No one’s demonizing anybody. You just need to understand that if playable HE happen, it will be a business decision more than anything else. Whatever problems you have with their inclusion, are pretty much extremely minor in Blizzard’s eyes.
Your BE isn’t unique anymore? Who cares. Great customization has never been a strong suit in WoW anyway.
Playable HE will rejuvenate the faction and cause several hundred thousand people to come back to try them? Now you’re talking Blizzard’s language.
no. as the vast majority of the living high elf population is horde, horde has claim
it is also worth remembering the impact playable alliance high elves would now have on void elves(the most popular AR by far) who many players have embraced
when you post on the official forums we have every right to argue against it. this subject is not just about discussing how to make high elves possible. its about everything to do with them, including the case against them being playable that happens to be so strong the developers themselves agree with it
Blood Elves does not equal High Elves anymore, just like the High Elves aren’t Night Elves anymore, just like the Night Elves aren’t Highborn anymore.
Since you think Blood Elves still count as High Elves, then lets look at the bigger picture, all elves are servants of the Legion.
The fact that there are still people that play this game and think in terms of “Alliance players” and “Horde players” as completely separate groups that never overlap is just bizarre to me.
They obviously don’t see it that way.
You really think the people who are desperately arguing for a race not to be included in a certain faction are the kind of players who overlap between the factions?
The majority of anti-Helf arguments reek of faction pride.
I don’t think it has to be a case of either or, as well. Like I said, a bit of clever writing and creative design on Blizzard’s part solves the main sticking point that High Elves and Blood Elves are to similar.
Any new Allied Race, is going to have unique customisation to help make them more visually distinct from the race on which they’re based. A little creative design, a little imagination (in a fantasy game? perish the thought!) on Blizzard’s part and I’m sure they can come up with some really cool, unique and distinct looks that separate High and Blood Elves in game.
I mean if a bunch of passionate amateurs can come up with as many ideas as we saw in the megathreads, then surely career professional designers and writers are up to the task.
Nope, i play both factions. Don’t much like the direction the Horde is headed in and I want something, almost anything, else to take that race slot.
i play both sides but primarily alliance and i don’t want high elves
No, but that’s not the part of your comment I was responding to.
Why though? Does someone’s opinion about an aspect of the game become completely irrelevant just because they responded to a forum post on a Horde alt?
Because this is a faction based expansion and Blizzard has been fanning the divide for years before this. Pretty much the entire dev team prefers Horde over Alliance. Hell, Blizzard put out commercials pretty much showing Alliance and Horde players not getting along in real life scenario’s simply because one of them has a Horde sticker on a notebook while the other has an Alliance pin. I mean its comedic and cute, but thats just such a tiny thing in the vast ocean of what Blizzard has been doing to get the factions to hate each other.
Story: They are wrapped with blood elves so no.
Themes: They wear blue, that is all.
Appearances: They are the same as blood elves.
So yes, it will, and your constant dismissive arguments are simply old and tired.
The fact you make dishonest arguments lead me to beleive it is purely about aesthetics and not lore.
Where did blood elf culture come from? Oh right…high elf culture. You do realize blood elf and high elf culture is the same yes?
The lore, game, and developer’s stated it. You can’t cherry pick the lore, you need to accept all of it. It is stated the differences are political and nothing more.
I made no such claim, you made the assumption in the first place.
Nightborne
Story: They are Night Elves but also Blood Elves
Theme: They are blood elves, put purple.
Appearance: They are Night Elves.
Horde player’s think anything alliance player’s want is bad.
That is demonizing.
If it was a business deicsion regarding money, they would have done it. Clearly, it is not about the money.
That is very much important according to blizzard’s design philosophy. No two races are the same, they have differences put for good reason. So…your dismissive argument is bad.
Which is why they haven’t yet implemented it in the 12 years since TBC right? It’s not like Blizzard hires anyone to conduct a cost benefit analysis. That is just ignorance on your part.
Last I saw, you couldn’t mistake a night elf from a blood elf.
You can mistake a blood from a high elf if you don’t see their eyes.
The mass majority of the time I plyed this game I played a Worgen druid. I only play horde because my wife plays horde. I prefer alliance storylines over Horde. So… meh?
You can split hairs all you want but…
They are as distinct as Void Elves are from Blood Elves.
They are much thinner, have cool tattoos. They have a different color pallet. Their clothing and cities are very different. Their culture it distinct, they feel different… They’re pretty distinct.
You already have Void Elves.
Here we go. Same old argument. Same odl, flawed, argument.
Story: night elves severely altered by the power of the nightwell augmented by aman’thul’s eye.
Theme: The original Highborne from which all other elves can claim to hail.
So when you look at a night elf and a nightborne side by side or from behind you can mistake them easily? Good joke. Tell it some more.
They are also different races according to Blizzard sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
yeah.
Or… it is about the money, and they understand something that people who argue for Alliance High Elves don’t
Good point.
It could be its too much of a loss to implement.
or blizzard can tell people to roll a void elf if they want a high elf variant that can play with humans
which they have done
So your saying that one of the most demanded Alliance races since Vanilla being released is a loss of money?
Oh wait, I forget, Alliance are the minority of players, who cares about them?
Haha, they literally exist to be the Hordes punching bag, right?
EDIT: Happy 1000’th post))