Originally Posted by
Lord Garithos
Alliance players have been asking for high elves before blood elves were even in the game. 14 years later and the most the devs are willing to give us has been a shitty compromise in the form of purple "I can't believe its not high elves!"
Just to really let the absurdity of the devs' Horde bias sink in, imagine if the original 4 races had been humans, dwarves, night elves, and blood elves for the Alliance and orcs, tauren, undead, and goblins for the Horde. When people ask why the Darkspear trolls aren't playable, despite interacting with them throughout several questlines, the devs tell them that there simply weren't enough to be playable because they all came from a small island and most of them were wiped out but maybe they would add them later. Then, the first expansion comes around and they do several rewrites to the lore and have a large faction of trolls join the Alliance because they felt betrayed by the Horde. Horde players are rightfully annoyed that the race they wanted to play as since vanilla were shoehorned into the Alliance but even worse is the fact that they simultaneously tease you by added the Darkspear trolls as an unplayable NPC faction to the Horde. Then the next expansion comes out and a very large faction of Darkspear trolls on the Horde form an army to aid in the assault on the Lich King but still remain unplayable. People point to the obviously significant number of them and ask again that they be made playable only to be told that they don't want to blur faction lines and that there simply aren't enough Darkspear trolls to be playable.
Several expansions of featuring the Darkspear trolls prominently at the forefront of the story go by without even so much as a hint of them being made playable until finally we reach BFA. Allied races are the perfect time to finally add Darkspear trolls to the Horde but instead of Darkspear trolls, exactly what Horde players have been asking for since the beginning of the game, they get void trolls, a few dozen trolls that come from the Alliance faction of trolls that are an obvious bastardization of what you've actually wanted to play for ages now. When asked why they made up something that nobody ever asked to play as instead of the race they've requested for more than a decade, they simply tell you that Darkspear trolls are Alliance trolls and that if you want to play as a lanky, long-tusked mojomaker, the Alliance is there waiting for you. No matter how much feedback you give on how the Darkspear trolls are different in the lore or what customization options could set them apart from Alliance trolls, or even how every supposed rule for why they can't be made playable has been contradicted by other playable characters over the years you'll just get hordes of people telling you to suck it up and accept your shitty compromise.
If that wasn't enough to annoy you, they also spend years neglecting your content in favour of developing the Alliance zones and story first, even going as far as to reuse assets on your new mounts while the Alliance get 3 brand new models. Your complaints are met with dismissal as you're told that the Horde is just boring and generic orc fantasy tropes so you should just accept your reskins and unfinished content because the Alliance is so much cooler. When the Alliance finally get to play as Vrykul, you get fat orcs instead of ogres. When the Alliance get to play as the the cool new race of Sethrak they've been asking for since BFA was first announced, you instead get amputee goblins with robotic limbs that people generally find unsettling more than appealing. Just to really rub it in, they announce new customization for the base game races a month later, making your new allied "race" look even more shitty when its essentially just customization for an existing race compared with the Alliance's unique and brand new playable race. They also fail to address concerns of a dying population for the Horde, making it harder and harder to find groups for content because absolutely everything in the game is catered towards the Horde and the snowball effect of people jumping ship is just further exacerbating the issue with each passing update. Despite all of this, Alliance players will still tell you to shut up and accept things because you're just being whiny without any legitimate grievances about the game's biased development.
If all of that sounds ridiculous, petty and spiteful, that's because it is.