They’re snakes. Snakes don’t have eyelids. There’s no reason to animate blinking when blinking never happens.
Helmets on the PTR looked very bad on Vulpera as well, chopping off their noses. It would just be something that would need to be worked out.
I haven’t played the Alliance side of BFA ( I know, I should) so I can’t argue your other points on quests and such, but these two points I don’t agree with.
Not necessarily convinced, as far as I am concerned. But I definitely have a mighty NEED for playable Sethrak and Alliance Sethrak is just my preference. 
I will take them for Horde though. When it gets down to it I just want them playable and that transcends the faction debate. That being said, Alliance Sethrak is not impossible as of current. Maybe improbable but Blizzard just needs to find a reason to make them Alliance and it could happen.
I am going to parrot that their eyes are not an issue. Snakes don’t blink and their eyes are fixed in their sockets so eye movement is extremely limited and exaggerated head turning movement would easily suffice. They also have a “closed” eye animation for their sleep, death and stun emotes.
And helmets are not an issue. Look at Worgen and Tauren. We say hello. Then Mechagnomes also blow that argument out of the water as is pointed out.
It was only delusion.
said the man wearing a pirate costume who summons demons. 
Its not that far off, even for the Alliance. I’ll grant it would take some effort by Blizzard but you can feasibly come up with scenarios where it would come to pass. Come by the Sethrak thread and we can discuss more there. 
I don’t believe it was convinced we’d get them as much as it was hopeful that we would. The story could have easily been leaned in the Ally’s favor with helping them in Vol’dun, could have even had the good Sethrak at odds with the Vulpera to make it work better. But no. Instead of getting what would be the coolest looking race in the game we got DiaperGnomes. Ugh blizz, really?
Because we aided the sethrak in the beginning of the war campaign before the horde talked to them and the vulpera are their sworn enemies. They wouldn’t join the horde who allowed vulpera in.
Not really, you just repeart horde part of quest, but for horde it’s actually part of overall zandalar story with G’huun
Actually @stompypotato, that would be kinda cool, lol. <3
I did it on both sides, at the top of the temple as a horde, you’ll notice an artifact placed on top of their temple. The alliance placed it there. It wasn’t there until alliance came in and helped them then we walked up with them and placed it. If you go there pre-war campaign on alliance its not there yet.
Can confirm the Alliance recovered the first keystone and saved Vorrik’s life in the process. This is not a copy paste.
They talked themselves into believing it. That’s the long and short of it.
Checkmate xD
The problem is that the only interaction that Sethraks have with Alli is that Alli saved their leaders. And that’s it. The horde have entire questlines with them.
In the really hypothetical case that Sethraks are made playable, and in the even more hypothetical case that they go Alli, Blizz would have to screw over all the work that horde players have done with them, and we all know blizz would never do that to the horde xD.
… because Vulpera…
Don’t think people were convinced it was happening, they just really wanted it to happen.
As far as lore goes, who cares? Blizzard already proved they’d invent races from thin air and come up with the barest of bare excuses to add other races to certain factions.
alliance should get sethrak, because snakes belong with snakes
(it was a joke, dont start a war over it, or ill start burning tree druids and call it teldrassil part 2, sylvanas boogaloo)
To be fair, I didn’t even see vulpera were that impactful in the zone storyline in order to become allied race for Horde. Almost everything was sethrak, I’m pretty sure the reason why vulpera were chosen as allied race over gilgoblins (which made more sense for me) was their explosive popularity.
I actually felt the opposite. Most was vulpera and exiled troll to me. Huh…
I think the demand for sethrakk just goes to show that its time blizz added some kind of playable reptilian race.
Sethrakk are neat, but thanks to their head shape I think some of the games other reptile races would make a better candidate for being an allied race. Namely the drakonid or even the saurok.
I would love naga to be playable, but I don’t see that happening unless they make some lore reason to give them legs. Their tails would cause WAY too many clipping issues with mounts.
I’ll take it.
I didn’t see anyone convinced we’d get them, just hopeful that we would. Because they would be a new, distinct, unique race. Like the Horde got.