Friendly reminder that we can like and dislike things in the game without being ‘evil terrible people’. I don’t like Kul’tirans and would never play one, but I don’t think that they should be removed or not added. It’s simply not to my taste, and that’s perfectly OK. They fit in a certain niche that doesn’t tailor to me. Which, again, is fine.
Mechagnomes are the same. I wouldn’t ever play one myself, I have no interest. I also wouldn’t play things like Mah’gar, Zandalari, humans, DID, etc. etc. not because I think “no one should”, but because I don’t have any interest. Same with High Elves, I’d never roll one myself, they don’t appeal to me in any way, but there’s tons that I know would enjoy them.
The situation comes up with Vulpera too. Some highly dislike them and whatever, whereas I find them adorable and would play them in a heartbeat. Just because one thing doesn’t appeal to someone doesn’t mean that someone is a terrible person at all. And just because something might not appeal to a large audience doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be added either, and all.
We all want different things in this game. My stance is that if it doesn’t destroy the entire identity of a race and rip to shreds the lore/theme we come to love in some fashion, which is my issue with Lightforged undead(I see them as a terrible mary-sue concept that I really would not ever support for lore reasons and lore reasons alone), then it’d be fine to add. Mechagnomes, Gilgoblins, Vulpera, Ankoans, Sethrak, Saurok, anything else under the sun, sure, if it makes sense then I’m fine with it.
Blizzard never said there was a set amount of slots, and they also said they’re taking feedback. Let’s say a race is added that doesn’t appeal to ‘xyz’, that’s OK, and doesn’t close the doors for what you want either. I don’t think it’s a competition and I think we can all vouch for what we want in the end. If Blizzard thinks it makes sense, then they’d go for it.
They’re going to add in concepts they really like as well and not just base things off of players. Mechagnomes and Vulpera might be exploring things they’re really enjoying talking about and fleshing out more lore for. Players will speak up and say, “That’s cool, so what about this race?” and Blizzard can look at ‘this race’, people’s ideas, and determine whether or not they want to use them.
The worst thing we can do right now is turn this into a competition or put down others for wanting a race, or not wanting it as well. But insulting each other over our wants/desires isn’t really the best approach. We all want different things from the game, and that’s perfectly OK. We’re going to express our opinions about it, and as long as we do so reasonably, that’s fine. Blizzard never said there were limited slots or that they’d shut their ears to feedback on future races. The best we can do is talk about what we really would enjoy seeing, and explore logically in lore as to why something wouldn’t make sense as an AR if we do not agree with it.
Otherwise, if it’s just a matter of how something looks, then chances are Blizzard won’t really accept that and lean more toward ‘Looks don’t matter, we’re focused on the story’.
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