Genn never showed up in Kul Tiras aside from the Harbormaster’s office. He literally does nothing else. Kul Tirans aren’t beastmen, and you wouldnt mistake them for Gilneans.
They are the human AR. They were going to be paired with Mag’har, but got pushed back along with Zandalari.
Because they aren’t part of the story Blizz wants players to participate in. And Ogres are either too large to be a playable race, or would be laughable scaled to match the rest.
I’m not a “Blizz iz gud” guy, but playable ogres just aren’t a good idea. Sorry. That doesn’t mean it won’t happen, though.
Genn shows up repeatedly throughout Kul Tiras, especially in regards to his interactions with Katherine Proudmoore. He was instrumental in pushing the Matron Proudmoore into seeking out Jaina (and ultimately forgiving her daughter). He has a minor, but potent role … that IS reflective of Rokhan’s role on Zandalar.
Also, what BEAST MEN are you thinking of to be the WORGEN AR? Because as far as I can tell, there isn’t a SINGLE race in this game that could fit that bill (with the exception of MAYBE the NE Worgen, which have had ZERO presence in the Gilnean Worgen Racial Storyline; outside of sharing the same curse). Saberon? Sethrak? Neither of these seem to work in culture or relations.
Tauren and werewolves are traditionally seen as menacing monsters. Pandas ill give you, but they were cursed upon all of us. Theres nothing menacing about Vulpera, they’re just cute. Thats the difference.
those are two of the best allied races to me. plus DID/velf/lfd. i race changed my warlock from DID to worgen though cuz of dat heritage armor. though the alliance on the forums seem to hate that as well.
also i have a ton of alliance toons and have been alliance since i started playing. i post on this toon because of rp reasons.
Many of the female characters in this game looked much worse than they do now. Female dwarves were really bad in the alpha. If they can pull off a pleasing female cow, I think they can do the same with ogres.
But I think Blizzard tries to attract females more than some other games. Vulpera are definitely more appealing to them.
I genuinely think Vulpera were chosen over Kelfin as the Goblin AR for two reasons: 1) The assets had already been largely devoted to the Fursona Goblins, so they were pretty much close to ready to go; and 2) Goblins are the least played core race on either faction (if you include all Pandas as a single group). It is not shocking to me that Blizz would decide to invest assets into a “Goblin” AR that was likely to have widespread popularity, over one that would have fringe popularity for a relatively fringe core race (Goblins are my favorite race, but I gotta be honest here).
Regardless, we were going to get a Goblin AR to correspond with the Alliance getting a Gnome AR. Blizz is just going down the list giving each CORE race a AR of their own (even if Vulpera are stretching things a bit). How people don’t get that by now I haven’t a clue? The next (and probably LAST) round of them is going to be the Forsaken and either SW Human (or Worgen) ARs.