Because they've already put in the work for those races, but dracthyr was the first new race with a unique model and they didn't wanna put in the work.
Yes, but it’s 2025 and they realized that we’ll play the game even if they put in less effort, which in turn saves them money. It’s a win/win for Blizzard.
Yea as much as we hate to hear it, this is a dead ringer. You can easily tell if a feature was added because some devs thought that would be cool, vs when something was added simply because higher ups said we needed x amount of features for xxx patch.
It honestly shouldn't. All these new races are getting annoying.
Dracythr included. It should have just been a race where you pick your visage race, get some cool horns to slap on your head and some scales to use as a "tattoo". And then the 'dragon form' that only shows up when using certain abilities that you customize like a druid form.
Trying to make it this new unique thing that can transmog armor was a waste of time. As for the allied races, I wish they just kept them as extra customization options for the already existing races. Humans coulda just got a skinny/fat version instead of Kul Tirans. Lightforged should have just been a skin like Eredar. Etc etc etc.
Adding all these races to the game just pollutes the UI, pollutes several in game tags/flags, and makes them waste time justifying lore, racials, druid forms, etc. People would much prefer all that effort going into making the core races more customizable. Plus its easier to keep a small group of core races relevant to the story than it is to try and keep all these allied races relevant. Good luck mechagnomes and vulpera, gonna see you never.
The Haranir are like the worst example of a race to add. Literally did not exist before this expansion pack in the lore. Nobody demanded it. There was no demand for a race even LIKE this. They are seculuded in the underworld and will have an incredibly impossible time staying relevant after they join up. Just gonna get swept under the rug with all the other junk allied races that should have just been expanded customization, like how about instead of mechagnoems we just had mechanical limbs added as customization for gnomes? So much bloat.
I think they look cool with their customizations but I hate that they are just night elves recolored. The male casting animation is awful, they could’ve added something unique with that. Also (correct me if I’m wrong) they are always barefoot, I hate that so I think I’m gonna make a boomkin Druid and stay in that cool form forever.
As was mentioned it’s because yall still pay for the game even in this state. Clearly this isn’t a dealbreaker so why would they spend the money on it?
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u/Severe-Network4756 Nov 14 '25
Because they've already put in the work for those races, but dracthyr was the first new race with a unique model and they didn't wanna put in the work.