This is coming from a blueberry main, I was actually skeptical about VE’s obtaining natural skin tones and high elf eyes. But I use them, I enjoy them. The drawback is that it does take away from Void/Blood elf identity.
Here’s the thing: Factions exist. If Alliance and Horde weren’t a thing I probably wouldn’t argue this point as much, but they are and are core to the game and are never going away. Blood elves deserve to be their own race, as do Void elves. I understand it the idea of having natural hair styles or color tones may sound appealing to us blueberries, (I’d love a nice ginger elf!) but hair is the one thing that differentiates VEs from BEs.
Otherwise why not just have Nightborne steal all of the Night Elf customizations? Why not pointlessly give them vines and physical night elven traits? Because they are DIFFERENT RACES with DIFFERENT HISTORIES. And before you try to tell me that Void elves used to be Blood elves, yes, they did. But they were physically transformed by the void. They are no longer exactly the same, nor should they be.
I’m an Alliance main, but if you want the Blood elf hair tones play a Blood elf. They deserve to feel like their own race on their own faction. Be thankful Blizzard caved and gave us VEs some natural skin tones.
I don’t really understand the point of attacking factions like that. I see just as many Hordies on here complaining as Alliance so I don’t think that’s really the point.
Yeah, I’d enjoy some more void options for us! Or at least implement the ear length options like they did with the other core elven races. ^-^
If that’s what you think I’m doing, the point went way over your head.
You said something in your OP that makes perfect sense and it would make things balanced:
The forums are a world of its own, and I can assure you, that the sort of logic they’d use if this were to happen, is that it would be a proof of “Horde bias” despite of what happened with Void Elves.
I’m willing to bet that, giving it some time, you’ll even get examples of that exact thing right in this thread.
I’m fairly ambivalent toward most of the BE hair colors but it would be nice for Velves to get a true black and a true white.
It’s worth mentioning that the allied races will supposedly be getting updates at some point on the same scale as the core races just got. It’s been said to be on the agenda.
Personally I think they probably should have waited to give the VE the BE skins until they got their actual customization pass so it could be seen as one complete project (assuming they got better void options alongside them) but I guess they wanted to just appease some of the high elf stans.
Well I can’t give you the numbers as it’s not an easy thing to document, but my impression of this forum is that there is a large number of people who believe there is a ‘horde bias’ by the devs and alliance players are continually treated badly.
Or they could have used the chance to truly cement their visual identity as people affected by the void and make them more distinct and their own thing, instead of washing them down and turning them into a copy/paste.
