I remember the April fools thing they did way back where they introduced Two-Headed ogres as the next race, where two players would control it in tandem.
Hereâs the thing about fussy restrictions on what people play:
Itâs totally fine for you to say, the way that this race was implemented bothers me, it doesnât line up with what I think of the lore, it should have been done this other way so Iâm just not going to play the race. Okay! You donât have to. Thatâs perfectly all right.
When it gets past the tip of your own nose and youâre now saying that other people shouldnât be allowed to play red-eyed Void Elves or Void Elves without hair tentacles or use them as a stand-in for a janky High Elf workaround, thatâs where it gets to be a problem.
It bothers you? Okay. Donât roll a Void Elf. But whatever justification the next person has for the Void Elf stand-in that they use for their Darkfallen High Elf Ranger or whatever is their own. More options arenât a bad thing. We donât need every other race in the game to be some kind of very slightly tweaked Quelâdorei.
Let people enjoy things.
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And no joke - I think that revisiting that concept would be great. My brother and I have a blast playing ChoâGall. And it would be an interesting way of teaching new players the game if you play the âprimaryâ movement physical head, while they play a caster symbiotically.
It would be a bold choice. And a risky one. And they might need to pull a âBlue Mageâ and restrict what content is available to them. But it would absolutely be fun. Because this is a video game. It should be fun.
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I love dumb, weird stuff like that also. Like you said, itâs risky, but the payoff in unique gameplay opportunities would be worth it.
Red eyes are tied to the dark ranger skin no? Or did they change that?
The idea of Void Elves was cool, However their reason for adding them was bad
They gave void elves to a crowd that wanted high elves and then pulled a shocked pikachu face when nobody liked it and demanded they be changed
They shouldâve added silver covenant elves and void elves couldâve been something entirely separate from the blood elf/high elf drama
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To be fair, it doesnât exactly clash with the void theme either. Weâve seen plenty of void-related entities with red eyes before.
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True, although i prefer more nâzoth/câthun eyes as customuzation 
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I am basically going to be playing a High Elf as my main in DF. I created a Void Elf, gave her light skin and blond hair and âPRESTOâ a High Elf.
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I think itâs just a sign that they donât really care about their game enough to continue what they have started. They do the bare minimum and figure nobody will care any more than they do.
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Itâs almost like high elves have been a playable race since TBC and the majority of them at the time picked up a habit of slurping on fel energy to replace the sunwell because generic arcane magic was required in an untenable amount to feed their populationâŚ
Then everyone complained that the alliance deserved high elves because âreasonsâ even though technically high elves should have despised the alliance because they left them high and dry when the trolls came in and wrecked them after Arthas (a literal leader of an alliance country) destroyed the font of magic that kept their people fed and did nothing to assist them afterwardsâŚ
So Blizzard tried to fufill those people wishes by giving them VEs while maintaining the already set lore. People complained like there was no tomorrow because reasons and blizz caved again and now people can just be void elves on the alliance and need to frankly shut up about it.
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Blood Elves and Void Elves are High Elves born from Night Elf Highborne who settled QuelâThalas. Night Elves were the first Elves transformed from Trolls by Elune. Blood Elves following Magister Umbric were exiled from Silvermoon City for investigating alternate power sources in the Void to replace the lost Sunwell to save their people. Trapped in the Void and transformed by Void Ethereals the Void Elves are rescued by Alleria Windrunner who teaches them how to silence the voices. Void Elves out of gratitude for their leader Alleria Windrunner (High Elf) join the Alliance.
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I wish Blizzard would just make some kind of inclusion of Void Elves in the story, or give them any sort of foundation, so that they can be seen as legitimate.
I really hope they split the eye and skin customization for the Dark Ranger skin so I can fake-out Nâzoth eyes on my void elf 
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The overall High Elf story was ruined the moment The Silver Covenant was introduced.
Their story went from powerless, to power, to struggle, to loss, then to rebirth. The High Elf story was all but complete. It had a start, it had an end. What remained was a small number that could have had a more interesting, minor story part. The main bulk of their people is now in the Horde, and they deal with their shared magic addiction in what could be considered less than moral ways. The Alliance also decided to attack the main bulk of their people, which especially should be a dilemma for those still calling themselves âHigh Elvesâ.
To join their people yet again, to learn of a way to deal with the withdrawals suffered following the destruction of the Sunwell, despite reservations about the moral dilemma and them having joined the Horde, or to continue supporting the faction that FORCED the Blood Elves into the Horde in the first place.
Instead blizzard introduced a boring third branch, the Silver Covenant: âOh, we have no trouble⌠we are fairly healthy⌠we live happilyâ etc etc.
Blizzard ruined High Elf story, plain and simple.
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The story of high elves leaving the blood elven main group wasnât invented in wrath with the silver covenent. It had been a thing since BC, and explained that they drained mana from enchanted or magical objects instead of living beings.
I would not say the story was ruined from it either.
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In addition, now whenever you donât get a drop you want itâs possibly because the Silver Covenant ate it.
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Youâre not. Plenty of people like the void elves for what they are and could be.
When I found out that one of my favorite races was going to be combined with my favorite magic type in wow led by my favorite hero from WCII I was over the moon.
Literally came back for void elves after seven years away from wow.
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If only everybody thought that way
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I was never really a fan of void elvesâIâve always felt that their sole reason for existing was to try to placate High Elf fans on the Alliance while simultaneosly allowing Ion to not go back on his vow to never add High Elves to the game. However, I can still respect people who do like Velves and have become interested in their own aesthetic/identity. I can also sympathize with the desire not to see your raceâs identity get whitewashed on behalf on another non-existent oneâs; as a Belf enjoyer, Iâm kind of lukewarm on the Helf customizations we got as well.
Assuming that my rational for why Velves were created was correct (to placate Helf lovers on the Alliance), I feel as though Blizz grossly misunderstood the calls for Helves. The reason people wanted Helves on the Alliance was never just because people wanted the Belf models on the Alliance, it was always down to a cultural/lore thing, so giving over a vaguely Helf-looking model with a completely different culture/lore was always going to be a bad solution. All it led to were calls for the Velves to be more like the Helves until we got the current situation that you described (all new Velf customizations being Helf-themed rather than Velf-themed).
In order to solve this problem, I feel as though Blizz will have to take a definitive stance on Helves compared to the last decade of vagueness theyâve treated the topic with. Either have all of them become Void Elves or return to Silvermoon city and become Blood Elves. With Velves already existing on the Alliance and people complaining about the overabundance of Elves, I donât really think making Helves an allied race is an option at this point.
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Void elves as race are centered in the void, as night elves are centered in nature.
then you have Shenâdralar elves living among night elves, they are a subfaction magic themed instead nature but they didnât change what night elves are, alliance high elves as a subfaction of void elves shouldnât change what void elves are or what they stand for.
void elves have the luck to show off thru customizations other elves subraces or themes, and thatâs a good thing, nobody is imposing anything on anybody, voidy and high elfers in the alliance have to stop trying to erase each other, share what were given and play according to your taste.