That’s the PC way of saying “we may change our stance if needed”.
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Or its the PC way of saying, “We messed up by adding Void Elves, but we can’t add High Elves so soon after them.”
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Blizzard developers stated pretty definitively that classic servers won’t happen:
Executive Producer J, Allen Brack there shooting it down,
So it’s definitely not going to-… Hmm?
Oh.
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Messed up? Void Elves are the most popular allied race by far. By every measure they have been a success. No need to open the can of worms that is High Elves with numbers like these.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276315/distribution-of-world-of-warcraft-characters-by-race/If your customers keep requesting golden vanilla icecream and you instead put blueberry icecream on the market and they buy it just because it’s icecream and not because they’re satisfied, is it really a success? Especially when that customer base that wants golden vanilla starts to stop buying your products when your competitors give them ice cream flavors closer to what they want?
Analogy aside, your statement is flawed. If it had been High Elves instead of Void Elves, the numbers would likely have been just as high, if not higher.
A better question here might be, how much money will Blizzard make from players re-customizing their Void Elves to High Elves? That’d be a nice boost for the quarterly reports.
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People keep talking about Ion stepping down eventually. J. Allen Brack was promoted after eating crow on that. He still works for the company and they changed their minds.
You’re assuming a majority of customers want that. What’s more likely is that the pro High Elf people are just a vocal minority. Blood Elves are the most played race on either faction. Their being a Horde race doesn’t seem to be a negative for those players.
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Well, the High Elves are the most requested Allied Race to date, so I think it’s safe to say it’s not a vocal minority asking for them. People have been asking for High Elves as a playable race on the Alliance since Vanilla, and with the Allied Race system, that request has only gotten more popular. Developers have acknowledged this.
So, it’s not likely a request from a minority of the playerbase. I suppose we’ll find out when/if they’re added.
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I’m curious about where you’re getting your polling data from.
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The majority of players are Horde.
The majority of Horde players are Blood Elves.
Therefor, the majority of players like Blood Elves on the Horde, and aren’t looking to copy them over to the Alliance.
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This is true.
This is also true.
This is conjecture. Not that I imagine many Blood Elves would switch to the Alliance just to be a High Elf. After all, they’re likely over there for the larger community from which to pull for raiding and PvP, and perhaps the racial benefits as well, particularly Blood Elf racial.
So I’m not sure what your point here is? I doubt Blizzard designs Allied Races to pull from one faction to another? They should be designed for the factions they’re being added to, after all, and High Elves are a perfect fit within the Alliance where they’ve been since Vanilla.
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Why the devs are even bothering to give Alliance anything anyway? My i never thought about that, ty for the enlightenment.
Blizzard disagrees, which is why we got Void Elves instead.
Pretty sure we’ve been over why we received Void Elves before High Elves. To summarize: visual distinction between the factions during a faction conflict expansion is important. Thankfully this expansion is meant to wrap up the faction conflict, meaning that after BFA is over, visual distinction will not be so stringent.
Dude i didn’t get your point, just because Blood Elves are a popular race and there are morde Horde than Alliance players it means that Blizzard shouldn’t cater to Alliance player demands? Allied race demands aren’t supposed to cater to all of the god damm playerbase of the game. Ma’ghar Orcs were a really popular player demand but it wasn’t everyone that wanted them, that doesn’t mean that making them playable was a bad move, by just making a decent amount of people happy just on the Horde side alone was a success.
Evolve this argumentation, if feels you are being just a Horde apologist.
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This is peak begging the question fallacy.
I’m a Blood Elf. I want Quel’dorei to be playable.
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Void Elves are popular sure. I like them a lot. But they don’t give me what I want. They give me something entirely different. Something I enjoy, but nothing remotely close to the High Elf fantasy I am looking for.
With that said, as an attempt to assuage those asking for High Elves, Void Elves are an abject failure. They do not provide the High Elf fantasy being sought. not even close. No Blood Elves do not provide that fantasy either.
And as popular as Void Elves are, I am fairly confident that High Elves will exceed their numbers if we get them.
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Expect no less than a quarter of the Void Elf characters to race change to High Elves if it ever happens. And probably 10% of the Blood Elf ones.
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I expect less than a quarter of Void Elf characters to remain Void Elves if High Elves are added, to be honest.
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I have quite a few Void Elves now.
Mage, Priest, Warlock, Hunter, Rogue, Monk
If we get High Elves (or Half Elves) I will race change my Void Elf Hunter, my Human Paladin, and maybe my Void Elf Rogue (I’m iffy on that one). So that’s 20% to 40% of my Void Elves he he.
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