This is a concept piece, from the start it isn't established lore because naga aren't playable, and all the factions hate them and they hate everyone. What does the night elves hating naga now have anything to do with them being playable later?
Everyone hating the scourge or the demon hunters didn't stop them from being playable. The blood leves hating the horde didn't stop them from being playable on it.
Actually I did, but I know you like those cool elven forms, and ofc the naga , after seeing the Eternal palace, you know would have an astonishingly cool city if revamped for a playable race.
The biggest attraction of the dual form is that the elven form is quite nice and will attract those who love elves but can't stand monsters. Monsters are always cool, but only to some, a niche group of mostly boys, they are certainly not everyone's cup of tea, but nice looking magical elves are always a huge hit, combine the two, like you can with naga, and you have hit, attracting both monster lovers and elf lovers.
They aren't mutually exclusive you know. I can want both, because both are in a bad state, and helping boost night elves boosts the alliance, but these will be about Naz'dorei, if you're talking naga you have night elf connection.
If we were talking another race that had nothing to do with Night elf lore, I wouldn't mention night elves. Naga, Satyr, Worgen - tha'ts all night elf related, and it is all cool, as is Highborne, Nightborne, Moonguard, Moon Priestesses too - there are a a lot of cool things about night elves.. totally wasted by not being realised or tied tot the original group.
No wonder people rave more about blood elves.. night elves have all these elements to them, and they're pretty much wasted. Improving and building the night elves is a sure way to a more appealing alliance foaction, but also it's really adding more cool things to the game. That naga are night elf related is not new.. if people hate night elves so much as to hate naga, then they won't pick em, but I haven't seen that hate at all. And as you can clearly see from this topic, the concept is VERY popular, despite the few haters.
Those ones obviously want elves to have nothing to do with this, as if you can make naga unrelated to welves. Theya re also a very small minority and will hate anything
THat's like saying blood elves can have a cool city, good for them, but let's not have anything related to them ever again, not San'layn, not dark fallen, not anythingclosely linked.
It's nonsense, we consnatly have stuff related to humans and orcs all the time, but after a few elf related things, you'd juoin the nay crowd.
But then you'd only do this regarding night elves, not blood elves.. at least not blood elves if it were to be received on the horde.
And what do you expect a night elf fan to do? Demand things that are horde based? Oh wait, that's what horde fans did, clamouring for Suramar, the heart and origin of the playable night elf faction and the kaldorei civilization.. sheesh, do you have no shame saying this?
You expect fans not to imagine cool things for the race they like based on the lore? Or does it irritate you that they are actually cool and would go to the faction you've grown use to dismisisng, feeling superior over and teased and tautned at their woeful pathetic presentation.
or do you not htink night elf fans are tired of seeing a race they love, that had so much cool and great things associated to them,e clipsed by every horde race and faction, not to menito their stuff used to brighten the other side too while they're lefteven more pathetic.
What do you expect them to do? like it? they offer ideas and suggestions for developments they find cool.. but you step in and go.. "it's not all about night elves", "you're pretty selfish desiring something you like to be better or be improved from it's pretty dismal state." Light ! Do you know what you're even saying?
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I actually agree with you. I don't see anythign wrong with them being how they are, it's their concept that is attractive, with their lore nad their history and thepart of the night elves they come form. and the elf form should be freaking attractive.
I mean you want players to actually play it. . no point making a monster half, only to have the humanoid form butt ugly too, it defeats the point, becuse you want it to be popular and for people to play and pick it..so you want both the pretty lovers and the monster lovers. If youw ere going to make the elf form ugly, or hideous, just leave it as the monster form.
I mean, the game is sufffering from popularity isuses, the stuff they are giving is not exciting..there was no new race or class in shadowlands, and after not very long it got boring, - look at what people flocked to, look at what they loved. Elves are right their at the top, cool things like great cities, lore related to the races they love and the fantasy of warcraft they have actually been quite starved for most of the time.
Focus on that, with good systems and games, and they'll come back.
Waste your time making your centre piece just a monster race, that is so niche - when you could have combined with an elven adaptation that people will find so cool and make the overall product way more popular, but ofc, I can't help them if they don't care.
Fans have spoken emphatically with their suggestions, reactions, the choices they pick in game, what they like, what they'd like improved.. if they fail to do cool stuff, the players like.. then the loss is theirs.
I'm not saying they can't do niche things, but they certainly shouldn't only do niche things - they need to also do popular things the greater majority are attracted to. As well as the niche things.