Sorry they’re more popular than most of our other races?
Imagine thinking core race is a priority because daddy blizzard said so, far as I’m concerned the horde is 90% blood elf and 9% Vulpera, so the definition of “core” has changed.
No personal issues here, I just love to point out how silly you concerns are “Muh cOrE rAcE” “Muh IdeNtiTy” “Muh imMeRsiOn”. Blizzard does not care about these complaints, they are a business and if giving alliance high elves customization will bring them money from the race change or even faction change, then they will do it.
At my last job we had a contract to design software for an industrial vehicle and midway through the client told us they’d purchased an entirely different machine and threw a huge hissy fit and threatened to drop the contract if the cost and timeline got shifted. I’m still salty about it.
Schedule is NOT. Devs work according to schedule and sometimes the economical and/or technnical advantages they can gain from customer support. The second is the reason Velves will get skin tones at the same time as Belves, cause it´s the same freaking code so they can save a bunch of time NOW so afterwards they can devote MORE time brainstorming when the scheduled time for Velves arrives. Ergo more creative margin.
I think this summarizes a lot of concerns. A lot of us aren’t even against additional ideas for VE’s (speaking for myself I guess) but the fear is BE’s will not get our due, and then VE’s will get it twice, and I think its fair to point that out to Blizzard in this thread.
Welcome to the real professional work, where the client can be an a-hole and you still have to take it and move on… for the sake of the company (nothing worse than a disgruntled customer, those are VERY dangerous).
It all comes down to the concept of “scheduling work while in design”. Most people doesn´t get it, but time is a REALLY important variable. You can´t recover lost time, you can just sacrifice your own FREE time to try to catch up.
That´s why saying “I like this but I don´t like this” IS basic etiquette in design work. Cause only massive jerks don´t point the stuff they rather change until it´s almost too late.