Yeah, I think so too, doesn’t mean the story can’t continue in other games, but we shall see… or even a tv series, i’d love to work on that, but I can imagine that a lot of the discontinuity and weird developments we got in the game would be changed.
For starters, the night elves as described in WC3 and WotA trilogy concerning both their long vigil era and pre-sundering eras - there is no way those night elves would be so weak as wow has shown them or join the alliance so wholly or easily - they’d either re-write that bit or give some very compelling reasons for both the weakening and the joining of the alliance.
But if you look at the span of the entire story - in one sitting, a lot of things won’t make sense and would have to change. For instance, why would you cripple such an amazing race like that? Ofc for wow the mmorpg, the reason is they wanted to make the horde more prominent, so night elves went background. Also night elves were weakened just because they were joining the factions and becoming playable and at the time blizzard felt that all the races had to be roughly the same in the lore as if it was like gameplay.
That ofc is definitely meaningless in a film or tv series, heroes are great, regardless of what levels of powered their races are. They do extraordinary things period, it doesn’t matter if night elves or gnomes are the weakest or the most incredible by some distance, a gnoll hero and a tauren hero would be extraordinary, no matter where their races stand.
I don’t think blizzard kinda realized that when they were deciding these things. The player character in the game is like the hero in the film/tv - they are the ones that need to be equal - not their races, and nor their classes in the lore. It really makes no sense that warriors are as capable as mages nor mages as numerous as warriors, but the hero and player warrior is not the ordinary, and as great as mages are in general, the player mage is no ordinary mage either.
Racially you can think of the two classes like the two races human and night elf. Your average night elf like your average mage, is far more rare and powerful compared to your average human and average warrior. But the hero human warrior, that’s a different story, he can be as extraordinary as the night elf mage with his legendary knowledge and power. - and in fact, this automatically tends to make the human warrior more endearing, cos he has travelled a lot further than the night elf mage to become extraordinary, and knowing his race is not as incredible, is all the more credit and amazement for him than it is the night elf.
But ofc, when you force nerf everything to be the same, this parity is lost. Shame they felt they had to nerf both the race overall too in the lore and then make them near equal, actually make the human more powerful.
Yes I saw that, and I wanted to make a topic about it, but I was so angry.
I am glad nightborne and night elves are going to play a role though.
I was not pleased they took nightborne over to the horde, although they have EVERY right to, it represented the return of the best parts of their pre-sundering civilization with a group that had been tempered with trial and learnt humility and wisdom - and the physical assets of that era too - like finally the best parts of the night elves were coming together.
I know my anger seems old, but it still annoys, even now. ANd while they could repeat the same thing with the Farondis - it still feels like night elf fans were spat on when they did this and they did not consider this in all their “arguments” about whether they should go horde or alliance.
But perhaps, they have something new and better for night elf/nightborne interaction. However I feel it is unlikely we will see another great portrayal of night elven pre-sundering splendour for them to give to the night elves - this was the time for it.
