how does a person become so consumed by spite.
nobody wants to take elves away from the horde. ppl just want alliance high elves that arent greasy.
its a video game, ppl.
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Yeah, that sounds sensible. Hell, I was kind of expecting it in Midnight with Thalassians maybe being neutral. Hell, we already have the groundwork with the nametags listing the race, then the faction.
Now, we’ve gotten to a point where you can’t tell if the player plays Alliance or Horde unless you look really closely. Void Elves and Blood Elves look alike from afar, and that’s before taking into account the Pandaren, Dracthyr, and Earthen
But they are still different. Void Elves were created specifically to be an Allied race, as High Elves were just turning Blood Elves neutral and they didn’t want to do that.
What I believe at this point is this.
That if they were ever going to add Alliance High Elves, the most obvious opportunity was with Midnight. They did not, they added Haronir.
That the chances of them adding Alliance High Elves were drastically reduced when they created Void Elves, giving Alliance players the thalassian elf model but not a High Elf. After all, Void Elves bleed purple meaning there have been substantial changes.
That the complaints about Alliance High Elves were probably answered to their satisfaction by giving Void Elves normal skin tones. Now, I felt and still feel this compromised the fantasy of the race…and I notice they have gone out of their way to NOT use normal skin tones with Void Elves (the only two Void Elf NPCs I have found with normal skin tones are the priest and his friend from TBC Silvermoon who were protesting against the Horde and mind-controlled, though they prove that Blood Elves and High Elves can turn into Void Elves and the inference is that these are individuals who have only recently become Void Elves, meaning a skin tone change will happen in the fullness of time. Perhaps we will see them again in Midnight).
Instead my guess is that Blizzard will reveal Classic+ at the next Blizzcon in a year’s time and they may introduce High Elves for the Alliance in THAT version of the game, but that won’t be the main version of the game.
There’s definitely more. I wasn’t looking for them specifically, but I’ve noticed one on Karesh:
Interesting. The vast majority still seem to retain the blue colour schemes, but this does mean one can be a Void Elf and retain normal skin tones though it still maybe a transitional stage. It IS a realtive rarity though.
It means that normal tones don’t make you High Elf then if they are a part of the canon Void Elf range.
P.S. He does have tentacles though…had a character in the area so just checked. You can’t see them on the linked image as they are hidden by his shirt collar. Guess they couldn’t resist giving him an obvious touch of the void.
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Thank you, Eluna, for not working in Blizzard’s writing department 
The solution is to ban people who create new HE threads. At this point its clearly spam and harassment.
There is no playable HE now and in midnight
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You’re harassing the High Elves and spamming your hate, you’re a bad girl 
You re not a High elf and playable high elves dont exist.
It cant be harassment to no one
You re a void elf, aka “blueberry” or “smurfette”.
Its clearly noticed on your character " Void elf Priest"
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No! Quiet! You’re a worthless girl. I’ll find you in Azeroth and spank you
There are canonical examples of Void Elf NPCs with normal tones.
it means a normal toned Void Elf is definitely a Void Elf, though of course the tone is only skin deep as you still bleed purple.
Technically speaking Both Void Elves and Blood Elves are High Elves, so it is already playable, just doesn’t use the name “High Elf.”
ppl dont want to technically have spaghetti on their plate. ppl want spaghetti.
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I mean, spaghetti is good, but I rather pizza 
But in all serious, yes, people wanted High Elves for a very long time. I know this all to well. But just because something is a different flavour, doesn’t stop it from being what it is. Void Elves are still technically High Elves, and there is nothing in the lore stating otherwise.
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I find that to be controversial. Their skin tone, eye colour, voice, biology (remember - bleeding blue) changed. They lost their original racial traits and got new ones. At some point You have to admit They changed enough to call them a different race.
Just as we don’t call High Elves Night Elves when they became smaller and changed skin tones.
Just as we don’t call Night Elves Trolls when they lost their tusks.
Their High Elven heritage is somewhere there, but I believe we should realize there’s some racial differences there.
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If refering to Umbric and his followers originally, then yes. But if referring to the rest who joined the Void Elves in studying of the Void, no, they haven’t changed at all.
The Infinite “iT’s a GAmE” argument is stale, you have to understand people pay money to play this game on top of it there is so many threads about this dumb topic and this discussion has been going on for DECADES at this point.
I’m not for being spiteful or anything but the fact is that blizzard tends to listen to the loud minority, so creating some counter noise might/could help prevent another dumb decision blizzard would make.
At this point we know Void Elves are capable of transforming others into Void Elves. There is an NPC in K’aresh who not only has a normal skin tone, but possesses tentacles.
Two former Blood Elves who were not present during the initial disaster are now present in Telrogus as well, beginning their journey with the void.
The key tell is the fact that Void Elves bleed purple, pointing to deeper physical changes even if on the surface they can appear very close to an unchanged Elf.
its stale to u because its not a spicy take.
what do u reckon is the solution to “loud minority asking for this playable race for 20 years”?
adding void elves as half measure clearly wasnt it.
from my point of view, its either a post from blizz that says “its never going to happen” and delete all high elf npcs from the game, or add high elves.
the devs of this game have made plenty of unpopular decisions, adding a playable copy pasta race is objectively not even going to reach the top 50.
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I mean true, but keep in mind, the lore surrounding the Warcraft universe doesn’t always make sense, and this does include towards the term of what is classed as a different race as another