One can say that a lot of Blizzard’s current problems come from the fact that it is trying to dictate what its customers must consume, rather than listen to them and provide something closer to their wishes.
It’s not about doing everything the customer wants. It’s about trying to checklist its wants and bring meaninful answers for them.
Even void elves could have been way better if Blizzard had just listened to our threads last year. We ourselves provided a lot of feedback on how to make them acceptable. Nothing was done.
And it’s not just about high elves. Almost every Alliance allied race missed its target audience. And no one ever asked for Azerite gear.
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As long as there are any High Elves in the current game world then having them playable is valid. Even if there were only 1000 left in all of Azeroth they each have stories and each have the potential for the same Heroic acts as any other being. Lore based population has no bearing on whether a being of a certain race can’t become the hero of a story. The Last of the Mohicans is a perfect example of that working.
It would actually be interesting from an RP perspective to play a member of a near extinct ancient race. That’s a trope used for Elves and Elvish type races throughout the fantasy landscape.
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No, they are just one of the many aspects in which Blizzard has failed to understand what -part- of their audience wants, and BfA has been the expansion when so many parts of the audence’s feedback has been dismissed that at this point it’s a whole more like the majority of the playerbase which has a grievance ith Blizzard’s handling of things.
The High Elf issue has been mismanaged, undoubtedly. You don’t get to decide it didn’t because it wasn’t about you. Blizzard was dismissive and didn’t even consider the feedback given, and regardless if you think people that want High Elves have a case or not, Blizzard’s dismissive attitude is 100% on them, not on the audience for wanting something.
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Why do you get to decide it was mismanaged?
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because it is an issue that affects us
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Thats not good enough. It effects me if you guys had the High Elves so to say i dont have skin in the game is just wrong.
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Because the game is clearly losing popularity and subscriptions, and it’s foolish to give up on things that would be cheap to develop but provide a lot of good will from the playerbase. Like high elves.
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The only affect it has on you is you have to see them in game unless of course you want to play one. You are basically arguing that mythic level raiding and gladiator rank pvp concerns you even though you don’t raid past normal and don’t run arenas.
(note I have no idea what you do or don’t do I am just making an example)
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That’s overly simplistic to think High Elves will save the game. Or one of the things, you’re just saying that cus you want them not cus you believe thjat.
Because it was something that affected people that wanted High Elves.
And here’s the thing, you are framing yourself as the the type of person that simply dismisses any grievance if it doesn’t personally affect you or what you want.
And instead, chose to believe that anyone that says that there was a mismanagement of how Blizzard went about High Elves, as being simply wrong.
You are dismissing an experience because you personally can’t understand it. No one is asking you to be pro-High Elf, but when you don’t believe that people felt dismissed, it’s not because they are wrong for feeling like that, but because you are unable of putting yourself on someone else’s shoes.
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Well blood elves certainly saved the horde back in BC. shrug
We are not saying high elves solve everything. No one thing solves everything. To fix the game and regain the goodwill of the audience that remains and more importantly have left over the years will require a lot of things.
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I raid heroic and Mythic when i can. In the long list of reasons against you can find why it effects us. Again this seems to come back to pros being dismissive of others feelings that do not align with their own. And to the extent of dismissing blizzard despite that its their game and their words until reversed are canon.
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High elves are just the most obvious example of Blizzard’s mismanagement of resources. There was no easier race to introduce in the game, and yet they made another one that lacks any quality in their introduction. A dumb move.
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Why should we not be dismissive of people who’s entire feelings and wishes is to essentially deny something to someone else.
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That’s hypocritical talking about being in someone elses shoes.
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Because getting what you want all the time by default is a bad idea.
well I have gotten very little of what I want. What I want especially involving WoW in comparison high elves are a very reasonable request.
it isn’t like we are making a request that goes against pre existing lore or is entirely something new out of nowhere.
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To others its not a reasonable request, and then this is where you dismiss us. You fail to take into account how others feel and how you getting what you want impacts others. it’s selfish.
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Why? I main Horde on my Blood Elf, and that is not going to change if we get High Elves. If you believe that for me this is an issue about Horde/Alliance fanatism, you clearly don’t know what I am about.
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how does it impact them? how is player choice regarding what race they play a negative?
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