Population is no longer a viable argument for playable races or classes. Demon Hunters number in the hundreds. Many have died and Illidan hasn't been around to make more. Can Void Elves have babies? Are Blood Elves just going to keep leaking out of Silvermoon to reinforce Void Elf numbers? Lightforged Draenei number small enough to fit onto a single ship (a couple hundred most?) and many of them died in Antorus and on Argus. The Nightborne are one city of elves that just had over half their population wiped out.
Also, as the Void Elves and Draenei have proven, Blizzard can conjure races from nowhere or justify in the writing that there are more here or there. They could even use the Caverns of Time as a tool like they did for WoD. I'm not saying those are good solutions but Blizzard basically doesn't care about its lore at this point. They are full-fledged corporate mode now and they care about one thing and one thing only: Dosh. Cash. Money. Bling bling. $$
This entire argument falls apart because at every time it should have worked in your eyes, it does not. If $$$ was the goal, they would be playable a second time on the Alliance side.
As always though, your arguments boil down to "I am right because I saw so" and building off linking imaginary dots.
Have all the BfA Allied Races been announced? Do you know something the rest of us don't? Do you have an inside connection? No. Then you have no better idea than me or anyone else. Just because they weren't offered in the initial races does not mean they won't be added later. The very fact that Allied Races were added was $$. Its WoW version of the loot box. You know how many people are paying $25 just to race change? Its insane. Go look at the official forums.
No he didn't. Just because Ion says something doesn't make it gospel #1 and #2 you're misinterpreting what he said. There is nuance in language. What he said was that "High Elves are pretty much Blood Elves" which in noncommittal lawyer speak. He has also cited before in interviews that he doesn't know much about the lore. The guy ran Elitist Jerks and was in a top raiding guild. Not many of those types know or care about lore.
Your point about DHs isn't right. They start out before we killed Illidan in TBC. The same concept goes for DKs; they start out in the beginning of Wrath, even to this day. Their population isn't comparable to High Elves.
Giving a race a starting zone locks them to a certain point in time, meaning that population numbers won't matter since lorewise the player is amongst the first to become adventurers. I don't see that happening with High Elves.
I'm not pro-High Elf is probably why you haven't seen me arguing for them. It's just that his arguments against them are ridiculous and completely fanboy in nature. His view on the Alliance/Horde and Blood Elves is completely black and white. If you've seen the amount of back and forth we've had over the past year or two on this forum, perhaps you would better understand why I said what I said.
Whatever the lead game dev says is lore unless it is changed later. Later on in that video, he goes on to say there are no large populations of high elves left, nor areas where they would be sending adventures . None of this has changed since the last threads that popped up because of this.
Don't bother, people who actually defend the Void Elf story at this point are the same people who think that two characters acknowledging major drama between them somehow resolves it (ie, lowbrow GoT fans).
The fact that there was a hint at this garbage fire a patch before is enough for these wonderfully intelligent folks.
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I constantly read Friendly's posts, he's really not one for strawmanning, and headcanon.
Did you miss the part in the DH starting quests where when you come back through the sargerite portal there is only a handful of Demon Hunters left and they are all imprisoned by Maiev? Illidan trained all of them. There has been no one out there to train more as all but one Demon Hunter to our knowledge was imprisoned (Altruis).
That doesn't mean anything. The player is one of the few trapped in the Vault, but that doesn't mean that it invalidates all the other Demon Hunters that exist. There are tons of Demon Hunter NPCs walking around Fel Hammer. There are Illdari stands all over the Broken Isles. Where did they all come from?
Not necessarily. Pandaren weren't a new name so to speak. Blizzard had to figure out their entire backstory. And they were given a rather rich one. Void elves on the other hand have five minutes of back story which is: the void can be controlled now because reasons.
Then you don't know what headcanon is evidently. Everything he posts related to Alliance is from one perspective and there is no other way to interpret it (ie; evil). He does the same with High Elves and Blood Elves. When you make a good point, instead of address it he misdirects. You can't have dialogue with him. Everything is a debate. Enough on him and on you. Moving on...
Void Elves are just a lore abomination. Anyone who cares about lore in this game should be very worried with the direction Allied Races and the impact on the lore they will have. I have a bad feeling, as evidenced by Void Elves, that there is going to be a lot of shoehorning. The lore community needs to hold Blizzards feet to the fire if they care about it otherwise its going to be completely compromised for money and gameplay reasons.
Headcanon.
Headcanon.
Ehm, no, that was Varimathras. Should Silvermoon ally with the Burning Legion next? Oh, wait, they did.
... They are literally the same effin' humans. Djeezes, what is wrong with you?
Sure, because a nature-loving druid who has never set foot on the Eastern Kingdom introducing a race of undead creatures he has never seen before to a Warchief who has fled to another continent from these exact same people's concentration camps makes perfect sense, right?
Oh, right, so in this case it matters that part of Dalaran was Alliance aligned ...
... but in this case it doesn't matter that part of the Shattered Sun was Alliance aligned.
Those are some hilarious double standards.
Headcanon.
Not even headcanon. Just pure bullshit. They formed the Council of Tirisfall because demons happened.
Headcanon, and constantly shown not to be the case.
That's friggin' hilarious coming from someone who gets one thing after the other wrong.
Headcanon. Also, human-elf alliance going back literal millennia.
They didn't join the war because they didn't take the Scourge seriously. Nobody did, until it was too late.
So, yeah, headcanon once more.
Nobody made that argument, but hey.
Ah, well, in that case the Alliance should just burn down Quel'Thalas, since Kael'Thas allying with Kil'Jaiden clearly means Silvermoon is still in league with the Burning Legion and cannot be trusted, right?