Those weren’t horde races until they were. And in the significant amount of time before they were, when no one knew if they were even going to become playable much less to whom they would go, everyone wanted them.
People on both sides wanted Vulpera since they met them. Same for the Nightborn. Some people didn’t care and some people wanted them a lot. The net result was that there was a demand from both sides.
Before we talk about that though… high elves were always just assumed to be an alliance faction. Before the shoehorns came out, even horde players just assumed the pretty elves would be Alliance.
But there was an “ugly race” problem in the horde and its population was getting lower and lower. To solve that, the devs put high elves on the red side and that fixed everything nicely as a surprised population readjusted with many alliance moving over to horde.
It never made sense, it just served to fix a problem that the devs could not seem to solve in any other way. It also gave them a taste for taking things away from the Alliance. That thirst carries forward to today.
Wide appeal for Vulpera, devs gave them to Horde. Alliance gets more gnomes.
Wide appeal for Nightborn. Devs gave them to Horde. Alliance gets more Draenei
Massive, unceasing outcry for high elves in a way that makes sense… they get something that bears no resemblance to what they asked for.
Horde gets what they want. Alliance gets kicked.
I don’t know if bias is the right word. I don’t really think that it is being done with malice. I just think the devs don’t realize what they are doing. They are blind to their own trend.
If something is widely popular, the devs just give it to the horde and produce a thrown-together bit of mockery to give to the Alliance.
It’s funny how she got upset with Tyrande but was fine with Sylvanas. Was she suffering from withdrawals after Sylvanas decided to start a faction conflict despite knowing we had a big problem in Silithus?
It’s completely normal to say “I’d like to play [insert race], but unfortunately they’re in the wrong faction”. I’ve heard it from both sides numerous times.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that they want them for their faction. Just maybe something a little bit like that in the next round of allied races. Apart from the High Elves I’m not aware of any serious campaigning.
I personally want a strawberry blonde High Elf paladin on Alliance side. I already have one on Horde side but the transmog I want is mostly Alliance.
anthromorphic does not mean human. it means human characteristics in non humans.
Anthropomorphism -when animals or non-human characters are given human characteristics. … Examples of Anthropomorphism : In the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast, the clock (Cogsworth), candlestick (Lumier), and the teapot (Mrs. Pots) all act and behave as if they are human beings.
That is FACT.
Since you’ve ignored this question twice, I’ll ask it again…if you don’t want anything “resembling” humans( by whatever definition you please) WHY ARE YOU PLAYING ALlIANCE? Human, Dwarves and Gnomes have been Alliance since the beginning of the game. It’s part of their identity.
They don’t want Horde High elves, they want Alliance High elves. Alliance have High elves. Silver Covenant have existed since Wrath and have always been allied with the Alliance.
its not about wanting Horde races.
Its about not wanting the Races we got.
The resentment would be way smaller if we got some High Requested races like: Vrykuls, Jinyu and Broken. Mechagnomes are a joke ( seriously, no idea how anyone at blizz approved that idea) and Except for Dark Irons none of those races existed previosly. Basically we got a whole bunch of races with no lore, few customization options and that we didnt even know existed.
This is mostly just a result of the ABSOLUTELY paper thin writing that took place to have the Nightborne go Horde. I actually don’t have a super huge problem with the Nightborne being Horde but it should have been written in a MUCH more impactful manner like maybe for whatever reason Thalyssra had to kill a B-list Night Elf or perhaps Tyrande found a Nightborne spying (not necessarily for the Horde) and that led to them being shunned by the Alliance…but what we got was such a thin veneer of a story it is almost laughable.
Thalyssra: Hey Tyrnade, how’s it hangin?
Tyrande: Where you been?
Thalyssra: Well i got stuck in a bubble for a bit, we had mad issues, thanks for the help.
Tyrande: The world changed, we have massive issues all around the world and over on this other planet and this blood thirsty group of people…you suck because you weren’t there.
Thalyssra: Peace! I’m out. Hello new Blood Thirsty group of folks i have no idea who any of you are and have never met any of you, oh you blew up a whole city of people and have been in perpetual war with our kin for 15 years…let’s hook up, and by the ways SHE (points at Tyrande) was mean to me. So ANNOYING! Hey who is this cutie Lor’themar was it?
I mean the writing for their placement in the Horde was just so ridiculous. But you have to admit, they DO fit the Horde more than they do the Alliance, they are all about power and themselves. Didn’t even really bat an eye when their kin were murdered en mass on Teldrassil, not even so much as a protest.
10,000 year old grudges are pretty hardcore, I gotta say. Dont think I would want to join a group that would hold an action done 10,000 years ago over my head either.
People don’t want to have to change faction, leave their friends, abandon their guild, and give up what is potentially around 14 years of sentimental attachment just to play a new race.
Factions are bad for the game. They only thing they’re good for is causing unnecessary strife and heartbreak to players.
So this is a misstatement of what actually happened. They didn’t do something 10k years ago and that was it…they HID FOR THAT ENTIRE 10k YEARS and it only stopped being a thing when the bubble dropped.
So from Tyrande’s point of view (and rightfully so) it wasn’t something that happened 10k years ago…it’s something that happened for 10k years, and that is a HUGE distinction.
what do you mean those high elves? they ARE the high elves! the high elves are the blood elves. they control the high elf kingdom and its population and even the sunwell which all high elves revere and still make pilgrimages to. the high elves arent the 4 canon ones in actual alliance territory, those are really just blood elves with a different opinion and extremely rare
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