Doubt it, we are getting forest and sand troll options for the darkspear trolls. Wildhammer options for the dwarves. Darkranger night elves. So unless if they are getting lore implications as well (which I seriously doubt). It’s just better customization which is better all around lore or not.
Probably because bloodelves have been trying to rejoin the alliance time and time again. Garrosh inadvertently collapsed an opportunity for the bloodelves to backstab the horde and join alliance by convincing Jaina that bloodelves are evil and need to be genocided and locked up in dalaran.
Also why would they join the alliance? Cause the horde kicked them out. Where else would they go? Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Why would the alliance accept them? Even ignoring the whole “enemy of my enemy” bit would be Alleria Windrunner who now represents and takes responsibility for them.
It wasn’t a retcon it was them creating a new race. With a new identity. New properties. And giving a major character a chance to come back into the story and lead their own race.
Want to know what a retcon is? Making it so voidelves can now look like high elves. The only one who is supposed to have normal skin is Alleria because she is technically not a void elf. Just like how technically sylvanas isn’t a human forsaken and thus gets to look like a unique character… Alleria’s involvement with the void was an entirely different scenario than the one that corrupted the void elves.
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I like how you can basically be void elf in name only lol.
Just proves they were a mistake.
I mean… It’s rather myopic to just assume it’s just “ME” who sees it as nonsensical. No?
Have you actually read the Blood elf lore? Because it is rather accurate. The Alliance isn’t some hivemind. While some were willing to take in the sickly High Elves, many were disgusted. To suggest otherwise would be ignoring the lore…
If Alleria had gotten to the exiles sooner then she could have taught them how to harness it (like herself) and end up retaining their normal skin tones. In my own little world I am looking at the blood elves and high elves at the rift. The ones that are being taught the correct way. These are the ones that are changed a bit (hair styles, tentacles, racials) but are able to keep their skin tones.
I dunno. Not trying to upset anyone, just maybe giving a different way to look at it?
Void elf are a race out of nowhere with little background (only 2 missions) and given to the Alliance only to no give HE at the time. What you’re seeing now is Blizzard giving his arm to twist over the HE/VE because they can’t otherwise provide enough customization to the BE and because the VE wher criticized as nonsense since day one.
Nobody cares about Void elf, but everyone wants HE 
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I like to think that the skin tones are just the various members of the Silver Covenant wandering over to the Rift to take up void magic.
After all, elves naturally gravitate toward sources of power with world ending proportions. It is completely in their nature to go “what are the odds of us blowing up the world again?” and then go do just that.
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No, it isn’t.
You’ve basically said, “why would Peurto Rico adjoin themselves to the United States, after the U.S. government (with assistance from Soviet Russia) dropped 1,000 nuclear bombs on Peurto Rico in 1776?!”.
They wouldn’t, but luckily for us (and Peurto Rico), that isn’t how things actually happened. Similarly, the way you describe in-universe history isn’t how things actually happened.
[citation required]
I have never read any source hinting at Blood elves wanting to rejoin the Alliance after they treated them like dog dirt.
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I embrace them and have many VE alts now as I know it’s likely the closest we’ll get, at least for a long time. So overall I like these additions.
It’s not the exact class fantasy I’ve wanted since vanilla, but it’s closer.
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That was a whole sub-plot leading up to the purge of Dalaran.
Cool and so were Draenei. Almost like when you create a brand new race you sorta like… gasp need time to develop it. You expecting a brand new race created at the literal end of the last expansion to be as developed as all the older races is a pretty huge mistake.
If we all thought like you then anytime Blizzard came up with something that wasn’t an orc or a human then we should probably just abandon it. Because there’s no history durr hurr durr hurr. Lelehle nobody caresss!1111
Can you reply with your alliance main?
Another one coming up? Still waiting to kill Jaina for the first one 
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The vast majority of people requesting Blue Eyes where just trolling High Elf fans.
Well looks like all it did was give them something to trade for the Skintones. Some wanted it but there a lot of it was just trolls.
And a lot of people still aren’t happy because we still don’t have actual High Elves. There needs to be more than just a skin swap.
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You don’t know that a vast majority of anything were doing anything.
You’re saying that to inflate your own opinion and make your own disappointment seem more significant than it just being your feelings on the subject.
The Draenei appeared on TBC, that expansion was full of lore and their participation, the Void elf appeared out of nowhere at the end of Legion and their participation in BfA was insipid.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying they couldn’t be a good addition, I’m saying they weren’t because Blizzard didn’t take them seriously, they put them in the game and abandoned them. Of all the allied races of both Legion and BfA, the Void elf are the least developed.
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I meant hairstyle, not hair color. High elves don’t have that unkempt, dracula-esque style going on to them.
It’s just very disappointing looking at something as gorgeous and imaginative as this
as htps://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/939985.pn (put g at the end, this ridiculous forum disables links)
and then you know Blizzard will leave you stuck with brown void elves and pink skin.
Yeah well that’s a fault that can easily be corrected if blizzard would actually take a moment to flesh it out and expand on what they created.
Just like how they could actually flesh out those abysmal nightborne customization options. For a race that was heavily featured in Legion and got a ton of attention they got arguably the laziest implementation of a playable race in the game. Even mechagnomes and other goofy crap had more work put into them.
But instead of fleshing out what could be an interesting race they’d rather destroy it to appease people wanting to play a blue eye elf on the wrong faction. When the very idea of the factions being so seperate is the root cause of all the games worst issues.
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Void elf classes are really slim pickings and nobody is even touching on how their new high elf OC won’t get any choices that make sense to them but instead get the ones that make sense to void elfs (which this forum has stated really only is shadow priest).