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Oh we're playing this game.
Here's your quote.
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Notice the hypocrisy?
Difference between you and others is that what pro-High Elf players want is an experience that only Blizzard can provide but what you want is to deny that experience (as if you even have that power to begin with). And fact is, that particular opinion is pointless because it has absolutely no benefit to Blizzard, and a far stronger one would be to discuss what experience YOU would want within its own context.
And surprise surprise, Allied Race enthusiasts can all discuss the merits of their own desires without hating on others. They aren't mutually exclusive.
I mean if you are gonna say stuff demeaning like "thats all ill exchange with you" then stick to your guns dude. Don't half bake it cus it makes you look silly.
Yes, i would deny you the high elf experience for reasons we've gone over ad nauseum. I've gone in for the compromise of Half Elves so really the only problem i see here is Pro High Elfers. Let me repeat this again and again, What benefits blizzard is two things. 1. not pissing off half a userbase in order to please a small pocket of fanatics and 2. You can't bribe your way into making bad decisions. No Helf in 14 years? Hmmmmm i wonder why if its such a cash cow as you lot claim.
Ok your last two sentences are silly. I just watched the ClassiCast today that had Vanilla WoW Developer Kevin Jordan (this was the guy in charge of class tuning all 27 specs back then).
Starts at 01:04:58 : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/322800595
The question came up what was the deal with the Night Elf wielding Warglaives in the Game Case pamphlet thingy, his answer?
That at the time their idea of "Hero Classes" thinking was of giving Night Elf Fury Warriors a sequence of quests as way to "transform his looks and abilities" into becoming full-fledged Demon Hunters
This ended up not going through NOT because of any "popularity reasons" (as we know DHs are one of the more popular classes in today's WoW environment) but due to at the time it was a very specific Race-Class combination (IE content that can't be experienced by everyone in a time where they needed to prioritize content availability for everyone).
They even wanted to add in DHs in TBC but the technology for what they wanted to do with the DH wasn't there yet.
Then in MoP one of the design guys wanted the Demonology Warlock spec to play like a "God of War" style gameplay where you'd be jumping in and out of combat.
Lo and behold by the time Legion came out, all their ideas for the DH came about in a very well executed way. Blizzard is prone to changing their mind/iterating on their ideas, that's how someone stays creative. Especially when multiple times it's easy to see how often they plan something internally only for that idea to end up changing later or being incredibly modified.
So this idea of "if it's so popular it would've already been put in" is misguided, because we don't really know the reasons for why something isn't getting put in at the moment. Even if Blizzard gives reasons for why something isn't in the game now, doesn't mean their perspective can't change later. They have an internal priority list that none of us are privy to.
Especially if they leave the door open with a "anything's possible" unlike say Pathfinder where they repeatedly have said it's here to stay multiple times.
We as players can only let our wants be known.
But it is true, that denying the inclusion of something adds nothing to Blizzard's game. This doesn't mean they have to add every single request ever, but if your sole argument is that you're only going to be satisfied by denying content that a portion of the playerbase wants, then that's automatically a loss for Blizzard.
You're essentially saying, "hey don't add this content that people would give you extra money for (in form of race/faction changes) on top of their regular amount so that I can continue enjoying the game as it is now and giving you the same regular amount of money I've always been giving you."
It's not as if you're getting something added into the game by keeping High Elves out.