Most casual players want to play a beautiful human character and nothing else. The Thalassian model is the perfect mary/gary stu design for everyone, who wants to be always young, always powerful and of course beautiful looking.
I often read how the human model looks like a monkey and way too old. My generation does not like playing old characters, because they either want to feel powerful (what they are not in RL) or beautiful looking. Washing the Blood Elf-model down the line is the perfect way to open up actual race diversity everywhere else.
At the same time the racials needs to brought up to Nelf/Dwarf/Orc-standards, to give each race better chances to be played. While this isnât always the case, as the Mechagnomes show, too many players are rectulant to try new races out. I was there before and Iâm so grateful for my brothers in forcing me to try other races to see the bigger picture here. WoW has so many great races, which are completely underappreciated because most players just want to be a Blood Elf. And if we go with the current pleas, a Druid-one too.
Casual players are not the kind of people who the story should be written for.
Also, for someone who talks about how itâs just a damn game, you sure are obsessed with something as inane as race diversity in it⊠lmfao.
While I would certainly like to see fewer insufferable morons who just want to play pretty humanoids on the horde, I like good story, and my damn capital. What you want ruins both. I donât appreciate that. Donât think many others do either. It is not worth trashing the race just because you want to see people play other races. People will play what they damn well please, and changes should not be made just to push them to do otherwise for your weird desire for racial representation in a video game.
There is no relation to both your points. Last month I just played the last half of the final week, which can be proven, if Blizzard allows you to have access to my game online data.
Secondly, the Blood Elf-model is/was always a hard contested piece of attractive meat, which is why people also fought for four years to get the fair-skinned/blonde haired subrace for the Alliance.
This is kind of a double standard here. The introduction of Body types are okay but not actual race diversity, to make the World of Warcraft more interesting? Blood Elves are an overplayed race, as much as Humans and Night Elves are (or even the High Elves on Alliance now). But this is also more of a nitpick of the highest level. If I look at FF14, I only see humans, gnomes and human-lions.
There does not need to be a relation between my first and second point. My second point is just pointing out how absurd it is to care about race diversity in a game but somehow you point out that itâs just a game to us about the stuff we care about.
I donât give a damn about body types, and race diversity in the game doesnât really make the game more interesting to me, or at least certainly not enough to try and force people to play something other than what they want to play through the means you would employ. Especially if it means my favorite race has to get their damn racials trashed for your bizarre fascination with seeing more variety in who plays what as if that is even any of your damn business.
I want mana tap back⊠or something that shows blood elvesâ penchant for draining enemiesâŠ
I disagree. Night Elves and Trolls are different, Blood Elves are just Humans for Horde-players, who donât like the Forsaken. And the sheer popularity speaks for itself, on both sides. If we break the design down, then only the ears and eyes are different. Otherwise itâs just a better and more attractive human model.
Thatâs true! I always forget that High Elves are now playable. What a weird time we live in.
I wouldnât want to play a MMO, where every race is basically the same (aka the Alliance-issue), which is why Blizzard needs to go with the times.
Blizzard is prone to force things down everyoneâs throat.
This already happened several times with the Blood Elves, which only makes my point even more valid. But it was a mistake to begin with to give them during TBC racials which would tip the scale towards Horde. One more time wouldnât hurt, especially by merging the Thalassian Elves together and make them the Pandaren 2.0!
I beleive it was said that theu regret not making thallasians a neutral race like pandaren at some point. I canât remember who in blizz said that though.
Whomever said that wasnât in line with Metzen and crew that said they didnât want to make their High Elves like Tolkienâs. That they want to give them a twist in the TBC race intro.
