Take this from someone that has no interest in High Elves or looking like one: The Void Elves were an insult to Alliance players.
High Elves have been working alongside the Alliance since the days of the RTS. An opportunity finally arose to give the race to the faction (and help their already declining numbers) and instead of doing the right thing they give the Alliance bootleg Blood Elves.
These High Elf skin and eye colors won’t help the faction imbalance and at this point I don’t think they even care. They’ve been just focusing on the Horde since 8.1 and giving scraps to the Alliance.
The only reason the VEs are getting these options is because it takes no effort to implement them since they were planned for BEs from the beggining (remember the earlier datamines, found as BE options, no mention of VE); scraps again.
i know right? i completely agree
we should’ve got sethrak instead to avoid all of this
no one dislikes snakes 
It was only an ‘insult’ to the people who chose to be insulted because they wanted something they didn’t and couldn’t have.
Alliance players didn’t all want high elves…only some of them did.
Majority wanted high elves to be fair. Void elves were kinda a slap in the face of this games longest fans. You dont repeatedly ask for something for 10+ years without being a die hard wow fan, just saiyan.
After all high elves are the BAR NONE most requested race ever in world of warcraft, that’s just an indisputable fact tbh.
Why?
There’s a lot more lore to back up High Elves on the Alliance than there is for most Allied races on either faction.
theres more lore for high elves than there is for
Mechagnomes
Nightborne
Vulpera
Certainly more than void elves, in #s too
Draenor orcs aka alternate reality orcs
Lightforged draenei
Etc
In all honesty theres more lore for alliance high elves than almost any race.
Edit: also tbh blood elves dont even really fit the horde, your teamed up with undead and orcs both of which killed a TON of elves. Besides the genocide undead did to high elves garithos is nothing. In a real world theres absolutely 0% chance blood elves would even consider joining the horde.
No…not to be fair or accurate.
You sure are full of words but no facts.
Which other race was requested since vanilla? Sorry I cant seem to recall. You may not agree or like it but THEY ARE the most requested race, denying that fact does nothing.
15 years, that’s how long they were requested for, 15 freaking years… Only race that comes close to such demand are ogres. I swear High elves to blizzard is exactly like the Number Three to Valve.
At this point? These people have been so inflammatory and invested in something that has absolutely no bearing on anything relatively important since the very beginning.
It’s not a fact, it’s your perception.
100% Wrong. I’m sorry but I’m not gonna argue fact with youc us you dont like it. Accept the truth and move on.
You’ll never be able to prove your ‘facts’ because there are no accurate numbers. You can believe the helfer kool aid though. But you have no proof.
15 years of ppl asking isnt enough proof? What other race even has half that time being requested? Come on dude use ur brain…
If u dont accept that as proof arguing with you is pointless, as you will NEVER acknowledge anything at all.
Loved your post op
helfers being rude to anyone who thought that maybe they didn’t like a horde race going over to the Alliance is the only reason I even cared about the whole thing.
Now I get to sit back and be vindicated about some people never being happy.
Anyone that’s arguing on the internet over elves in a 15+ year old video game is pretty annoying, considering the state of the world.
That’s exactly what it is. It’s entitlement and psychopathy at it’s finest. They feel entitled to happiness and anyone else who wants to be happy playing a race that they actually want to play shouldn’t be able to because it interferes with their own perceived entitlement that only they should be allowed to be happy, everyone else should be miserable and unhappy. It’s psychopathic behavior and no different than torturing a small animal because it amuses you with no regard for how it makes that animal feel because you don’t care about anyone else’s feelings but your own.
Most play video games to escape reality. I’ve had to deal with racism and violence my whole life (most of which was pre-internet/video games anyways). I’m sorry that you’re too entitled to empathize with others’ plight and believe they should just be living in Hell and misery 24/7 without reprieve.