I see slightly more alliance than horde roaming about and i'm one of those horde servers you're on about ..
I see slightly more alliance than horde roaming about and i'm one of those horde servers you're on about ..
They will allow cross faction play.
Ion talked about it in one launch interview and basically said they like the factions but they will find a way to let you play with friends (in the opposite faction).
Imo, they can easily make a "friendly mode" the same way they make a war mode. The way it read, they have something in the works he can't talk about yet.
I don't remember running with one Alliance leader (Jaina) to save another (Anduin) as a Horde character in any expansion before SL. There's nothing left of Horde anyway, because Blizz are killing more and more Horde leaders. So yeah, they're not removing "factions", they only remove one.
dude, auchindoun has always been dead, it was a backwater server to get pvp titles on, I was there on one of my alts to hunt down some glad dodgers back in wrath, and it was already dead back then. you obviously have no idea what you are talking about lol.
Also if u want faction balance, u want something that speaks to the casuals who have never done a +15 or set foot inside a raid outside of LFR, since that is 90%+ of the player base.
the entire faction balance issue is fairly deep and lengthy but you just simply understand nothing about it. do some reasearch first maybe?
I would welcome cross faction play. The whole aestetic difference with horde being savage and allianve being polite humanoids doesn't exist any more especially since allied races.
This whole artificial barrier called faction war between Horde and Alliance doesn't really fancy many people any more. When did some people on your server decided to raid the enemy capital city? It doesn't happen anymore.
According to data pulled directly from the Blizzard Battle.net API of all active (as in, played within the last 30 days of data collection) characters, as of December of last year, is as follows:
For US Realms:
50.6% Alliance
49.4% Horde
For EU Realms:
49.9% Alliance
50.1% Horde
Literally the faction populations according to this data couldn't be closer to parity. This is effectively no better than a rounding error statistically speaking and all that your anecdotal evidence shows is just that the Alliance are just spread more thinly across more servers than the Horde are.
[Source: Statista]
No, it just means buff core alliance racials and make alliance on equal footing for raiding. This heavy faction imbalance started after MoP when they began nerfing alliance racials like EMFH. Give alliance races comparative performance racials or at the very least stop designing encounters that give Horde races significant advantage. (Looking at you Zul from Uldir). Most alliance racials are defensive instead offensive, and it fucks alliance when it comes to raiding.
according to https://www.wowprogress.com/
37 out of 200 top guilds it's from ally
163 out of 200 top guilds it's from horde
18.5% its ally
81.5% its horde
as we can see its different from this:
"For US Realms:
50.6% Alliance
49.4% Horde"
or from this:
"For EU Realms:
49.9% Alliance
50.1% Horde"
I think a 50-60 chart would be much more accurate of the current population trends. As a personal anecdote back when realmpop was up roughly a year ago I remember the overall 1-120 charts showing that overall, the populations are fairly balanced, but that's because a lot of people play on both factions and level alts. The horde population percentage would slowly increase as you scaled up to max level. You also can't argue with the fact that wowprogress is overwhelmingly horde at this point.
Statistically speaking island expeditions were 9001% more popular than raids and dungeons, so blizzard should just scrap raids and dungeons and focus on island expeditions?
The thing is, in reality, statistics in this case doesn't mean shit. At least not character statistics.
Want some more stats?
hall of fame Ny'alotha, the Waking City:
100 ally: 04/14/2020 8:20 PM CEST
100 horde: 03/15/2020 11:23 PM CET
month difference
EP:
100 ally: 10/16/2019 6:40 AM CEST
100 horde: 09/05/2019 5:43 PM CEST
month and 1/3
COS:
ally didnt even finish, last place was 42 - 07/09/2019 9:40 PM CEST
100 horde: 06/16/2019 4:24 AM CEST
bit less than month difference but...
BOD:
100 Ally: 04/10/2019 4:37 PM CEST
100 horde: 03/13/2019 2:14 PM CET
another month (warning, retarded date format)
M+ leaderboards dominated by horde. Out of 200 places on all run leaderboards in season 4, only 23 (11.5%) are ally.
Season 3: 17% of top 100.
Season 2: 9% of top 100
Season 1: 5% of top 100
(those are way too low amount to actually calculate statistics but you get the idea).
Last edited by kaminaris; 2020-12-01 at 07:55 AM.
competitive doesnt work,some will always be better than other,and even the tiniest % matter for world firsts,and we all know that what the top guys do,the scrubs follow their example even if it is irelevant to the rest of us
they could i guess just make the racials be copies,like human and orc has the same one etc
but even if they somehow magicaly make it 100% balanced it wont matter....people wont just switch to aliance all of a sudden because the comunity has already been well established,no1 is gonna uproot themselves and taking a risk because they have a female gnome fetish....
nope...the only true foolproof way to fix this is cross faction play,that way it will be irelevant if 99% are one faction (link capital ah also ofc so the economy is also fixed)
Um how about no? Cross-Faction play is not a solution to the problem, it's a complete bandaid fix that overlooks the balancing issues with the game. How bullshit is it that horde players bitch and moan about one single alliance racial for years, and then once blizzard caves and ruins alliance racials it's suddenly not okay to do balancing? Fuck that, actually fix the game.
those stats sadly mean nothing when we look at the results,aliance cant even finish hall of fame,so i have no clue what all those aliance players are doing...pet battles??transmog??erotic rp??? because i can sure as hell tell you they are NOT mythic raiding or doing any form of semi high end content...
not only that but my guild that has been aliance until mid bfa has seen an imense difference when going horde,far more recruitments interested in raiding,and the quality spike among them has also been staggering
Cool. You've established that the easy answer is the correct answer.
Now go ahead and account for the endless number of people who don't post on forums, give less than zero fucks about M+ or Mythic raid progression and would instantly quit the game if Blizzard decided to allow cross-faction play.