These are such minuscule amounts though, they really are. What is an extra 60g when a wow token sells for 200k gold? Or when you can just run an old raid in 10 minutes and make 1500g?
If they were to add a 30% increase in rep for Alliance (because everything is tied to rep nowadays), I feel Alliance would get quite the boost.
Noone plays as gnome so why anyone should play as mechagnome? i mean mechagnomes are better than those normal but they are still gnomes
all content releases should be ceased immediately to solve the issue of the game getting progressively worse
Assuming the source is accurate for the sake of the argument:
According to warcraftrealms the there is 58% to 42% ratio between Horde and Alliance to begin with, so number of allied race characters being split 50/50 wouldn't actually be balanced.
Then there is the furry factor, which breaks this comparison, because while Vulpera are Blizzard's recent attempt to harness the furry community on Horde side, their Alliance counterpart is concentrated on Worgen, which isn't part of allied races.
If you exclude the furry factor and remove Vulpera and for balance sake Mechagnomes you end up with 14476:9601 allied races or 60%-40% furry adjusted split, which comes reasonably close to the overall faction split of the players base.
Why is this a surprise...The alliance is beyond dead. In EU we have what 3 realms thats somewhat populated...Silvermoon, Ravencrest......maybe 1 more. Anyway wow is ofc also not as popular as it once was, but this hord trend started already in TBC.
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Yup, i agree. It's completely irresponsable from the devs. Part of the reason i'm not subbed anymore.
Update:
Vulpera snatched the prime position from the Zandalari now, Void elves are now in third place:
Vulpera 6507 19,5 H Zandalari 6153 18,4 H Void Elf 5412 16,2 A Nightborne 4501 13,5 H Mag'Thar 3291 9,8 H Highmountain 2059 6,2 H Dark Iron 1929 5,8 A Lightforged 1906 5,7 A Kul Tiran 911 2,7 A Mechagnome 770 2,3 A
Overall Vulpera even managed to get ahead of Worgen numbers. The top two Horde allied races are more than all of the Alliance allied combined (by a wide margin 37,8%:32,7% Rest of the allied Horde races combined 29,4%).
To the surprise of noone, everyone plays Horde nowadays, Alliance is a dead faction.
Not to mention that historically the Horde receives pretty much everything they wanted and some more even if there is no lore implication...with the sole exception of Ogres which must be some sort of internal taboo at this point.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't resonate well with the faction, if there is a willingness for it the Horde will get it and lore will bend for it, be it magical popular Night Elves from Legion, the long requested Zandalari and "Brown Orcs", tiny cute foxes and so on.
Alliance, on the other hand, never receives what they ask for and when they do it's usually in an odd twisted way like the Void Elves.
It doesn't matter if they ask for something cool (Sethrak), boring (Wildhammer, High Elves) or ugly (Broken, Furbolg), they'll never receive it and Allied Races showed that big time.
Instead Blizzard will go for "something different" just for the sake of it and please no one with things like Kul Tiran and Mechagnomes.
Overall I feel sorry for them.
Sethrak were never built to be an allied race in the way Vulpera is. Gear, especially helmets, would be a hard fit on them, and lore wise Sethrak have far more interaction with the Horde anyway, even being present at the crowning of Talanji.
And one of the character customizations shown off at Blizzcon was Wildhammer tattoos for dwarves, so that claim is just dishonest.
As for Void Elves (and by extension High Elves), Blizzard have always been adamant that Blood Elves are the de facto High Elves of WoW, and alliance would not get an identical race with blue eyes. Void Elves was a way for Blizzard to compromise and give alliance Thalassian elves without them being a complete rip off of Blood Elves.
Besides, even though horde did receive Nightborne that both factions had been asking for, the actual implementation of the race was wholly disappointing and they look nothing like their NPC counterparts people had been asking for.
Going by straight eye ball and experience, not numbers whatsoever, I see nothing but elves and trolls (not literally obviously). Zanda trolls have been wanted for a long long time and they look really cool. Elves are elves, enough said.
But one thing is that I see more dwarves than you'd expect. The dwarves in WoW feel more Tolkien than the Battle of Five Army dwarves and WoW's dwarves are inspired by them lol, imo.