I expect bfas plot holes to be answered to be filled by shadowlands release. Otherwise the story isn’t complete.
Shadowlands will answer more when its active.
I am gunna make so many Vulpera. I am gunna make a few just to spite the folks who get bent over a fictional race in a fantasy online roleplaying video game.
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Alliance needs something with the glamor and magic that vulperas have.
Junkgnomes only appeals to a small number of people, mostly those who like gnomes or the theme of junkgnomes.
Junkgnomes does not have a look that can value them as purple blood elves, to popularize their presence among horde and ally players.
For the same reason, zandalars are popular with those who enjoy their theme, lore and already like trolls.
And regardless of faction, foxes are popular in both legends and other medias.
Vulperas managed to arouse appreciation of both the horde and the alliance.
Aunt Blizz knew it would be hard to get junkgnomes to be swallowed by the ally and horde, and used a sugar spoon to try to force her failed idea down her throat, with more interesting racials.
But giving better racials to junkgnomes is useless!
Giving better races to kultirans, purple blood elves and junkomes will not make alliance better in arenas and battlegrounds or feel more inclined to do wpvp, which is no longer the general focus of alliance players but of the horde.
No one in the horde will leave the existing horde community and all its progression in their trolls, orcs, blood elves and goblins, to start from scratch on the alliance, which has no structure comparable to what is already in the horde today, to play in a faction you do not like and with a race that is so filler and not relevant to BfA.
Mechagon is just a map full of rare and worthless mounts for the BfA lore.
Junkgnomes is of no importance in ally’s fight against the horde, as vulperas do for the Horde, by helping them with resource transportation in Voldun.
They do not help against Azshara and his naga in nazjatar, nor do they have any relevance in the fight against N’zoth and healing of Azeroth.
Only in the minds of Blizzard devs, junkgnome, who are a gnome recoloe, are they comparable to vulperas, who are a visibly new and unique-looking breed, and to give something unglamorous to ally and something remarkable to the horde, it would not cause unwellness and ostracism in the alliance.
It’s not that junkgnomes are bad but they will alienate ally.
They were doomed to the failure of popularity and interest at a time when devs did the service of pairing them with vulpes.
It was like giving the Horde a Ferrari and ordering the Alliance to use a trabant.
They will never be popular with more than a minority of horde and alliance players, in the same proportion as vulperas are proving to be.
My God!
How many topics have we seen since the appearance of vulperas, talking about the players’ interest in them? Several and many!
How many topics have we seen since the appearance of junkgnomes, talking about players’ interest in them? 4? Do any of them have more than 1K of cometaries?
We’ll see junkgnomes in the game but will be less popular than vulpes because steampunk themes only appeal to those who like them.
Common dwarfs and gnomes already have a technological streak, but like junkgnomes will only have relevance when Blizzard leaves, like Vindicaar.
Well, I’m going to be in the horde, creating 3 vulperas, causing me to devote time to my worgen, just like alt. 
And I only go back to the alliance if something like sethrak, arakkoa or saberon ( which are always cited by other threads ) is offered.
No more devs offering things they find interesting without regard to the reality of horde and alliance players.
No more alienating the alliance with horses, recolorized griffons and races without aplomb, with lore written on a post-it.
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Is there a point to this other than a rant about a furry race?
It sounds like you’re sick of capitalism too, just saying.
This is what these types will continue to do.
The worst possible suggestion, because none of the people who came up with this suggestion can tell who is going to recruit this salad.
Tyrande makes no sense recruiting worgen.
Greymane makes no sense recruiting night elves.
Giving something that Gilneas is already using for the night elves will leave the worgen unrelated to them.
One of the two races would be left with nothing or worse, get another joke like kultirans or junkgnomes being paired with some other breed that is actually more popular and original.
Night elf worgen as a playable race makes as much sense as giving druids to junkgnomes or making night elves ciborgs with mechadom technology.
It is not by giving something already in use by Greymane and his people that we will regain the burned prestige of the night elves.
Worgen’s fantasy is to be a werewolf and not a were-elf.
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Personally, I welcome the Starfox race. Pretty sure lots of worgens will be rerolling horde for reasons not exactly related to gameplay, good.
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every allied race with the exception of the mechagnomes was visible in the game from day 1 of BfA.
I heard a rumour that they had cancelled “darkfallen” undead elves for horde and lightforged undead for alliance but Im pretty sure that was fake as Calia seems to be the new horde leader for the forsaken to replace Sylvanas which seems to be the whole reason why her character was introduced to the game back in Legion.
I dont think they were actually planning on making lightforged forsaken for alliance players I think the most obvious answer is the right one: there was no plans for that and Calia was introduced in Legion to replace Sylvanas as the Forsaken NPC leader.
CHA-CHING!
Two words: baby Yoda.
This is where you revealed that you are absolutely making crap up. The Vulpera are quite literally Goblins with fur tacked on because they use the base goblin rigging and skeleton. That is the essence of an Allied Race, they use assets from existing races or are a spinoff of an existing race.
Except for Kul’tirans, THEY are completely unique.
But they don’t look like goblins, more than a Mogu looks like a draenei, a Jinyu looks like a night elf, worgen looks like a saberon or sethrak.
And they failed miserably to be emblematic of the players.
And it didn’t do any good if kultirans had a unique model, if kultirans are being treated with apathy by the players.
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Where are you pulling that statement? I see plenty of people with Kul’tiran mains.
Some people don’t like them but I hardly think there is justification to say that they garner any sort of apathy from the player base.
I’ll take a Vulpera over a belf any day of the week. Ugh.
That’s not the right root. “Were” denotes, in historical English, an adult male, as in “Wereman”, as opposed to child (girl) or adult female (wifman). Yes, man just meant human.
You COULD call Arator a “were-Elf”, but not Kaldorei Worgen.
I play both Horde and Alliance equally, but my goodness Alliance has some garbage Allied races. Mechagnomes are horrendous looking. Not only do I loathe playing tiny characters, but their look is awful.
I’ll be rolling a Vulpera day one, darn right.
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Cute fox people vs super model fantasy elf.
They will both sell. Like fudge and peanut to a starving fatman on a deserted desert island.
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The are better than Kung-foo Panda’s at least I suppose.
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What does drunken paw style not suite your fancy?
The foxes are cuter and more interesting though.
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