Blizzard won’t do things that are too easy but also won’t do things that are too difficult. They need things in that small niche of challenging enough but not mind blowing amounts. Reskinning and color changing for races: No too easy. Updating the Quel’thalas and the Azuremyst Isles? Too clunky and fucked up by code they wrote like 10 years ago. Shoving moose antlers on a tauren, well my good sir, you’re now speaking my language.

This actually isn’t that far off. Blizz is kinda weird like that.

It also feels like another case of, “You think you do, but you don’t” where people have been clamoring or wishing for something for so long, but Blizz just kinda… blows it off.

It’s like they think that high elves simply wouldn’t be “Rule of Cool” enough – so they had to jazz it up and make a whole new subset of elves no one really wanted. I imagine even the some of the people who might like the idea of playing a void elf would have probably preferred high elves on Alliance instead.

So many people are just going to RP void elves as high elves anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter.

But it doesn’t exactly make me confident that Blizz will ever do Mag’har or Blackrock orc skins or do more cosmetic updates for the older races beyond hair styles since it’s just kinda a new skin color to pick rather than some overly complex “Allied Race.”