You cannot have it both ways. You cannot derive hope from them ‘not saying no’ on the one hand whilst citing all the times they did so no and backtracked on the other. You have to accept that them not saying no is meaningless, and you are providing the reasons as to why that is.
Yes I can, because as I’ve mentioned before, a business is beholden to its fans. (Ok, maybe they’re more beholden to their shareholders than they are their customers, but neither here nor there), and that if a request has enough people and enough power, it’ll happen, because while the direction of World of Warcraft is up to its devs, they shouldn’t forget who it was that made their popularity and lasting power possible in the first place.
Okay, we can agree that WoD was a strange expansion (even though it had some amazing raid encounters and a great levelling experience). But that doesn’t take into account the Caverns of Time, which explores past events and even alternate timelines if I recall correctly?
The split between Blood Elves and High Elves was not over fel magic, this is a misconception. Fel magic was utilised in crystals to sustain the magics propping up Silvermoon, and Blood Elves received a mild dose that turned their eyes green
Source? Frozen Throne had Kael’thas join up with Illidan and the Burning Legion because Lady Vashj rendered assistance and it was preferable to execution at the hands of Garithos. Also, Kael’thas sent agents back to teach the Blood Elves how to use fel magic. I think that qualifies as more than just “a mild dose”.
Christie Golden’s “Exploring Azeroth” reads:
In the end, with their addiction to first arcane magic and then fel energy, and the horrors brought to their doorstep and beyond by Arthas Menethil and the Scourge, the blood elves demonstrated great courage, determination, and strength.”
Given how malleable and open to retconning the lore is, take that as you will. Maybe Midnight will expand on this or deny it.
But let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that you’re right and the difference between Mag’har Orcs and green Orcs is greater than that between Blood Elves and High Elves (even though, they have the same body, genetic makeup, and physiology). We have two flavours of humans, one from stormwind and one from Kul Tiras. Ok, the Kul Tiran model is a lot… bulkier than the Stormwindian human, but are you seriously going to argue that a fat person has a completely different biological makeup than a skinnier counterpart?
Zandalari Trolls. One of the coolest additions to the Horde. They were originally indistinguishable from the Darkspear trolls when they were introduced. And as far as I can tell, aside from cultural differences, they’re no different from the Darkspear in terms of biology.
Highmountain Tauren. Okay, they have moose antlers, touche. But if moose antlers are enough for a separate, similar AR, maybe some tattoos would suffice for another.
They played a minor role in BFA because Veressa was involved due to her connection with Sylvanas
Well, Windrunner spire is an instance and Sylvanas will be involved somehow, so I expect to see Vereesa get involved. In a story about elven reunion, the Silver Covenant will absolutely be there.
My examples simply serve to point out that there are far more high elves then that “90% of 90%” argument suggests. And this is before we take into account the “unknown unknowns”. Maybe there’s a group of high elves we haven’t come across yet.
The Night Elves are a core Alliance race. And the Forsaken capital is the Ruins of Lordaeron
as far as I understand, the only the area above the Undercity is accessible. But there’s barely any Forsaken who are still there. The majority of them are refugees in Orgrimmar.
The High Elf capital is Silvermoon, in the same way the capital of any bunch of traitors is their national capital, because High Elves are Blood Elves with a different opinion.
The capital city of China is in Beijing, and yet there’s a state that calls itself the Republic of China off the Taiwan strait, which has Taipei as its capital. I won’t make any political arguments, simply drawing a real life example for comparison.
But we don’t even have to look at China to counter this argument. The capital of Vichy France was Paris, but its legitimate government-in-exile was in London. If you talk to any alliance aligned elves, they do consider Silvermoon “occupied” by the enemy and somewhat behave like a government-in-exile themselves.
It’s easier for those of us to keep SAYING Ion’s ‘Blood Elves are High Elves’ line because it is true
No, it isn’t. I’ve many arguments as to why it isn’t. If Blood Elves are High Elves, why the need to call themselves something different? And what does that make of remaining Windrunner sisters and their followers who serve the Alliance with distinction?
They GAVE you Void Elves loaded with high elf like customisations. You are mistaking your request for one that is reasonable and thus actionable when it isn’t, you are being unreasonable because you are insisting on perfection and given what Void Elves can represent it is clear that what you want is to enforce an objective reality…that the rest of the game and playerbase acknowledge you as a High Elf.
Okay. Let’s say you’re at a restaurant that you’ve loved since childhood, and there was this dish you enjoyed eating for as long as you can remember. Let’s say they take it off the menu for some reason, and you petition the chef to bring it back. He tells you that you can have it with pineapple, but it completely alters the flavour and it isn’t quite the dish you wanted. “If you want to eat this dish, you have to have it with pineapple” the chef says.
So, you continue to petition until, by some miracle, the chef listens and brings you that discontinued dish from childhood, thankfully sans pineapple. It’s great, but it is lacking in seasoning and there’s a certain topping that you remember. The chef is this close to bringing your favourite dish back, but it’s set back just a little bit.
Do you simply shrug and enjoy it what is there, and wish to no longer bother the chef while you only enjoy the lesser version of what you remember? Or do you bring him over one last time and give him the feedback he needs to really bring the magic back? Remember, the customer is always right in matters of taste. It is not for the customer to adapt to the needs of the business. It is for the business to adapt to the needs of the customer. That is how the free market works.
Blizzard is under no obligation to diminish the factions by giving the Alliance a copy of a core Horde race.
And I’m under no obligation to keep giving them my subscription
