Population stats PVP vs PVE

[Ughmahedhurtz]

This was an interesting blue comment I found, in a thread about how one realm claimed to be 7.6:1 horde:alliance:

The faction balance is almost a perfect 2:1, horde heavy, which is fairly normal for PvP realms. PvE tends to be alliance heavy at about 2:1, so it's flipped but definitely within an acceptable difference and comparison to other realms.

I would not have guessed those ratios were normal. :P

[Eteocles]

They lie...I played a ton on my rogue, Zeral, who was rolled and lvl'd to 60 on Gul'dan before transferring it to Mag with my ex's lock to lvl to 70. The server is and has been DEAD alliance-side for-fucking-ever. There's few people in IF during peak hours(which would be a freakin laggy nightmare on mag)
, Shatt wasn't much better, there was NOONE at ALL in hellfire peninsula when I attempted to lvl the rogue pre-transfer(probably back between may and august), noone capping either faction towers, noone in town, noone lvling.

The GM doesn't particularly specify gul'dan, just states specs're good...I say it's a flat-out lie from experience. :P

[boxer]

sounds like my old server, Malorne, which was 6:1 horde favored (i was alliance...)

[Jaws5]

Why would anyone want to play alliance?

[Jaws5]

I understand the totems looking better. But the trade off for the ugly chars , na can't see it

[roddo]

I played a while on Burning blade (pvp) alliance side and it was a hell of a lot worse than 2:1 horde to alliance ratio. It was rare to see alliance out leveling in outlands, while horde were everywhere. My main play has been on stormrage(pve), and its definitely alliance heavy. PvPers play horde or are masochists, most pve'rs seem to prefer alliance.

[Lynly]

You roll Alliance on PVP if you want to have the maximum opportunity to kill people, because they're everywhere. On Stormscale, my server, a 2:1 ratio is about right. I have plenty of Horde to kill and enough Alliance members to make it fun.

[boxer]

well i rolled alliance because my RL friends did, and they probably did cause they were all 14-year-old retards at the time.

[kadaan]

Why does horde always accuse alliance of being 14yo kids, and vice versa? I'm sure the demographics of both factions are about equal :P.

Personally, I rolled Alliance because almost none of the females in my guild wanted to play Horde. A few were willing to roll as undead, but the general aesthetics didn't appeal to them. We have a strict 18+ requirement, and the majority of our members are late 20's and older. That post saying that PvP servers tend to have more dense horde population makes sense to me, I think it's about what type of game you prefer and not age. I love farming while watching a movie, relaxing gathering herbs, etc. I can't stand PvP servers.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Why does horde always accuse alliance of being 14yo kids, and vice versa? I'm sure the demographics of both factions are about equal :P.

Oh, that's just how things are. I'd bet most stereotypes about WoW demographics are probably pretty close, though I know there's no empirical data to support that.

Of course, some of us just say it straight without any fluff like demographics: alliance just sucks.