The kelfin love/allied race discussion thread ✿

[Gnomest-sargeras (Gnomest)]

I haven’t responded in a while as my frame of mind had changed on allied races and I was beginning to think threads like these were a complete waste of time and was even ready to request a moderator lock this thread because I felt this thread may be getting to spammy and was just pointless worrying at this point. That was until I saw this:

I want to talk directly to devs

Allied races and world design go with the story. Those are planned out YEARS in advance. Game mechanics, the major ones, are also planned out well in advance. So if they want to revamp the crafting system, they would start that way before the expansion where the changes happen. Smaller gameplay changes such as tweaks to the systems they have selected for that expansion happen during development, internal testing, Alpha, Beta, and even after release in patches. Yes, it does matter. However, t…

Mirasol says that allied races are planned years in advance which tells me 2 things.

1. There was nothing anyone could have every done within bfa to sway the potential allied races.

2. Allied race requests are listened to, but they likely won’t act on them for a long time since it requires a lot of pre-emptive work. So this does mean that there is in fact merit to making such requests in that they may become a thing one day.

It is worth noting that mirasol doesn’t work at blizzard, but she claims to have spoken with devs in person and is one of the most highly regarded and notable MVPs.