedantic, childish, immature or whatever other adjective you can come up with - but this is how I feel, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
TLDR: I feel deeply disappointed, and tired of Horde bias.
It’s not about mechagnomes or vulpera - I like them both. It’s about how Alliance gets a repeated race with a robotic appearance and the Horde receives a brand new race. If they ever thought of doing this, the Horde should have also had gilgoblins and the Alliance a brand new race. THAT would be fair.
Blizzard just doesn’t care about the Alliance. It sucks, but they haven’t done anything to fix it in the first 15 years of the game. It’s safe to say they are never going to.
They’re both fine, it doesn’t matter. These factions…it’s like kids arguing over who got the better piece of candy. Enjoy the ones you like, don’t play the ones you don’t.