How can you be so bitter? Do you have to work on having such a negative mindset all the time?
Alliance get the option to play as pale, blue eyed elves originating from Silvermoon and still complain they aren't "High Elves".Work on the sheer basics of RP and you have the High Elves you asked for:"Hey guys, my character is a High Elf adventurer fighting the good fight for the Alliance!" BOOM, that Void Elf is now a High Elf. Hell, some Void Elves ARE High Elves that trained to harness the Void. Just look in the Velf starting zone and look at the assortment of blue eyed elf NPCs that are named "High Elf". We don't need ANOTHER pale, blue eyed elf sharing the Belf model and skins just so your character is named a "High Elf" when you mouse over it. Imagine if Blizz gave you fully mechanized Mechagnomes on top of the Diaper Gnomes you already have instead of making it a customization option for existing Diaper Gnomes.
I cant even describe how pissed of i am with this change.Well done blizzard, you finally made me quit retail.Literally the worst thing blizzard have ever done, and they have done A LOT of bad decisions lately.
There were three big problems with Void Elves, IMO, when they were released:1) Recruitment scenario was way too narrow. It makes it sound like this "race" is just a group of Blood Elves that was disfigured in a ritual gone awry. Clearly there has to be more to this than that, otherwise the idea of them being a distinct, playable strain of elves is absurd. This change to the aesthetic, particularly if we get the purple eyes that we saw in the blog preview images, suggests that Void Elves are continuing to come into being beyond the initial disaster ritual, probably through a more controlled means/exposure to the rift. That's good. I think we'd all still like it to be directly written or shown somewhere, though.2) Aesthetically sort of a mess. Obviously the model is solid, as it's quite literally the most popular model in the game, but the colorization was way too over the top. I *think* they felt like they had to do too much because of how much work was put into the Nightborne model comparatively speaking, so if they had simply given us what they're giving us now (Belf skin tones, different hair, different eye colors) maybe they thought that'd come across as lazy. Truthfully I think it's what we all would've preferred though, and this change gets us there.3) The name. Void Elf is a bad name. Blood Elves weren't called Fel Elves, High Elves weren't called Arcane Elves. They should've had a snappier name, that would endure through possible narrative developments. Maybe it's too late to go back on this one, but I can dream.I honestly think the best thing they did about the Void Elves was making them *not* High Elves. The Void Elves add something to the Alliance; it's a darker presence, at times an uncomfortable one, with their relatively amoral approach to victory, efficiency, and magic. High Elves are awesome. The Silver Covenant is among my favorite groups in the Alliance. But putting them more front and center wouldn't have added all that much in the political narrative of the Alliance in the way that the Void Elves have the potential to do. They largely would've been strong allies to the humans, not too dissimilar to how the Blood Elves have basically become the human insert presence within the Horde.So I guess I sort of don't understand the Alliance indignation toward this announcement; making the Void Elves better will, IMO, prove to be far more interesting in the long run than simply adding High Elves, and I really don't say that lightly. I more understand the Horde players that feel slighted by this more than anything, as the Void Elves getting these skin tones essentially finishes the handing off of the most popular Horde race to the Alliance as well. I honestly have a hard time feeling that great of sympathy though. More preserved undead, Nightborne, Zandalari, Mag'har, straight backed orcs... Horde have made out pretty darn well lately checking off their list of desires. Plus, there's a little bit of poetry in that Blood Elves were given to the Horde to help faction balance, and now in a way they're being given to the Alliance for, perhaps in part, the same reason.
let the velves keep their hairstyles n stache just as the Belves should keep their hairstyle and such, let the race be unique to each other in ways.
Game Development in action; Plan is A until B is a better option.
Please, tell me in wich ways was the alliance pandered to in BFA? Making the alliance pasive before the horde? Losing Darnassus and lots of night elves lives? Making Tyrande a demi godess and somehow... still barely win a fight with a "simple" ranger? Leaving Tyrande out of the story because potato...And for the horde was a dumpster fire, how? I don't know, but being the protagonists of the expansion doesn't sound like a dumpster fire to me...Giving vulpera to the horde players, who asked for them, and gave the mechagnomes to the alliance who no one asked for them, and almost no one plays as one... is alliance bias, of course
why not just leave void elves as they are instead of butchering the models and add in a high elf faction. All the models are already ingame, it would take almost no effort to do it, they don't even need a capital city since they are living in stormwind mostly. Give horde forest trolls or something, even ogres, i don't care. Blizzard is ridiculously stubborn over this.
Forget the blue eyes. I want sexy male underwear. Customizable thongs, please. ;) Females get sexy bikinis.
Blue eyes are great and all, my wife has blue eyes, but all I ever wanted was an actual full beard as well as a no-hair bald option for my Belf. And yes, I have, and will, say this on all the Belf customization posts.
Maybe high elves are fleeing to Silvermoon because of the growing void cult in Stormwind that's converting all their elven neighbors. I'm getting a real bodysnatchers vibe from these void elves that look like high elves.Also, the horrific visions of void elves taking over Stormwind was probably not a good look for them, especially since the king is a holy priest. Blue eyes won't keep the high elves safe next time if the humans want their 4th elven genocide.
Blizzard you are doing great. This is so good. Please don't fail right at the end. Give the Alliance Elves the normal range of hair colors as well, and let this debate end forever. You can give Belves the Void elf hair styles. You can give them the hair colors. I don't care. Plus, if the Void Elves can master the void to the point of preventing it from tainting their eyes and skin why wouldn't they be able to stop any changes to hair color? Doesn't hold up. I believe in you, you can do this. Just let your players be happy