You call my examples bogus, yet make a bogus example yourself. Is the "blood elf forsaken" going turn into a "human forsaken" the moment they enter combat? Nine times out of ten, when you, as a Horde, see a worgen around, they're in worgen form. Also, people don't play Worgen because they want to look like humans, mind you.
I'm not "deciding" anything. I'm just stating the facts as to why the idea is nonsensical.
That's a non-answer. If "Blizzard wants", they can decide to remove the forsaken playable race from the game. If "Blizzard wants", they can add full-sized Titans as a playable race. If "Blizzard wants", they can add a playable farmer class into the game.
How do you
know that "kul'tirans should not look different from Stormwind humans"?
It's not semantics. Again, the
playable forsaken race is the humans that died in Lordaeron when the Scourge invaded.
If you think you can prove that there were a sizable population of elves living in Lordaeron at the time of the Scourge invasion, big enough to warrant becoming playable, feel free. Just keep in mind that all the living high elves around weren't enough to warrant an allied race of their own, according to Blizzard's eyes.
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And Turalyon is still the leader of the Army of the Light.
I fail to see where I ever said I want the requests to stop or even that I want them to stop.
So has been the request to play as high elves as their own separate race.
You want facts? Here are some facts: Sylvanas is a banshee, the player character is a zombie. Sylvanas is an elf, the player character is a human. Making the forsaken playable race look like blood elves messes with the visual identity of the playable race.
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So you openly admit to using red herrings? Is that is?
One: I never said anything about "eating dark naaru".
Two: So you think that elves are risking their lives, willingly going through a trap that is intended to convert them into thralls of the Void Lords, and hoping to have it interrupted at the right time, risking death, or worse, being slaves of the Void Lords, is more likely than them undergoing a safer, more controlled process created by Locus Walker? Is that it?
While you state your headcanons as fact?
It is the same. So what if they don't go all the way, because "dark naarus" are a rare commodity to come by, especially one that falls "naturally".
Nope. Again, Sylvanas is an elf, and the player forsaken is a human. That's like saying my lightforged draenei should be able to look like a human since the leader of the Army of the Light is a human.
I suppose I should use simpler words, then? Considering I literally wrote the explanation and you even quoted it, but still act as if I didn't. Ok, here goes: dwarves are dwarves, elves are elves. But humans are not elves.
... Really? Did you play Legion at all? Did you forget Alleria
absorbing void energies more than once as you progress the quest line with her and Locus Walker? And what do you think a "dark naaru" is? It's pure void.
Humans are the face of the Alliance, and one of the two defining faces of the franchises. I honestly doubt Blizzard would add a 'human allied race' or 'human customization' to the Horde, just like I doubt Blizzard would ever add an 'orc allied race' or 'orc customization' to the Alliance.
It's not. If a Horde player sees a thalassian elf in the distance, and its outline, nameplate or targeting circle is red, then it's unmistakably a void elf. But if it's green (or blue) isn't unmistakably a blood elf.
Yes, they are.
We also had way, WAY more high elves in the world than brown orcs. And what was the reason that the developers game for the reason why high elves aren't eligible to be a playable race, again? I think it has to do with population, or lack thereof...