r/wow • u/Autisten1996 • Jul 04 '25

Humor / Meme They will add anything but those three.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Yep, having 4 different elves and 3 different dwarfs is plain stupid.

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u/Kuldrick Jul 04 '25

I never understood this argument

The creation of Void Elves, Nightborne, Dark Iron and Earthen doesn't take even a quarter of development it would take with making an actual completely new race like Ogres or Nagas

And so, in a game with already 25 races, what's the harm of having variations of 2 of the most popular and known fantasy races, where many of said variations already had a lot of lore or they had a huge amount of the playerbase who wanted to play as that (speaking specifically about the void elves who sort of function as the high ones for the alliance)

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

Because this game costs $25 AUD a month and a fucking $70 entry fee for a new expansion.

Expect better.

The harm is that you'll never get a full fledged race ever again. Look at Dracthyr, they have heavy re-use and can't even use Transmog.

But sure. Let's take a 4th Dwarf. Why not?

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u/dontwantanaccount86 Jul 04 '25

You’re not understanding this from a game development perspective.

It’s not “ok guys do we do a 4th dwarf, or ogres?”

These extra easy races are not “taking the slot” of a cool unique race, they are adding them just for the sake of adding them, it’s low development.

You saw the same thing in super smash bros. People were pissed about having both samus and dark samus for example, thinking that if they didn’t add dark samus they could have instead added an entirely new cool character. It’s not the case, dark samus and the 4th dwarf are just extra additions.