They don’t particularly want anything though… other than blue eyes because they didn’t want High Elf players to have them.
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This was not only an unprofessional decision but also a very dumb one. The resources spend on these character updates are minimal compared to landscapes and designing enviroments. On the plus side, they have also many hidden or unavailable customization options which do not even need to be designed but only linked with the player creation tool. Very amateurish deciding people working at Blizzard, honestly.
I have seen all the available videos in the past. I extremely dislike the one developer who mocked the Alliance-players who apparently needed “assistance” from AI bots. Very offensive towards paying customers. He should be fired for this alone.
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I think it depends on the customization in question. New haircolors shouldn’t really be tricky. A new face might not be super difficult? I think it’d be involved because it needs to fit the skeleton and mesh properly for facial expressions or talking animations or the likes. Jewelry is adding a new asset to the model/skeleton, so that needs more than a skin of jewelry, I should think.
I’ll admit now I know nothing about what goes on with creating new customization, but some of these additions really do seem more involved.
I also don’t know how they compare to the resources needed for environments.
My point here is that I don’t think customizations are as easy to add as we’d like to believe. If you mess up part of a new zone, you can cover it with a rock or something, after all. If you mess up character customization, there isn’t any covering that, it needs to be fixed and made perfect.
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You can’t do the main Alliance questing arcs without being exposed to High Elves, that’s how intertwined they are within the Alliance.
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I have a few months lol… the funny thing is I have already decided to take a break from the game before this joyous news came and despite it too.
I’m just glad I was able to see this campaign of getting Alliance High Elf customization to its end with all the wonderful contributors to its cause. 
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Due these topics I started to keep an eye on the NPCs as well because I am farming the Quel’dorei Steed from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Most of the NPCs are High Elves and even use this horse. It is totally normal for the Alliance-players to ask for these designs.
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Three years of this. We started duking this out when BFA launched.
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Same! You guys always made this place so much better and i want to thank you all for it! <3
Isn’t that crazy and i remember ALL of your characters and names 
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Oh man I need to bring Nyshant back to celebrate. 
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I’m back! And in three years I have lost 12 levels!
and I’M getting customization options too!
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I honestly did not expect for new hair colors to come this soon.
Props to Blizz but also bye Blizz I don’t feel like supporting them after the recent events.
I’m so happy for you guys though!
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I wouldn’t celebrate too early. It’s Blizzard we’re talking about. They will find a way to screw the Alliance over although I do not believe they have the leisure doing this anymore. Every wrong footstep is massive at the moment and adds to the pile of shame.
I really wish for you guys to be happy though. But please, don’t ask for Silvermoon City later on.
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Thank you so much! <3 That’s very sweet of you and i wish the same for you! I’ve NEVER wanted SM, i wan my own city! One where Void and High elves come together with other races coming to visit (Night elves, worgen, gnomes!) Maybe in Kalimdor?? <3 So many good spots c:
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instead they get mad when you call them karens for suggesting that they just let people enjoy things instead of trying to gatekeep extra customizations . Also they would rather attack people asking for more customizations then go post their ideas for more belf customizations in the belf thread themselves .
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PR problems.
People want Nightborne customizations and Lightforged customizations. But the biggest request is and has always been for High Elves in the Alliance…
They need to do something to get some casuals back after their current PR debacle so they restarted something casuals really want, character customizations.
But, if they ignore Void Elf hair colors, they risk having more people unsub because honestly it’s been three years and people are fed up.
So they caved and gave hair colors.
Getting hair styles and something to fix the naming problem or entropic embrace will be a long time coming yet… getting Paladins will be even longer.
But I imagine those requests will continue.
I’d say I’m curious as to what form they’ll take, but lets be real. The same group of Horde players are gonna keep saying that Alliance High Elves aren’t real High Elves and that they’re just Void Elves… and they’ll try to gate keep hairstyles… somehow… and the rest of it somehow.
Can’t blame you there… Blizzard did say no more customization for SLs. So… Why would anyone? 
I suspect most folk don’t honestly want Silvermoon to be Alliance.
Most people understand that its the Blood Elves home not the high elves anymore.
I immediately don’t trust the intention of those demanding Silvermoon be Alliance. Just seems like they’re trying to start things.
Paladins though… I suspect lots of people will push for those. I don’t agree with it and I also doubt Blizzard will go for it.
These things. Exactly the things I expected would be next.
Honestly not a fan myself. (Hairstyles is fine and I’m willing to budge on EE a little bit.) Paladins and the little name plate thing seem too far to me.
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Honestly I don’t think it needs to go this far.
I’ve managed to ignore the passive with no effort and void elf paladins sound just…ugh.
To each their own I guess.
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Way before they announced Shadowlands customizations someone asked me, “What if they do the proposed Void Elf customization for High Elves.”
and I said, “It’ll eat the Void Elves.”
They should have made High Elves a seperate Allied Race.
They didn’t. They decided to deliver Wildhammer Dwarves, Forest Trolls, etc. and so on through customizations instead.
Well…
that puts Void Elves in a tricky position. Now don’t get me wrong. They’re not going anywhere.
But now attempts to get High Elf stuff happen on that platform.
and don’t get me wrong, when I say, “Fix the naming problem.” I mean, an item or glyph that lets you change your name. There are already items in the game that make you appear as a different race than you are currently. So it would be something like that.
What I’d actually like more, is if they took options away from Void Elves, I.E. natural skin colors, hair colors, etc. and just added in High Elves separately.
With Paladins, because High Elves have them. They’re in the Paladin order hall and without Warlocks. Even though there is a High Elf “Summoner” out there.
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I guess read above. Keep in mind the point of the customization options was, as stated by Blizzards Art Director:
"According to a dev interview Ion gave several months ago, Blood Elves were originally unintended to have blue eyes in Shadowlands, but later on that decision was reversed following team discussions. If the art department was involved, what was the reasoning that led to blue eyes being added for Void Elves and Blood Elves?
This is another place where there was a race, High Elves, in the game which hadn’t really been represented on player characters. Blood Elves were the closest, but had felt green eyes. It was an opportunity where we had a number of elven races, and we could tie it back to their roots, letting players choose where they want to align and what fantasy to play out. We did have a lot of discussion about it, ultimately we might do more in the future, but for now we’re providing the option to have a few High Elf customizations available."
So this is just an issue of that platform. You staple High Elves onto Void Elves and you’re gonna have these collisions.
I honestly don’t think entropic embrace is a hard fix by the way. You just add a glyph.
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Hold up… I have a thing to help folk who want to remove it.
One can use this to make macros of their main spells to auto-cancel the effect.
Thank you Somand!
Still seems entirely unnecessary to me.
Why is a name plate so important when you are effectively what it is.
I doubt you’d see any Wildhammer fan asking for the same… not unless it came with a full subrace system.
Its just not an important part of our characters. Like I can understand hair color. IRL our hair is a major factor in how we present ourselves to the world.
Thats a pipe dream though.
I will admit that the idea of the Subrace system becomes more and more interesting to me as things move along.
I know many people don’t like it all that much but given where we are now, I see less and less reason not to shoot for it.