Vrykul, Ogre, Naga, Furbolg, Quilboar, Gnolls, just a few playable races of the top of my head that would make sense to have them added. I mean Ogres are a Warcraft 2 race and Chris Metzen was opting to make them playable instead of Goblins in Cataclysm but he ended up choosing for the latter
And then comes along these new devs who have no utter respect to the game and are looking to implement their fanfictions or fetishes in some cases. Just one look at vulpera and you can see why they’re added in the first place. All these subraces, yes, subraces were introduced as literal WHO’s, they were not part of the lore and were just brought up out of nowhere.
First, highmountain, lightforged, mag’har and dark iron could’ve easily been introduced as a customization for their former races. But Blizzard thought “hey if we give them a mundane achievement and a transmog 99% of them won’t even end up using we might increase MAU’s”.
I showed Vulpera to an old Warcraft 3 designer and he legit thought they were an april fools joke and thought they weren’t real.
Then you have fat humans, half robot diaper gnomes and zandalari who have been retconned into being dinotopia/jurassic park and wakanda.
These are the worst decisions ever and it shows, that you just drop them in Orgrimmar at level 10 with a small cutscene because even you realised their backstory isn’t much to justify making an introduction zone to them.
Oh and Nightborne? Yeah, their city was sunken, their civilisation lost. Somehow people are okay with Nightborne retconning Maiev’s storyline in Warcraft 3. Technically the only Nightborne you’d find would be dead and laying on the ocean floor. Also Highmountain shouldn’t exist either because the Broken Isles were just a bunch of islands that were haunted full with ghosts and demons.
There’s an artifact in vanilla where the Dwarves dup up an ancient relic from the SUNKEN RUINS OF SURAMAR.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Highborne_Astrolabe
But yeah, we got another variation of a hecking elf so it is okay, right? Not to mention the lore abomination called void elves and the justification that high elves were never playable because of their small population lore wise but then you go ahead, suck some lore out of your thumb and make a small variation of that already small population playable, like where’s the logic on that one?
So yeah, why aren’t any of the cool races added? Why must I endure all these bad decisions? This is why I love the original races, they all had their own thing. I can’t say much about the subraces, they’re all bland, unoriginal and seem to be based on pop culture reference or straight out ripped out of a marvel movie. Although I do like Kul Tirans, their ingame model and customization is stupid.
