You used to see it at every blizzcon and it was a huge driving factor for BFAâs massive day one sales.
âFor the Horde.â
âFor the Alliance.â
People were pumped about BFA⊠and seemed less pumped when they realize the other team wasnât going to eat it.
I donât really think thatâs true actually. Iâve had friends genuinely be upset that I play on both sides.
Blood Elf players have no place having any faction pride for the Horde. Itâs literally an Alliance race given to the red faction to tempt Alliance players over.
Huh Iâve had the opposite experience, or if they do joke about it itâs done ironically. Also there were quite a few threads on reddit denouncing the decision.
Interesting.
Most Horde players are Blood Elf players so some are the kind of player that wants to play on the Horde but doesnât actually want to look the part.
Itâs especially funny when itâs a Blood Elf female screaming Lokâtarogar in slutmogs.
Then thereâs people like you who just enjoy the aesthetic and are more interested in Blood Elves in particular rather than the Horde identity. Iâm one of those people as well but as WoW has become more tribal Iâve found it harder to play a Blood Elf. Void Elves basically skewered anything that was left.
Is it a crime?
So on top of trying to use the non true Scotsman again and again, youâre telling people what they should do with their pride?
Still thinking youâre an authority of anything, hm?
Not really, heâs trying to pick at any single straw he can find related to something heâs salty about (blood elves being in the Horde) so he can attempt to put them down.
Blood elves make up about 20% of the population for the horde. They are the most popular but do not contribute to the majority of the horde which is 80% everyone else.
You really shouldnt throw any shade when you are just one class off from a stereotype.
You also really harmed the atgument for high elves by stating joyeuse likes the aesthetic, which applies also with salacious mogs btw, because it means you have the aesthetoc already and dont need to duplicate it.
SoâŠyeahâŠ
No on blood elves for the alliance. Otherwise, void elves are pointless, and that isnt healthy design.
We need unique races, not more pretty ones.
I know youâre seriousâŠso I wonât ask if this ridiculous statement is serious.
Youâre actually saying that people who came to WoW without WC3 experience, who have come to the game post TBC, have no business having any pride in the faction they play because they chose to play Blood Elves?
I typically donât waste the effort to respond to you - but this one?
For the Horde!
Seriously, Joy. Out of all the nonsense youâve spouted, this really takes the cake.
As Iâve said before, for me the story of High Elves is one of betrayal and a lack of honor. I know the âthey stayed loyal to the Alliance!â argument, but to me that says âWe decided that staying with the Alliance outweighs any loyalty to my Sovereign, my people (they were all one people at the time, those not living in Silvermoon or its environs were simply ex-pats at that point in history), honoring my fallen brethren, and it outweighs joining them in their struggle to rebuild.â
Had it been written that way; had the Alliance High Elf story been written in such a way that itâs acknowledged - up front and prominently - and that they are viewed by other Alliance races as âYes, we appreciate your loyalty to usâŠbut damn, you left your own people high and dry when they needed you. If youâll do that, can we really trust you?â then maybe I could see it. I would still struggle with cloned races, but at least from a story perspective I could have gotten behind it.
This is, of course, aside from the âwhat the hell, BlizzâŠyou could have just had the story of the Void Elves being one where they are all former High Elves who were forcibly converted instead of Blood Elves and this whole thing could have been over with.â issue. It would have been so easyâŠ
I guess you missed all the Alliance players that chime in and say that it wonât happen whenever someone escapes the containment areas.
Let me guess⊠fake Alliance players, right?
EDIT: Wait, why did it make me reply to Murg�
Got to really yell it, that helm of his looks thick.
FOR THE HORDE!!
The traitors to their race narrative doesnât apply particularly well though.
You could say itâs true of the Mage-Priests that decided to ignore the recall to Silvermoon, at the beginning of the Third War because they felt like Azeroth needed their help.
But theyâre not forsaking Silvermoon, theyâre just altruistic.
Then there are the High Elves from Dalaran, which was a Lordaeron city-state. Theyâre part of the Alliance. This is where the High Elf Sorcerers (Sorceresses) in the Third War were from.
So, not only were they attacked by Arthas first and evacuated, but theyâre also not completely affiliated with Silvermoon either.
Then youâve got the Quelâdanil elves, they were actually trying to evacuate Children from Silvermoon to Quelâdanil during Arthasâs invasion. But, those guys live with the Wildhammer Dwarves.
I think the only real, âTraitor Elfâ narrative you could find would be the Quelâlithien Elves, theyâre the ones from Silvermoon who refused to drain mana.
This bit happened after Arthasâs invasion. So they certainly werenât forsaking Silvermoon. They were with Silvermoon through the slaughter, but afterwards just refused to be a part of the bad things going on so they got exiled.
Blaming some Dalaran Elves of not being there for Silvermoon is like blaming some Kulâtirans for not being there for Gilneas. Theyâre different nations.
Well⊠as far as fake Alliance players are concerned, maybe.
Itâs not hard to have a low level alt. Also, with level boosts available every expansion, itâs not particularly hard to have a High level alt.
But like I said, itâs kind of part of a grouping.
Are kind of the majority that we see. Itâs not like Alliance doesnât have trolls and itâs not like the High Elf request isnât a juicy target for that.
Yeah, thatâs all I needed.
First the one that thinks they are an authority on what one should do, then you declaring who is or isnât a âtrue Alliance playerâ, what a piece of work.
And you double down with assumptionsâŠ
And by labeling them as mentally unsound based on one article that you cherrypicked from Google.
But the real question isâŠ
Did you measure it?
And this is the part where we agree to disagree. 
The story is, of course, a matter of perception and point of view. You have one perspective on it and I have another. From a Night Elf perspective though - I actually donât care much for any of you, regardless of faction. 
Haha. I didnât declare anybody a âTrue Alliance Playerâ
and itâs ironic to see you talk about assumptions. You spend all your time here trying to demonize people who make the High Elf request.
Youâve also, âDecidedâ that itâs because they want elves with âSnow Whiteâ morality. But thatâs because you feel like if High Elves are playable itâll make the Blood Elves, âThe Bad Guys.â
and then, finishing off with the tease. laughs
Man I love that⊠Throw some meme animated gifs at me while youâre at it, or call in the boys to dogpile me. It makes my day. You guys are so obsessed with me. 
I respect you a lot and enjoy discussing it with you. No worries.
I main Alliance and I for sure do not want playable Alliance high elves. I assume most of us play both and go back and forth.
âMaybeâ itâs not the same than saying âNo, of course theyâre not fake Alliance playersâ.
And there you go, doubling down with the assumptions.
What in the blazes are you talking about?
What can I say, it was beautifully hilarious.
Careful, that ego might get a little heavy.
Well, I have bad news for you.
Youâre not a real Alliance player.
Sorry, I donât make the rules, but apparently, he does