Blood Elves are basically High Elves. Slightly different eye color and backstory, but if you want to be a light skinned elf, that is basically a Blood Elf. Giving that to the Alliance would blur the line between factions.
There aren't a ton of High Elves out there in WoW.
If you are Alliance and want to be an elf, the Horde is there for you.
-Ion Hazzikostas: Game Director for World of Warcraft
hell i even scared to comment in their "disscussion" in this "High elf" discordi will be banned instantly if i do so. they are hilarious
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"There aren't that many High Elves in WoW" - Ian
There aren't that many Void Elves in WoW either, but y'all shoveled that shitty race on us.
His answer was biased, especially because of the arguments he gave.
But it was obvious that high elves werent coming just after void elves were released. He dismissed them now, but he also stated that they could come in the future.
So there wasnt much of news besides some biased answer.
If blizzard doesnt care about high elves, well they should kill vereesa and the silver covenant. His words are inconsistent to what appears ingame.
So everything remains as usual. The only thing new is that ion confirmed high elves arent coming soon, but everyone knew this already.
Perhaps it's time to close this thread, mods.
Discussion is settled and clearly a couple of posters are getting out of hand with all the bitterness and insults. Now people have a clear statement, should accept and move on. Not much else will come from keeping this thread open except for the usual whine.
There were two theories behind pro High Elfers rejecting the last interview Ion gave.
1.) Ion didn't know what he was talking about, Ion was caught on the hop by an unexpected question, Ion is an idiot.
and the Flubberpaddy theory
2.) Ion was secretly engaged in a disinformation campaign to mislead players into believing High Elves wouldn't become playable, because to do so on the day Void Elves were announced would steal thunder from the Void Elves. (This one is not really accepted outside Flubberpaddy).
The difference this time is that the pro High Elf community has spent the past six months organising forum threads, setting up their own discord, DeicideUH writing that manifesto, Taliesin and Evitel doing that video, seeing a few High Elves added to the beta, and actively misinterpreting developer responses or community management as expressing support for their position.
In the past few weeks, the pro High Elf community seemingly came to the conclusion they had the momentum behind them, that Blizzard was listening and that it was going to be a matter of time and persistence but that Blizzard would eventually commit to giving High Elves to the Alliance.
Which is why Ion's comments are much more devastating this time around. He repeated what he said in the earlier video, expanded on the reasons why High Elves weren't being added and confirmed the importance of the faction wall.
In other words, he validated the entire Anti High Elf position and showed that the efforts of the pro High Elf community had, after nearly seven months, amounted to nothing.
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I have to concur. There is no longer any discussion to be had.
The issue has been settled.
Blood Elves are basically High Elves. Slightly different eye color and backstory, but if you want to be a light skinned elf, that is basically a Blood Elf. Giving that to the Alliance would blur the line between factions.
There aren't a ton of High Elves out there in WoW.
If you are Alliance and want to be an elf, the Horde is there for you.
-Ion Hazzikostas: Game Director for World of Warcraft
Truly marvelous,
Well @Arrashi, time for you to leave the thread, argument over.