Part of me has to agree. They made fun of my dinner the other night.
Weird how Ion’s statements can give you hope. Shouldn’t his statements also squash it?
This statement makes it seem like you actually do care about the debate due to intentionally misinterpreting one side so badly its almost comical.
Weird how conveniently Ion is used to support High Elves, but dismissed the moment he says anything they dont like.
I consistently do not care what he says about lore.
i wonder why
Because lore isn’t his job. He’s only passingly familiar with it by the looks of it, and he doesn’t have to know more. Asking him lore questions is asking at the wrong address.
ion was the one who floated ‘high’ elves and brown orcs for the AR system before they implemented it
obviously after discussing it internally with other devs they ruled them out. he is speaking on behalf of the development team as the game director. the reasons he gave for ruling them out arent going away either(not distinct from blood elves, too few, blurs faction identity) and when you actually accpet that you realize alliance high elves are never happening. thats why you scapegoat him
No, I spacegoat him. That is an important difference.
Seriously, though. Unless he explicitly says he’s speaking for the team, I’m taking any statement as his opinion. He has experts for various things and as project lead is reading a summary at best. He can also change his mind, and so can his team. I don’t see anything as set in stone until it’s actually ingame.
Given them High Goblins instead.
Imagine being the art team of WoW, you make all these new races and heritage armor etc etc and people are raging about wanting blood elves with the eye color changed to a tint of blue. Must suck.
Go on, tell them what you made that we made fun of.
Imagine giving the alliance races that weren’t asked for and then being surprised they are still asking for what they actually want.
The devs have never said they’re never happening, Ion himself has said anything is possible in the future, which is why people continue to have hope. Blue Eyes for blood elves would’ve been the nail in High Elves coffin, but the devs actively decided against it, which makes one think something may be coming in the future 
Enjoy your green eyes
he flat out said theres no plans
its possible horde humans could happen too. either through the fogsail freebooters or reaching out to what remains of the defias or alterac who both feel betrated by the alliance
giving them to the horde was the nail. void elves crushed the fanfiction and buried it
ive been enjoying them since 2007, ty!
You need to stop part-quoting what Ion says.
“No plans in the near term to add High Elves” - April, 2018.
and that changes no plans how?
It means that, in the future, it’s possible that they’ll be added. Lol.
“No plans in the near future” which followed “Anything is possible.” Still a polite way of saying no, but he does technically leave it open
Technically they did give us High Elves with Void Elves. Blood Elves are High Elves and Void Elves are Blood Elves. That’s the nail in the coffin imo, the fact that we technically already have them
The fact that we already have them, just needs to be made playable for the Alliance.
you can nitpick and distort it however you want. that the context of what the lead dev said wasnt high elves are already playable with blood elves, but ACTUALLY what he meant was high elves are coming to the alliance and we are just trying to figure out the right way to implement their really ‘unique’ awesomenss
There’s probably as many vulpera hate threads as there are pro-HE threads so I’m just gonna lol at this.
How do the vulpera hate threads negate anything I said?
Ions words exactly from that same Q&A:
“Blood Elves, kind of are High Elves.”
Noticed the “kind of”?
And as for the recent comment from him, “as they evolved.”, as in reference to as Blood Elves have evolved.