So were High Elf hair colors and skin colors.
The way Shadowlands customizations were implemented it makes sense.
Cause people on the forums will say you’re not a High Elf, you’re a void elf… and they’ll be wrong because the art director. But it’s just the way it is.
Unique problem actually. If you hover over a Wildhammer dwarf it says, “Dwarf.”
If you hovered over a Ren’dorei and it said, “Elf” we wouldn’t be here.
I disagree. Even when I was entirely against them (I want to stress that was only a month or so and I realized I was just angry at a few specific people and that wasn’t fair.) It seemed more like it was inevitable. I just didn’t expect it to come anytime near to SLs… I wasn’t even convinced it would happen in 10.0. But given the subraces being added at all I thought it would be a matter of time.
With AR’s and SLs customization I think it makes less sense. It would mean they wasted a huge amount of time and effort. I can see them stubbornly keeping to what they have now simply because of the immense effort making a true system for that for all races would entail.
That said it wouldn’t be bad in any regard at this point.
Ok.
What does it matter what people on the forums say?
That never stopped the countless folk using Blood Elves and Humans with TRP to roleplay up to this point.
Says Troll for Darkspear.
Not sand troll. Or jungle troll for instance.
Wildhammer folk know and expect a difference. Its why many of us are so unhappy that Wildhammer didn’t end up an AR.
Its amusing that I’d actually support a full High Elf AR if it meant I’d get my damned proper Wildhammer.
(Don’t much see the point at this time though of course.)
sigh
Personal attacks are so wrong and against the tos.
People told us it was a pipe dream the whole time. Yeah, the skin colors made it obvious that we’d eventually get the hair colors. Honestly, it seemed trollish on Blizzards part that we didn’t get the hair colors in the first place. But it’s still always been a “Pipe dream.”
That happened when they were like, “Instead of doing more Allied Races we’re gonna make like 30 races playable by adding color palettes.”
It was kind of obvious then though that Allied Races was a feature that was immensely popular they decided they didn’t want to spend the resources to support.
What people on the forums say doesn’t matter. But lets face it, you try and gate keep High Elves and make High Elf players feel bad and they’re going to push for that… and it’ll become important to them.
That’s exactly my point.
Elf is the only one that is specific. Outside of High Mountain Tauren or Mag’har Orc, or Lightforged Draenei.
But all of the base races are just, “Orc, Undead, Troll, Tauren, Dwarf.”
so adding customization options that way didn’t matter. Except… Elves. Since they’re very specific about those.
I think they’d do well to do both. It may sound silly and I’m sure blizzard is like, “Voice actors cost money.”
But voice lines go a long way to making you feel unique in the game.
Three years of a victimization mentality. How’s that been going for ya?
Eh, I’m not always a nice person, and frankly for many of them:
I do agree with that… If they were going so far with the skin tones why not the extra step?
The only thing I could think was that they did favor some amount of distinction between factions but now they’ve gone against that directly so soon, I’m thinking it was just something they decided wasn’t important.
Most foolish move they’ve ever made. Customization is a poor replacement for a full AR. Between the racials, heritage armor, tabard and the heritage mount?
Those things really help to get people into their characters. Thats how you build someone who might otherwise just see a toolset into someone willing to fight on the forums for five hours a day for a race. lol
Different points of view I guess.
Even that though seems immensely unimportant to me. Its such a small minor thing in the game. Barely noticeable.
That more than anything I’d think isn’t worth the time… mine or the devs.
This too. I agree.
Rohkthok thinks that’s an awful and coward act. Hordes don’t do that. We Orcs don’t need victimization. We will kill if we need to and we will fight if we need to.
Ion and Lore were pretty trollish about the whole thing. “The Horde is waiting for you.” and then before that there was that event where they were playing BFA to show it off and talking off handedly about how there isn’t a High Elf starting zone. So they were onto it.
Though maybe it was a J Allen Brack thing. Hard to say.
What we know is that whatever obstacle was in the way is gone now.
Yeah I agree. Just costs money to do voice acting, then development time for the writing, the area, the intro quest, the heritage armor. Etc. Etc.
Ion says that continued customization would cost them a raid tier. So It sounds like perhaps they’re short handed? Hard to say. That being said, people would have been happier with more Allied Races than they’d be with Torghast. But I get it. They’re trying to find repeatable content for casuals. They tried with Warfronts and then they tried with Torghast. But at the end of the day casuals just want to go collect transmogs and play alts.
Yeah, but to be fair you’re a Void Elf player. Not someone that’s wanted to play a High Elf for sixteen years…
Yeah but she’s a gobbo. I agree though Rohkthok. Orcs aren’t victims! They MAKE victims!
It’s one thing to get upset and complain sometimes it’s totally another thing to make direct personal attacks on people.
She’s out of line.
Wait…aren’t you referring to yourself?
I missed where you ever stopped crying about being an imagined victim, Cal.
I haven’t done that. Cali likes to tell a lot of tall tales.
Hypocrisy is delicious. 
You’re never gonna get to be an orc like that Star! Rohkthok’s never gonna marry you!
Like actually I could write a list of names but I won’t because we all already know who those people are. Lol.
Really inappropriate.
But that’s not much of a surprise.
Well, see he’s never tried to deny himself something, and that seems to be the biggest sin in his eyes.
What? Your marriage prospects with Rohkthok?
Rohkthok is not she. Rohkthok is man orc. Strong man orc. she orc is busy killing T-Rex.
Rohkthok has never thought about marrying to thick lipped small goblin. Rohkthok’s wife is still alive. unlike that Mankirk.