A real world parallel felt necessary when this clearly means so much to you.
I said you sound like a fearful bigot (fear being the root of racism and transphobia). And while fear of change is not always wrong, it’s usually overexaggerated.
You have a morbid desire to deny other peoples wants and wishes, catastrophizing everything out of a fear of change - despite being told otherwise.
Kaeros, nobody’s coming for your Blood Elves, nor will the playable Alliance High Elves take Silvermoon, or your characters identity away from you. The Void Elves will not disappear if they have more customization like the Draenei do.
Sin’dorei are unique, but so are the remnant Quel’dorei. There won’t be any rewriting done, because they’ve been there as a part of the world all along. Most of us are already playing as if they are an organic part of the game.
You keep bringing up that server, clearly you play on it.
You have antiquated views and believe nothing can change. Even when provided with evidence you refute it. Which doesn’t make you right. You can live in your own reality forever if that is what makes you happy but it will gain you nothing in the long run.
The fact that you add me to ignore alone proves that you know are in the wrong but your pride and arrogance stands in the way of admitting it.
Good luck and please don’t change, we need a court jester from time to time.
You are attempting to justify invoking real world parallels to support a horrendous point and failing miserably, though attempting to justify the unjustifiable leaves even cleverest folks stuck and, as I said earlier, someone clever wouldn’t have been stupid enough to say what you said in the first place. But please, continue to explain how I am mimicking racist transphobes, it is making everything much clearer.
On the actual topic, you have to know you aren’t getting them at this point, right? I mean as insulting as you are towards me for telling you the truth, I am one of what? Four or five people actually paying attention to what you and your fellows are actually saying. You should be thankful you get even that. This thread is a playpen. It’s containment. It’s meant to keep the nonsense in one place from spilling into other topics that may actually be worth developer attention.
You keep going down rabbit holes of fake lore you make up or absurdly weak parallels that don’t stand up to scrutiny and you keep repeating foolish points that are incredibly easy to refute but which you keep repeating anyway.
But here are the facts.
1.) If your 20 year vigil meant anything, you’d have had High Elves years ago.
2.) If keeping this topic alive meant anything, you’d have High Elves years ago.
3.) If they were ever going to add Alliance High Elves as a stand alone race, we’d know at this point, just as we knew Vulpera and Mechagnomes and Kul Tirans and Zandalari and all the other allied races were going to be playable.
4.) You place far too high a premium on ‘personal customisations’ at odds with the game’s lore and story as if that is the catch all answer to everything. Wise up, they aren’t going to tinker with Void Elves just to make a few fake RP’ers happy, and I say fake RP’ers because a real RP’er will seek out a role that matches the game’s story. They don’t demand Blizzard invents lore so they can pretend to be something else. But as you admitted above, you don’t care about the story, so I don’t see why anyone else should care for your crazy little need.
And finally
They aren’t going to give a duplicate of Blood Elves to the Alliance. All your weak parallels and ‘but Pandaren! and Dracthyr! and Earthen!’ are just that, weak parallels that make sense to only you.
You aren’t getting a stand alone Allied race and you surely aren’t getting a toggle on a racial.
So what does that leave to declare victory with? Hmm? A few hair styles? Sure, get a few hairstyles without tentacles, declare a win.
Do yourself a favor and avoid interaction with him. He already once affirmed his goal is to twist any request to get a little more “non-void” customization that goes the other way to make it as controversial as possible. Even if it means going in against lore, what’s in-game and so on.
There is no helping these people, even with the best of intentions.
Consider us being the peaceful protestors who aren’t happy with the direction the “world” (Blizzard) is going.
Yes I have quit, but I still got gametime going, if that irritates you it’s a bonus. I just don’t play anymore but that doesn’t mean I can’t participate in a conversation for as long as that is possible.
It doesn’t irritate me at all, it helps pass the time as I wrestle with the beta login server.
I have to wonder how you would respond to someone who argued against your desire to duplicate a core Horde race who had said they had quit the game but were still arguing the point while their sub lasted. What would you say to them?
Anyone and everyone is free to express their opinion. Even if they don’t partake anymore in the game. It doesn’t mean they are gone permanently and could always return. As I did for 5 months to see how the game was changed and I have tried to enjoy the content but it just doesn’t feel like WoW anymore.
Which doesn’t take away that I am not allowed to advocate for things I’d like to see changed.
If you tomorrow would say you’d quit the game for x-reason but still would like to see change to maybe return later, then if I agree with your point of view, I’ll support it. If not I’ll just not respond to it as I don’t see the need to actively antagonize other people. As it to my own experience only causes unneeded tension.
I hope you find my answer satisfactory.
And if I by chance mad grammatical errors please note English isn’t my first language, so please be gentle to me
Believe it or not I am a reasonable person, not an unreasonable one. I am aslo not mean nor am I cruel so I will not mock that, nor have I ever. I have always regarded those who nitpick on grammar or spelling as the lowest form of debater.
However I stand by what I have said. This request is unreasonable no matter which way it is framed. You cannot duplicate a core Horde race without harming the Horde faction. You cannot alter Void Elves without disrupting the fantasy behind them. Seeing this as a matter of purely player choice is the mistake here, because that is not what is at stake. What is at stake is narrative cohesion and respecting the fantasy as laid out.
Blizzard will prioritise people who are happy playing Void Elves as they are over those who wish to twist Void Elves into what they are not.
Yeah a crusade is to go out and seek something. That doesn’t apply here because after 20 years, look, still no High Elves.