Physically speaking, Blood Elves are High Elves. Changing your name doesn’t change what you are.
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They play rules loosely here.
Tha mag’har are like the few 100 or so, maybe, the horde who got out of AD Draenor from alternate Yrel’s spring cleaning frenzy.
Throw in the BFA “war”, war in “heaven”, war in dragon land, now TWW…they have to be down to maybe couple dozen.
Yet they are a race.
Other franchises have done similar. But they put in some reality checks. Like the First and only of Tanith in 40K.
Only 1 regiment of them left the world of tanith before its end. When the last man of tanith dies, that’s it.
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There isn’t really one answer to why this seems to happen so often in so many games.
But
It is probably a combination of lore, ego, and not being able to get managers to allow dev time on it.
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I think the housing hold up is well…people would just hide in their houses.
A great argument, back in 2009. Its 2024. I can hide in SW. Or I can hide in some steam game and have discord up on screen 2.
If needed and sounds like fun…I can save, exit, fire up wow.
the power of a widely accepted messaging medium. We don’t have to be in the game all the time lol. We can be reached in guild/friend discord setups.
Housing would at least get wow more log in metrics maybe. Otherwise for some people…we have other things to do and if needed ping us really.
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Which is an unfounded fear. You can play any MMO with player housing and find that a not insignificant portion of the player base do not just hide in their houses.
During WoD people didn’t leave their garrisons because they could just do everything from said garrison so there was no reason to leave.
In short, don’t put AH or Bank access or an endless supply of herbs, ore, and leather in player housing and people won’t just sit in them all day.
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I’d argue it’s a combination of ego and wanting originality.
If they just copy/paste player ideas they can’t claim it as their own. So they do the whole “can I copy your homework but change it a little?” Thing.
Tweak it just enough it’s theirs and not exactly what players asked for.
I also think there’s an element of ego in that they probably want it to be “their” idea.
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Dracthyr third spec we wanted a tank and so they gave us augmentation
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Blizzard is the successful game designer spending the money on development. Players are … players.
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Lol its funny how people went from asking for housing and high elves, other content and zones to what we ask for now. Now we just want Anduin to BE A MAN!!
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High Elves have been in the game and playable since Burning Crusade.
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wouldn’t it be great to be the waiter at a restaurant they go to?
- yes, i’ll have the salmon.
you think you do, but you don’t
- excuse me?
oh, nothing sir.
/brings food…comes back ten minutes later, replaces dinner with something else and hands the bill.
- hey why’d you take my dinner away? i don’t want this.
We’d rather you didn’t order the salmon
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High elves are with Horde. They’re called Blood Elves now.
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Well yeah. the dude has had close to 4-5 years.
Either he is fit to command. Or he needs to be sent away.
I’ve seen Colonels and even a general just vanish.
I had one when all his idiocy caught up to him, the dude was fired on a Saturday. They didn’t even wait till Monday. Relieved of command on his day off lol.
We never saw him again. He wasn’t missed either.
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honestly most games that add housing almost always never get used after the first couple years even runescape houses went from stupidly popular to something people just use to quickly heal and teleport with
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There are High Elves, such as the Silver Covenant, who rejected those who became Blood Elves and remain loyal to the Alliance. It’s more of a political distinction than a racial one, but it DOES exist.
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I think what frustrated high elf people was that Blizzard kept telling everyone there weren’t any left but they kept appearing everywhere anyway, looking literally distinct from Blood Elves, in their own towns, encampments, important factions (Silver Covenant) and strongholds, not to mention the supposed 10,000 of them living as refugees in Stormwind. They also made a point of repeatedly stating (as have many on these forums) that they’re the same race, but I dunno, what is a race in WoW anyway? The Sunwell changed the Blood Elves in a fairly significant way. Worgen really muddied the waters here further, with them more or less just being humans that howl at the moon. Werewolves are still human after all.
A refugee population that rejected what they viewed as a quick fix for their magical addiction favoring patience, meditation, and loyalty, struggling to rebuild and make a home for themselves was a more interesting story to tell than whatever Void Elves ended up being in my opinion. What’s even more puzzling is the Alliance High Elves could have been the population that became Void Elves but instead it ended up being Blood Elves that rubberbanded from one faction to the other and back within a single generation. What narrative purpose does that even serve?
Like if there were no High Elves left, cool, stop putting them in the game everywhere when you know Alliance players wanted to play them.
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Dragonriding is exactly what people were asking for, so they do get it right sometimes.
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give me one thread that was asking for specifcally dragonriding before dragonflight was announced.
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I’m not going to dig it up but he’s right. People were asking for GW2-style flight with more control pretty often. Although I supposed the trade-off has been that I can’t AFK in the sky without swapping. Bummer.
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There’s still time to add a 4th (every class should have 4 specs like druid really)
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