Some Examples
High Elves? Void Elves.
Playable Dragons? Dracthyr.
Player Housing? Garrisons.
I can understand not committing to a true player housing system, but High Elves and playable dragons (or more realistic, drakonid/dragonspawn)? Seems like purposeful skirting around the playerbase and I can’t understand why.
you have these available on both horde and alliance…just because their name isnt “high elf” doesnt mean thats not what they are…
But isn’t that what the OP said?
all true, it’s blizz’s trademark way of doing things
Because Blizzard is making a game for millions of players. Not for the few handful of people on social media who think they represent everyone just because they very loudly proclaim that they do.
So we are “given” what Blizzard think the real majority of players want. Which Void Elves and Dracthyrs certainly have proven. Garrisons less so, but judging by the popularity of the class order halls … the lesson Blizzard learned from their mistakes with the garrisons may have taught them more of the, again, real majority of players than what folks on social media talk about.
wait wait wait. don’t you have to patent a process and trademark a logo?
But in the end, just like the stuff blizz gives us, it amounts to the same thing doesn’t it?
Well put sir!!!
Yeah ive noticed this as well.
“You think you do but you dont” they really strive to embody that quote lol
monkeys paw maybe or possibly the devs are just sadists in disguise
The hilarious part of this is that the only people that probably wanted taller Dwarves were a handful of nutbags on Twitter lol.
They have given High Elves back in 2007, for the Horde faction.
Just because you’re not growth enough to accept that you can’t always get things your way, it is not Blizzard’s fault.
So let’s say that every single player that wanted, advocated for, and spoke loudly for, oh let’s say dragons. Okay so they got what they got and they all played that option that they were given. The results would look just like they do now right? I mean we can’t tell anything about what the majority of the players want if there was only one choice; play it or don’t.
I’m not saying Dracthyrs were a poor choice on Blizz’s part. I mean an actual DRAGON as a player character? Cool as it sounds it’s not workable in the game. So we got a sensible race that people that advocated for dragons would pick. Or even people that never really considered it before might pick. I’m totally with you that the number of people actually making noise about dragons was a minority. It’s not a thing.
I’m just saying be careful with making conclusions that the numbers don’t support.
Until you turn purple against your will, sure.
Again, void elves being playable was a means to skirt having to make High Elves in the first place.
To put salt in the wound, we never got Quel’dorei because their numbers were too small. Yet the Void Elf population is that of some after school occult club. And we shipped with so little customizations that the “emo elf” didn’t even have black hair.
I find it hard to believe the “real majority” wanted Void Elves, before they were even thought of, over High Elves throughout the years.
Blood Elves are easily one of the most, if not the most popular race in WoW, the “real majority” have wanted an alliance counterpart for a very long time. It just came in the form of a Void Elf for whatever reason.
drakonids
true dragons
They can’t even fly, what is this nonsense?
Also like a third of the high elves in vanilla were horde questgivers
I think you’re mistaken, those are Blood Elves.
They’re pretty identical though.
Blood elves were explicitly announced as high elves in the BC announcements, which makes sense as it’s literally what blood elves are in frozen throne.
Because they are the majority of that race but decided to call themselves Blood elves. I swear no one watched that intro video.
Likely they have an inner circle of devs that decide what is or isn’t flyable in terms of playable content.
Though I’m positive they have some in reserve if there is any sharp decline in the player base