I have something to share which can be considered good news which is if you look at it the right way. Mirasol while not a blue is a high trusted, highly regarded and highly informed MVP who says she has spoke to devs before in the past. The two big things to keep in mind that she says:
- Allied races are planned years in advance prior to the expansion released in and similar things that require big changes like that.
Why can this be seen as good news? A lot of people here are upset that we got mechagnomes instead of sethrak. However since there was no way any lobbying effort could have stopped this from happening, I don’t think Sethrak fans should feel like they failed or weren’t listened to. Especially cause of the next part.
- They do take requests on the forum into consideration.
However she mentions that big changes like allied races likely wouldn’t come to fruition until future expansions. What this means is that who knows? The lobby effort here may actually result in sethrak being playable? Look what happened with high elves. Even if its not sethrak there may be a cool reptillian race added at some point? For some time I was beginning to think threads like these are waste of time, but now I know from a possibly reliable source that it does matter. This knowledge may help as a source of inspiration for people here and also help people feel more at peace since they know nothing could have been done in bfa to change the planned allied races.
I should reiterate though that she is not a blue either so I wouldn’t take this as 100% the ground rule. It does seem very likely to be true though and the source is pretty reliable.