You can never have enough elves.
All of which have populations far higher than High elves.
Quelthalas was not a highly populace society to begin with. In many fantasy worlds elves just don't breed in great numbers. Gilneas doesn't have many people dead, Pandaren wandering isle have a greater population than high elf. So do Trolls.
High elves are so rare that to see one would be a shock. That's how rare they are, it's likely only in the hundreds or maybe even a thousand left maximum. While there's likely at least tens of thousands everything else minimum.
Population argument doesn't work because the questing exp now is about how you are a hero, how many other members of your race aren't relevant anymore, goblin shows that more than anything, you and a handful of shipwreck survivors make it to Org and fight for the horde. But there are so many other Goblins in the Horde post lost isles? it isn't relevant when picking a race to be a hero.
As a horde player I see just as many Alliance NPC's that are identified as High Elves, as I do any other race.
Here's why High Elves can't/won't be added.
1. The fact that it hasn't happened yet means Blizzards has no intention of doing it.
2. Giving Alliance players access to a model that was purely horde is unfair to horde, there are less options to give horde and alliance only model, as there is just less lore to work with.
3. Alliance High elves probably work better in the fabled sub-race paradigm, and that system is probably a taller order than us players want to believe.
Even if it would make sense lorewise, it would still be a terrible idea for the game. First of all it would take something away from the Horde, which was exclusive to them. Which also happens to be their most popular race. Which brings me to my second point. On Horde side we are already flooded with these Elves. Whenever I play a BG, I'm quite often surrounded by almost nothing but Elves. Now imagine High Elves on the Alliance side and how this BG will look. Elves, Elves, Elves everywhere. Or imagine Dalaran. It will take away immersion.
I understand people like to play a pretty Elf, they are there. Play a Blood Elf, or play a Night Elf. But please let it be something original when new races are introduced.
I really dont care is marmots become a playable race now as long as blizz makes the limit of playable toons from 50 to 100!!
Yes i gotta alot of alts thanks to WoD
The funny thing is that its true.
The funnier thing is that high elves will never be playable.
I am actually pretty sure lorewise High elves are still on the side of the alliance. first of all, There have always been High elves in SW and the like. And in cata, the high elves of dire maul Rejoined the alliance, It was a pretty big thing politic wise. (which is also on a lore gameplay reason why Night elves can be mages, which they swore never to use, but it been traninen by the high elves.)
Ok im tired of false info by alliance players. So some info from blizz webpage.
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/game/races/blood-elf
Read the damm thing!
It's also kind of hard to work with that kind of lore when Horde playable goblins were locked up in one small boat, and Horde playable pandaren fit into a single hot air balloon to fly from the Wandering Isle to Orgrimmar. Worgen too. Didn't they escape from Gilneas on one boat and land at the dock town beneath Darnassus?
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
if someone cries, make a thread about it. They will be happy then.
hit & run posting lol
Copied from the Warcraft Encyclopedia,
In consequence, there are so few high elves left on Azeroth today that they cannot be considered a race in anything other than the biological sense. High elves did not gather in any significant numbers, nor did they act as a coordinated whole. They are a very small group of individuals scattered all over the world. As such, they do not have common opinions or goals. Indeed, modern high elves cannot even truly be said to have a culture—only a past filled with glory and regret.
Soooo that's not happening.