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Why do people hate on Blood Elves so much?
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Post by
Monday
Most of the elves left are Blood Elves though.
Post by
Draol
Actually, I think very few lore fans would argue that the Blood Elves should join the Alliance, precisely because of the reasons you just listed. Rather, I believe the argument is that it would've made an awful lot more sense to have the High Elves join the Alliance, and give the Horde a different race, Ogres for example, or Goblins. Rather than the Horde getting Blood Elves (who are only really allied with the Forsaken, and see the rest of the Horde as expendable muscle), and the Alliance getting... random squid that sort of fell out of the sky from out of nowhere (yes I know they retroactively changed the lore to plug uncorrupted Eredar in, but they weren't there before the rewrite). Of course, that would ruin the whole Draenei vs Blood Elves backstory in Outland, so it's not exactly viable, but you have to admit given pre-TBC lore it made more sense for people to expect High Elves in the Alliance than their distant corrupted cousins in the Horde.
P.S. Most Forsaken are actually former human citizens of Lordaeron, since the Plague started there. Elves only make up a small percentage, there weren't that many of them to begin with and even fewer were turned.
I see. However i've heard the annoying argument that Blood Elves belong on alliance side way too often, so I went off into my rant there.
Technically High Elves are on the Alliance side, we just can't play them. Which would be stupid, having two kinds of elves on one faction. Then again there are two kinds of humans...(j/k, j/k)
P.S. I see. Kind of makes sense but my mind was on elves.
Post by
Varicelle
If male BELFs weren't so gay then things would work out between us. I can only handle so much
... Female BELFS on the other hand = SEXY
This comment right here almost makes me want to take their side. Is it a caricature of a hordie male?
That said, the fact that a good chunk of the top raiders in my guild play belves helped me to stop assuming there's a "stupid kid" behind the keyboard everytime i see one.
Forsaken are my favourite race hands down, although gobelins are tons of fun. Male nelves are the most ridiculous-looking for me.
Post by
Nipah
If male BELFs weren't so gay then things would work out between us. I can only handle so much
... Female BELFS on the other hand = SEXY
This comment right here almost makes me want to take their side. Is it a caricature of a hordie male?
That said, the fact that a good chunk of the top raiders in my guild play belves helped me to stop assuming there's a "stupid kid" behind the keyboard everytime i see one.
Forsaken are my favourite race hands down, although gobelins are tons of fun. Male nelves are the most ridiculous-looking for me.
Male Night Elves look like they surgically attached gorilla arms to their torso... probably so they could more easily scratch their flat asses.
... yeah, I hate em.
That being said: I prefer the way the male Blood Elves looked before they "beefed" them up... mainly because I actually like having a race that doesn't look like it could bench press 3 sedans (which explains why I like Trolls and Forsaken).
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Post by
nuckingfutz
Male Night Elves look like they surgically attached gorilla arms to their torso... probably so they could more easily scratch their flat asses.
To be fair, I'd say the same for the females. Their arms just look... mutant.
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Post by
Adamsm
Because the look like Night Elves mixed with Trolls! Mixed Breed!
/twitch You realize, if the legends/rumours are right, that the Night elves are descended from Trolls right?
Post by
FarseerLolotea
Why do people hate blood elves?
1) Elves in general are overdone.
2) Because they're a "pretty" race, they're overplayed.
3) The nerdrage over the Horde getting a "pretty" race and the Alliance getting a "weird" one could have blotted out the sun.
4) They act snooty and prissy (which was probably the wrong way to go about portraying an arrogant, haughty race...but that's a separate complaint), and...well, let's just say that electronic gamers are an insecure lot.
Post by
OverZealous
Might be because the females are more masculine than the males...
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743774
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Post by
zxczxczbfg
Back in the days of BC, everyone was whining about how the Horde would get a "pretty" race. What I don't understand is why no one pays attention to the fact that the Alliance got it somewhat worse. They got freaking ALIENS! Aliens descended from DEMONS! If there's a race that lends itself more to Mary Sueism, I don't want to know what it is.
Post by
Rystrave
^ Holy necro. Not really neccessary.
I remember doing a quests in Blade's Edge (I think) about an Orc and a male Blood Elf. It basically was making fun of the femmy-ness of the belf. Probably was one of my favorite quest lines.
Edit: belf warriors are about as much of an abomination as Patchwerk is.
Post by
Adamsm
Eh, all the Blood Elf haters have jumped on the Pandaren hater train now.
Post by
Rankkor
Eh, all the Blood Elf haters have jumped on the Pandaren hater train now.
and before the jumped on the "hate the panda" bandwagon, they took a sweet ride on the "hate the worgen" wagon.
Moral of the Lesson: Haters will always be haters. When there's something new to hate, they'll move to hate that.
Everyone hated DKs on WOTLK, much as a lot of folks hate Mages on cata, and I'm predicting a lot more will hate the monks in MoP.
Justified? no way. But as the old saying goes (paraphrased) "Mankind invented language to express their need to complain"
Post by
Adamsm
Because the vocal minority doesn't speak for everyone; and that's the group that spews the most hate.
Post by
Adamsm
Because the vocal minority doesn't speak for everyone; and that's the group that spews the most hate.
Nobody on here speaks for the majority of players - it is just a tiny number of people within the game that post.
Of course... but that doesn't stop the vocal minority from acting like they speak for everyone when they tell Blizzard everything they are doing sucks and they could do the job a thousand times better; remember the old adage 'Those who scream loudest, say the least'.
Post by
yukonjack
Bigotry in some folks must be a very strongly hardwired genetic imperative if it extends to video game races.
Post by
hymer
Because the vocal minority doesn't speak for everyone; and that's the group that spews the most hate.
I resent that implication, especially since you seem to give it at as a good reason for telling people to shut up. I get to be annoyed with pandas, and I get to say so in public.
As for the 'haters gonna hate' (which apparently is meant to say that anything I utter is irrational and destructive), I bought BC way before I needed it, because I wanted to be able to play a blood elf. I'm utterly indifferent to worgen. Pandaren rub me the wrong way, and I'd much rather have been without them.
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