Originally Posted by
MyWholeLifeIsThunder
Like, here's the thing:
If you think that Faction Identity and Group Ideology will always mean less than Racial Definition/biological grouping, High Elves will never make sense for you, cause everything they could be is taking something away from "your" race, Blood Elves.
So unless HE somehow change their race (Like VE could have done) or it leads to Half Elves, it will never work for you. Every argument you make is in lieu of that, and no matter how "good" argument that attempts to tell you that High Elves can be made unique enough (culturally, aesthetically, gameplaywise) won't work because as long as they are High Elves, they are taking something away from Blood Elves.
How justified any of you are on feeling so proprietary of the Blood Elf past is not for me to decide or call bull on it. All I will say is that in all fairness it already happened to NE with the NB, and to a far more weird extent with VE in a way that could have been made about HE. But as proprietor you feel of anything Blood Elf related, the alliance High Elves remain outside that, and thusly, be either by nostalgia or just alliance favoritism, people will gravitate to that and there's nothing you can do about that.
Whether High Elves happen is beyond the point. As long as they are a presence on the alliance, as long as they are still are a thing that is, people are going to want them. So as long any solution is given to that thread, this is not going to end.
As for the solution, one that doesn't include Playable High Elves? It could be many things; transform all HE into VE, obliterate them, Phase them into Half Elves, Transfrom them Back into Night Elves? Dragon Elves? Whatever; but I think that as a whole we have to accept that the way Blizzard has handled High Elves hasn't been the best, and we should all want for this issue to actually resolve somehow.
Like even if you hate Pro HE people, you would at least want them to shut up.