That doesn't change the fact that you have taken a dirty advantage at an impossibility of retort.
A faction divide that HE are incapable of destroy, since you could not play with the other faction while at the same time you would be playing with a character that would be exclusive from the faction you created in, amirite?
If that was not the case, you would not even need the same race, you could play a forsaken in the alliance, which is not the case. But guess what, forsaken are horde, high elves are alliance, and blood elves are horde, you cannot destroy a faction divide with a high elf character.
In fact, it completely destroys your whole idea that factions are determined by the races that compose them, and not the other way around.
Did the horde went into being not the horde anymore when Blood elves got introduced into it? forsaken did that? Nightborne? Zandalari?
Did the alliance went into being not the alliance anymore because they introduced Draenei, Night elves, Void elves, Worgen?
Did any of the former factions went into not being itself anymore when Pandaren went into both factions at the exact same time with the exact same everything?.
No.
You really want to hold onto the hot nail of them being few huh? it was demonstrated again and again that population is not that big of an issue as many want to portray.
It's crazy to think that you come here spouting that we don't have anything to hold our argument while at the same time you just handwave it all because you don't like it.
High elves have done military effort in alliance storylines and also have civilian life. You -cannot- have those when your population -is- lower than a literal crack squad. It doesn't hold any ground, accept it.
Also, you are correct, High elves are alliance and they -are- faction pride of the alliance. The video you posted is about faction pride, not racial pride, since the races that conforms the factions are just members of it.
Intimidation? You can't be serious...
The idea. -Obviously-. It's to show from where you come from. A Blood elf player that is afraid that his little Blood elf will get less special in his eyes if HE get added.
I was contrary to this idea that most of the anti side of the request came from Blood elf players, but day after day it has proven correct. That's why i link my character in my signature, a Blood elf from Silvermoon, with pride for the horde. And also a link to this same thread giving my support to it.
That's why i feel your stance on maintaining a made out sense of Blood elves being special snowflakes is completely flawed, since it evades facts as High elves being members of the Alliance and a rightful allied race and it steps on other players that just want to have a complete, lore-friendly world of warcraft.
They are Alliance.
I expect to not have the need to clear this twisted statement again.
Chris Metzen said: 'Blood elves are our High elves'
And the -literal- interpretation from that is that Blood elves are the playable High elves of world of warcraft taking into account what a High elf in most fantasy media is.
That was back in 2007, at the presentation of the new expansion, the burning crusade, which portrayed Blood elves in the horde and the developers explaining what approach they made into it. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's completely shameless that you, again and again, come up with a twisted statement as that while trying to pass it as truth.
Next time try to not dismiss the context of what you present, since it doesn't make any good to anyone. Starting with yourself.
What humans and Dwarves have been in the horde all this time, Obelisk? May you enlighten us with that lost knowledge?
May you try to bring up points that are not out of touch?
Nobody is out there maintaining Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, Goblins, Undead or Lightforged Undead because there is no basis at all. And the most near are Lightforged Undead who just falls apart when knowing that there is only one of them.
May you try to bring up points that are not out of touch?
Also, you said in last page that HE are definitely ruled out and by any strange reason you, the enlighten, are the only one here who sees it.
If that's the case, i don't understand why you have been in here all this time. If that's the case, you could let us, the dirty ignorant, alone discussing something that is not going to happen.
Maybe you were not that honest with it? Maybe you perfectly know that HE are not ruled out forever and ever?
Accepting Void elves with normal-ish skins is a rushy attempt to have the request fulfilled, is not a desirable path for most of the community. But how not, you are again taking that out of context by taking all the people who request for HE under one single thing.
May you try bring up points that are not out of touch?
Small nuances.
You maintain that idea because Ghostcrawler said something in one tweet one day. A little opinion that has not been repeated since, but whatever dude it's your faith and faith is a powerful weapon huh?
'I'm not a fan'. That's it. Never been repeated or expanded by anyone.
Are you a developer? Can you please remember how many times you felt that you knew what's going on inside the kitchen and been proven wrong by the results? What are your sources stating that this is a fact or even a proof?
Nice opinion, where can i find something that prove this?
Aaaaand this is another quote taken out of context and twisted to make it seem another thing.
Ion Hazzikostas refers explicitly about gameplay.
Not lore.
Gameplay. Factions. Playing horde and grouping with alliance and vice versa. Not lore. Not races. Factions in the context of gameplay.
Is it wrong that the HE request is indistinctive whether Blood elves exist or not? Would players, who know that HE exist, not ask for them if they are not playable? Even if Blood elves didn't exist? Do you have the necessity to go against a simple truth as that?
Simple, and i repeat: High elves are not playable, then people in the alliance ask for them, period.
Easy and clean.
It proves you wrong in those all many times you took advantage of the confusing nomenclature of the HE and BE to mix things up and go against simple trivia.
Whatever.
You answer with an unrelated thing just to jump with some kind of despite against the requesters... How about you stick with a related response instead of diverging just to make an attack on anything that is also completely unrelated?
Most of the discussion is about opinions. This includes you. Just look at what you bring up when writing about neutral races...
And your intentions with this are...?
You are not speaking to a political party or a member of a political party. We don't have a consensus and the Alurna's manifest is not a doctrine of any sort. We don't know most of other requesters. Seriously, what are you on about?
'Is self evident'
Cool opinion.
Lacking evidence.
Funny.
Of course not accepting everything as an immobile fact is inability to accept it. How not? It would be easier if we all just become yesmen amirite?
Dev commentary is not being 'castigated'. Is being put under scrutiny. Since they are human beings and not everything they say is holy word. Love.