I can see the OP is a bit emotional over this, but I, personally, do not mind having to earn the races at all. Now, as an aside, I certainly did not like having to wait 6 months to make my Zandalarian trolls, but I have them now and they are awesome and I did not mind playing the game to get them. It’s like in my huge
I think they should make even more things locked behind achievements- relevant achievements. Allied races are cool and fun and are something one earns. I’ll also make this point- at least I have to know about them. In other words, I have played since vanilla and in MoP they introduced the Pandarens. They are playable, but I, to this day, have no idea why they are on the Horde and Alliance. I know I could make one, but if it has more than two toes and three fingers- I don’t play it. If I would have had to do some things in-game to unlock them, at least I know why the heck they exist at all. Same for Worgen and Goblins. I haven’t a clue what’s going on with them. Logged in and BAM goblins were in Azshara.