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I don't understand why you find Naga, Ethereals and Arrakoa a stupid idea for playable races?
Blizzard already said that they want Naga as a playable race (Actually Metzen said that), Ethereals are one of the most popular races and Arrakoa are popular (not that popular) and is the easier one to add (and the one that have more sense for the Alliance if we have a expansion in Draenor)
So what you're saying is...twice they had Ogres slated for a possible race and twice they opted them out because they found another race more interesting or fit better with the story. In that regard, you can almost guarantee they won't make it, with the exception being the leaked title alluding to Draenor. Logic and history states they'll find a more suitable, interesting, and lorrific race to add. Speculation states they may be added because of the ties, but I just don't see it. Do I get a 2-headed option? How different do females look, since they've barely been mentioned? I know, these are minor details, but they play a deciding role in the choices Blizzard makes.
I don't remember many people mentioning Pandaren as a possible race at all until the leaks of MoP. Afterward, the community was split between "terrible" and "awesome", with few in the middle.
I still want to know why Akama and Maiev are featured on the Outland loading screen after Cataclysm...
At this point, I'll take Murlocs over Ogres. MURLOCS are long overdue and well deserved, IMO. We take them for granted, recognize their cuteness, yet can't understand the depths of their development. Pew pew.
It comes down to feasibility. Some, like the Arakkoa, are more acceptable. Ethereals seem like more of a stretch, given their abilities and nature. They know a lot about the universe and travel the Twisting Nether, have ridiculous technology and are willing to play every side. Yes, things can be altered, but if I got to play an Ethereal and didn't have knowledge of the star systems, planets, technologies, it wouldn't make sense. I'd be playing an empty shell of an Ethereal. With that race comes certain ties, that if aren't brought along just make it a moot point to even suggest them. Would it be cool? Sure! But it'd just be reallllly hard to incorporate them.
Naga, well, they're pretty bad. But another elf variation? YUCK! :P
Last edited by WorldofWorkcraft; 2013-11-06 at 06:24 PM.
All three of those races races were considered for Cata though, and Metzen's on record saying he wants the former (at least) to happen one day.
Compare that to blue-eyed blood elves, who despite not even making the shortlist and Blizzard themselves saying "no" to, keep on coming up every time fans discuss the subject.
Because with BC the horde was very much under populated, which was why Blood Elf won that match. The Blood Elf served the purpose of giving the horde a more human looking race which did even the numbers somewhat.
In cataclysm it was basically the horde needed a gnome equivilant and the goblins and the gnomes have always been competing and fighting. And the Ogre would fit in with a revamped azeroth as much as the goblin did.
Here there is the possibility of Draenor as the expansion, not Outland. And the only native races that are from Draenor with the exception of Orcs are Ogres and Arakkoa. Which is why most are betting on the two.
Actually they were slated for TBC as the alliance race but the Draenais took their place fitting more into the Outland theme.
I'm not sure why Maiev is there but it's obvious why Akama is there. Maiev is not even in the game at this point nor were she back in TBC. Other than that it's blizzard not updating Outlands. >_>
No. Murlocs are not intelligent enough to become a playable race. That is why we have something like the Jinyu which is a relative of the Murloc. And seriously it's a sodding murloc... Kill all of them I say!
Last edited by Micromadsen; 2013-11-06 at 06:29 PM.
I'm personally hoping for something completely out of left field if anything. Or a new ranged class instead of a new race/races. We really need a new ranged class.
No, the fact that they almost made it twice means that they're most definitely being seriously considered once again. It's the fact that they almost made it that counts, because that means Blizzard wants to make them playable, but they've simply been outprioritized. So yeah, Blizzard has tried to add them seriously before, this isn't a matter of history repeating itself, because by now Ogres are the only real suitable choice for this kind of expansion theme. They're also interesting in their own right, and they already have a culture of worshipping Gronns and what not, so they are "lorrific" as you put it. Of course they'd need to figure out a lot of different things in order to make them properly playable, but fact is that they'd need to figure out much more stuff for every other race choice. Goblins proved to be a feasible choice because they had already set so many things in stone beforehand, while Worgens and Draenei were the exact opposite, Ogres would be as easy to make playable as Goblins, except that they'd need to figure out how the females look, which they had to do with Pandarens, Worgens and Draeneis too.
And there were many Pandaren threads, always filled with half "yay" and half "fuck you" as you mention. But they were many, and Blizzard themselves have stated they added them due to sheer demand.
Akama and Maiev on the Outland loading screen means nothing, just like unfrozen Bolvar does, probably even less. It's just for show. Like Blizzard themselves say, sometimes they just add things because they're cool, not because of some hidden meaning. In the current Outland loading screen's case, it's probably just to summarize important characters at the time of TBC.
Btw, good luck getting your Murlocs in a Draenor expansion. Murlocs pose many more problems than Ogres in every feasible way. And if they're well deserving, then why aren't Ogres? Ogres are more deserving than any other race that can potentially be added and have been added, maybe with the exception of Goblins, because they were there right from the start, they were there along with Daemons (as Demons were called back in WC1), Orcs and Humans right in the beginning. I don't see why you can't see them being playable, because it's something a lot of people have seen as only logical for many years. If any race is long overdue, it's definitely Ogres.
But again, it depends on if we're even getting any new races at all.
Last edited by wariofan1; 2013-11-06 at 06:34 PM.
Ethereals are cool, but i dont think they will be in game as playable race, i mean, i cant imagine a female Ethereal, and what about their faces? If people bitch about fem worgs and fem pandas only having 1 face option...think about Ethereals then....
For a new race all i want its a sexy race with 5 fingers and toes on their hand and feet and glorious epics bewbs that is more bouncy than the fem dwarves one <3. Also, dont make the weapons look like a tiny stick.
with new character models a high possibility for the new expansion i would bet there are no new races or classes this expansion.
just my gut feeling and my gut is only wrong 20% of the time.
Hi
Murloc all the way