Or maybe, just maybe, we look at it from a design perspective rather than play semantics?
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No.
Still elf.
go home and leave horde to REAL HORDE!
#WantRealHordeBack
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I am psychic sometimes.
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How about you learn to be nicer?
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Wow, I’ve always wondered what a THICC elf would look like.
They look more like Kul Tiran Half Elves tbh lol.
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No, but they will be giving quests, be in my party, and have their story forced down my throat. Just as you were forced to burn the tree. At the start of this I just didn’t want them to be playable, now I want the traitors gone.
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I didn’t burn the tree.
the male looks like a halfling. 
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What is a halfling half anyway? Half size? Shouldn’t they be more like quarterlings?
are you the artist?
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I basically have to escape to cognitive dissonance to rationalize Blood elves (High elves) joining a faction of Orcs and trolls and it not being absurdly immersion breaking.
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Basically, it doesnt fit your expectations and thus breaks the immersion in your head.
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Not every fantasy world needs to be identical. Sometimes its okay for pretty people to join forces with the hunchbacks.
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i would be ok with the alliance getting thicc elves
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We got straight backs this xpac you bigot.
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how dare you assume my posture!
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no arguments have ever been refuted by pros. they cant have a different model because they are the same people and blizzard already gave you a model different enough from a blood elf(high elf) to justify making an AR around it. the picture in the OP is fanfcition, it doesnt exist and has no bearing on the game. your population argument being compared to gnomes was refuted flat out by the caydiem post with gnomes also being the comparison. that the vast majority of high elves still around identify as blood elf
There are still some High Elves in the land, but the majority of those once known as the Quel’dorei no longer fit the bill of “High Elf”…In short, High Elves are not playable because there are very few true “High Elves” left – far less so than Gnomes. While there are Blood Elves in much larger supply, they are busy with other pursuits alongside Illidan. You’d certainly not see them fighting side by side with the Alliance anytime soon, not after such betrayal.
as for ion said so, well he is just the game director and speaks on behalf of the development team. and the last word was high elves are playable as blood elves, and void elves are another flavor of high elf and there are no plans to add a horde race to the alliance without modification. and the no has out lasted your 2 year mark since 2005 
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odd body types wasnt the issue. rather, orcs were from another planet who under the influence of the burning legion, came to azeroth thru the dark portal to attack azerothians of all types. they were planning on taking over the planet in the name of the burning legion and wouldve been just as hostile to trolls as to any other race of azeroth. that didnt make them very popular.
then there’s the long war between the elves, humans and dwarves, against the various races of trolls, who seemed to think the planet belonged to trolls exclusively because they were the original indigenous people. note i said original, because they also didnt like the evolutions of their own race that followed - et.al, elves. if you werent a troll race of some kind, you were instantly a target. i’m sure that didnt make them very popular either.
why the devs made them all hunched, is a head scratcher. none of them had a reason to bent over like that.
a bit of real world lore -
in the epic of gilgamesh, a story written in ancient akkad/early babylon, gilgamesh decides to travel thru a magic portal to some eternal plane, to request information about eternal life. the magic portal has a protective forcefield around it and is guarded by 2 scorpion men. its the dark portal! anybody know who the two guys are on either side of the wow dark portal?