If you are playing Horde now for raids, will you make a new Alliance toon?

[Sentenzà-illidan]

@Syncretic-norgannon

Not even close.

Not even close?

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/49862-wow-demographics-for-class-race-and-faction-infographic/

So what you mean that 70% was not a large enough number to encompass just how many Blood Elves there were, haha.

[Syncretic-norgannon]

@Sentenzà-illidan

Not even close?

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/49862-wow-demographics-for-class-race-and-faction-infographic/

So what you mean that 70% was not a large enough number to encompass just how many Blood Elves there were, haha.

I said “representative” data - as in data taken from an API that captured the majority of the actual character base, not a sample of 300K characters taken other players running survey mods.

[Sentenzà-illidan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)

Just because you don’t understand how statistics works mechanically doesn’t mean that random sampling is not valid. You’re just wrong.

[Caelin-boulderfist (Caelin)]

It will probably work out fine for people who do PUG mythic+ content but it will be a little more difficult for raiders. Hell not being able to trade simple things like flasks, food or other consumables with cross realm players of the same faction is annoying enough. I can’t wait to see what restrictions will be in place for cross faction.

[Peexee-area-52]

@Cäpslöck-proudmoore

@Peexee-area-52

Not sure why normal LFG (for dungeons while leveling) wasn’t made cross faction though.

because the explicitly wanted the system to be opt in at launch. you would know that if you actually read the post

huh? How does opt in have anything to do with 10-59 dungeons? 2 vastly different points.
Yes, and I did read the post. This is how I know it. Which you CLEARLY did not read.

So, take a second. Read the my original post again. Read bluepost again. And come back.

Love the irony of this situation.

[Crazyirish-sargeras]

Yeah cause having to ride elevators was so easy for alliance back in the day.

[Syncretic-norgannon]

@Sentenzà-illidan

Just because you don’t understand how statistics works mechanically doesn’t mean that random sampling is not valid. You’re just wrong

I understand statistics well enough to employ statistical analyses in my employment, and to know that what Warcraft Realms provides is not a formal sample. Its sample is a small, purely random part of a whole.

As the actual author of these infographics correctly states, his data is a “random subsection of the player population.”

Actual data for the top 5 races at max level from 2020.

Alliance	Percent	Horde	Percent
Human	28.5	Blood Elf	36.7
Night Elf	26.9	Orc	14.4
Draenei	8.8	Troll	10.3
Void Elf	7.5	Tauren	9.8
Dwarf	6.3	Undead	9.7
	78.0		80.9

Yes, including lower-level characters changed the results, but only marginally. No, it is not remotely possible for BE to have risen from their norm of somwhere in the low-to-mid 30% range to 70% in two years.

[Lillyanñ-wyrmrest-accord]

@Lillyanñ-wyrmrest-accord

First good news I’ve seen in a while. I may roll an alliance character in the near future because of this.

Just posting my reply from Blizzards thread.

[Cäpslöck-proudmoore]

You said you weren’t sure why they didn’t include something, so I gave you the reason. No random group finder groups will be cross faction to keep the opt in nature of the system.

[Kneeshooter-amanthul (Kneeshooter)]

@Ixenn-area-52

There’s still major issues though. For example Alliance have 0 presence on my server. And I don’t really want to wipe my gold for some characters.

Unless you are on a RP server, that shouldn’t matter, as you can join premade groups across the region. So if you, say, made an Alliance toon there you could do group content anywhere. And you could always start a toon on a decently high pop Alliance server and build up your gold and stuff in the months that it will take to get to the patch; not like there’s a huge amount of stuff to do right now, until 9.2 launches. Nowadays its fairly easy to make gold, even from scratch.