The High Elf Love Thread 🥰

[Lorithyn-agamaggan (Lorithyn)]

I’d probably pay for and play a High Elf just to scratch that itch before leaving the game for good. It may depend on how much they’d charge me for it

[Fliktarg-emerald-dream]

my suggestion isn’t a retcon. It is an expansion on them.

[Seteth-agamaggan]

True, but making High Elves available via Void Elves as a development would feel like a bandaid to me. I’d rather they admit the mistake and make it right

[Cezol-darkspear]

People don’t really think this is how businesses operate

And you think it isn’t why?

Where the gaming industry has become 80% “hype”, and 90% “quick cash services” you don’t think a “break glass Incase of” moment wouldn’t net them a great amount of income?

I can tell you right now the already disgruntled Alliance would flip their lid to a “hype, pro Alliance moment” like a High Elves. Netting them easy money.

So I can easily see it being a smart “business decision”, especially with the already crashed and burned ship that was this expansion and was is essentially becoming the Warcraft IP.

[Itoldyouso-illidan]

Where the gaming industry has become 80% “hype”, and 90% “quick cash services” you don’t think a “break glass Incase of” moment wouldn’t net them a great amount of income?

The logic does not work from a business perspective nor from a monetary one. Money that is not gained today has less worth tomorrow because it cannot be used for past investments. You have no understanding of how businesses work if you truly believe they have “break glass” strategies such as high elves.

I can tell you right now the already disgruntled Alliance would flip their lid to a “hype, pro Alliance moment” like a High Elves. Netting them easy money.

Do you have any research to support this statement or is this your feeling?
Hint: The most popular option isn’t the best option.
If 11% of the population wants high elves, and thats the number 1 option, that means 89% of your customer base wants something else and it is not worth investing.

[Firewoman-spirestone]

It was a fact the official wow ending had 1.6 likes and 6.5 dislike and was pulled. That innocent so loving company that could do no wrong you defend did it. So believe it. Well at least for his 10 years of planning, N’zoth got a 22 sec video finale.

Don’t care.

[Firewoman-spirestone]

Terrible video with a silly pov.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Spoken like a true knight.

[Cezol-darkspear]

Terrible video

This video with nothing but facts against my boot licking is dumb because it shows an Alliance High Elf the entire time and flips my “all High Elves are Blood elves” table.

Okay Stella.

[Tarrok-thorium-brotherhood (Tarrok)]

Well, fighting from the position of “The people who design the game and all the lore in it are wrong, here’s a small time youtuber to explain the TRUTH!” is an uphill battle. Or upcliff battle.

[Firewoman-spirestone]

It’s simply bias confirmation on the helfer’s part. Look someone just like you and I made a video put it on utube, repeats the same tired arguments the helfers do, so now it means something.

[Cezol-darkspear]

So go ahead and start quoting your points for the “against” in this video, cause until you do your outcry of “bias” seems purely personal, as we all know this topic is for you.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Then we simply agree to disagree, but please dont put out misinformation for your opinion.

[Fezzy-draenor (Fezzy)]

I’m curious; In your opinion were they executed well in their introduction?

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

The problem is that BfA was so… lame about the Void stuff that I am almost glad the VE’s didn’t get roped into it lol.

Maybe next time we delve into the void from a cosmic perspective -which is honestly more in line with how they were presented on Argus related to Alleria- rather than just parasites on the planet’s crust.

IMO the Old Gods were the most boring part of the whole Void thing. The possibilities now, are endless.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

They clearly had a purpose, that’s why they are playable. Blizzard being incompetent and not exploiting that purpose properly it’s an entire different story.

“They clearly had a purpose we just didn’t see it” What?

I think you are mistaking purpose for potential. They do have a lot of the later, and it’s still yet to be seen, but purpose, on the current narrative? Not at all.

So again, What was the purpose of introducing the Void Elves pre-BfA?

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

The possibilities now, are endless.

Possibilities are always endless.
It’s the implementation that worries me.

I lost my faith in Blizzard’s ability to deliver a story. It’s broken now.

Void elves will probably remain irrelevant for the whole of Shadowlands, which means it will be another two years before they have any chance of doing anything.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

I don’t think they were a bad idea at all.

I agree tbh, but sadly, none of their potential has been realized, and without any meaningful set up, they just feel shallow. When will we get actual developments with them? Hope it’s soon. But doesn’t seem Shadowlands will have space for it.

[Talendrion-wyrmrest-accord (Talendrion)]

Possibilities are always endless.
It’s the implementation that worry me.

I lost my faith in Blizzard’s ability to deliver a story. It’s broken now.

I mean that is sadly on point; but I do believe they can still tell good stories, just not always.

Void elves will probably remain irrelevant for the whole of Shadowlands, which means it will be another two years before they have any chance of doing anything.

Yes, and we can only hope the cosmic horror expansion about light and void is good.

[Cezol-darkspear]

Maybe next time we delve into the void from a cosmic perspective -which is honestly more in line with how they were presented on Argus related to Alleria- rather than just parasites on the planet’s crust.

If they had taken the cosmic angle from the beginning I would be more open to this, but the second they get Voidified, Alleria is talking about “controlling the whispers” and “I hear them under us constantly”, shes obviously alluding to the Old Gods which has been our only hard representation of the universe’s Void influence, so a patch where an Old god is free and “whispers and madness” is the #1 storyline, there couldn’t be a more obvious group to deal with it other than the Void elves and Blizzard apparently thought otherwise.

So I don’t buy their “potential” or “purpose” they couldn’t have had a more perfect scenario set up for them with this patch and as they intended from the beginning with Void Elves, it’s a throw away.