Ironically, the only race that could help the alliance population

[Blastkrizzle-moon-guard]

@Milynde-malygos

I doubt it. I always hear stupidly hyperbolic claims about how high elves could “restore” the Alliance or even the entire game from people who grossly overestimate how much of an impact a fifth (sixth if you count dracthyr because of their visages) elven race would have.

The options already proved this and they were successful.

@Milynde-malygos

Most people aren’t thinking “You know what the Alliance really needs? An exact copy of a Horde race that’s even closer to the original than the one it just got two expansions ago.”

Perhaps it’s the other way around. People do not believe that Horde-players are worthy of the race, that it was a mistake and needs to be reversed. And while this won’t happening anytime soon, the notion alone being active for over 15 years indicates a very strong following across several generations of players. Because there are only two possible scenarios:

• Old players still have a grudge
• Or new players do agree with the suggestion

In either case it’s an on-going issue and it did only stop after 9.1.5.

@Milynde-malygos

In fact, the Alliance being predominantly composed of humans and human-like races while the Horde’s races have more variety in body shapes has recently become a criticism of the former here, so people have started asking for the Alliance to get more monstrous races (sethrak, quilboar, tuskarr, a tauren variant for some Light-forsaken reason, etc.) to mix things up.

This should have already happened with the HMT in Legion but given Blizzard’s poor track record in catering to the minority faction, it’s clear that they do not care unless it has long-lasting negative impacts.

@Vailnite-kelthuzad

Imo, its too late for High Elves to help. Bliz homogenized the elf population too much with void elves, and then doubled down by allowing both blood and void elves to regain their non-corrupted original blue color.

Yes. The backlash was real, after all. And people still have an immense grudge towards the one developer who created the Void Elves. Looking back, she might regrets it deeply and how much it affected the players. This is surely one of her biggest mistakes working for Blizzard: Alienating the player base, starting a vicious war which goes on for +5 years now. Not a good sign.

@Tymberlea-moon-guard

Void Elves were the compromise. Play them or not.

Beat this dead horse all you like, but it’s not a pinata - no candy will come out.

I strongly disagree. When the linked topics have proven one thing, than that this issue went viral and showed the worst of the community. 9.1.5 was a clear indication to undo the damage and no argument can change the fact that they got blonde haired elves and even two additional hair colors which were not part of the initial ptr release.