and then blizzard do the completely unexpected, by making Suramar the new night elf capital instead of wasting more resources on yet another city no one uses.
They revamp Silvermoon, because that’s what everyone wants, and give it a Nightborne section.
Then they take a gamble on whether to do the simple yet cost effective thing of making the night elves share, or take the Nightborne to Silvermoon.
I Shall Now Foretell how this Goes
There is no need to respond to this post:
Night elf alliance fans smile, but Jesi and the BElf boy fanbase cry hard tears.
Jesi and BElf fanbois “But Suramar is ours, its ours, it was designed for the horde”
Night elf fans: “Well actually, it is a night elf city, and the city of origin of most of the alliance Night elves and their biggest heroes and leaders all come from there”
Me: "Everything amazing thing is designed for the horde even night elf stuff " /sarcasm
Jesi and the horde fans: “No, it’s a horde city, it’s pretty, it belongs to the horde”
Me: “shrugs, I’m pretty sure it belongs to whoever blizzard decides it belongs to”
Horde fans - then make massive petition and outcry for blizzard not to.
Alliance fans: Are like “wtf… crying over something they don’t/can’t even use.”
Me: "The horde is entitled to have all the elven cities, alliance elves are refugees, exiles and savages - /end sarcasm
Blizzard: "okay, we’ll leave Suramar to the horde
Jesi and horde BElf fan bois: “yay, is pwetty, pwetty Elf magical stuff is horde fans anyway, Night elves left magic long ago = they can’t have it”
Me: “oh they’re actually seriously believe this /shakes head”
Alliance fans: “wtf, Blizz, horde favoritsm again”
Horde BELf fanboys: “haha, yes, we won, rudeness and anger always gets our way, For da horde”.
Original Horde fans: “dammit, I thought we could stealth get rid off the anime elf fan boys” They turn round to Jesi and BElf fanbois - “no you’re not true horde”
Blizzard: Unveils new Silvermoon with Nightborne section too. Best city art to date in wow.
Jesi and Horde BElf fanbois: “Wow, it’s stunning, just wow” - they so happy, but mainly because alliance fans are green with envy - and that was the whole point of opposing magical elves
Alliance fans: "Blizzard wtf, again!!? "
Horde BElf fan boys are thinking: “They won’t dare disappoint most of the playerbase which is horde”
Blizzard: "We decided that Silvermoon will now be shared with alliance Void elves and High elves, - night elves move into the Nightborne section.
Jesi and horde BElf fanbois - “Noooooooo”
Fans: Many more arguments.
Blizzard: “okay, we decided Suramar will be the horde elf city, Silvermoon the alliance”
Jesi and horde fan boy base “Noooooo, it can’t happen, we are horde, we should have everything”
Blizzard: We decided that the elves will share the cities. Nightborne and Night elves in Suramar, Thalassian elves in Silvermoon - both countries are sanctuary safe zones, where elves agree not to fight each other.
Elf fanbase: “okay, fine, we accept this compromise”
Rest of the player base : Breathes a sigh of relief - “maybe now we’ll have less elf threads”
In the not too distant future over the next 5 years:
New elf assets/race are introduced: Forum flame wars erupt, 1000 elf topics per day, now 75% of the players pick elf toons.
Blizzard Internal Meeting: Maybe we made a mistake, let’s just stop developing elves.
10 years later: Wow playerbase are adults mainly in the 40-60 demography - 20 years since BFA. Forum flame wars rage on,
what are they arguing about now?
Alliance “new race Beeboo twiki sparkles” are better on the alliance not on the horde"
Horde fan base: “No, they’re clearly horde, because it’s a horde a race”