The fatal flaw of Star Wars TOR

[Contun]

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Alliance is kinda more evil if you look at the lore. However, how large a percentage of WoW players do you think care about the lore? I'm gonna take a wild guess and go with VERY LOW. Also, you need to search the lore to find Alliance doing evil stuff, while the Forsaken and Blood Elves are doing wierd shit all over the place.

Add to this the common division of "Humans, Elves and Dwarves" = "Good" VS "Orcs, Trolls and Undead" = "Evil"

So I'm going to wager that in the mind of the average WoW player, Alliance are the good guys and the Horde are the bad guys, hence my comment. Alliance outnumbers the Horde on almost every server, sometimes as much as 2:1.

However, Warhammer Online has the bad guys in numerical superiority (or at least it had back when I played), though that's mostly due to the fact that the good guys get this guy [http://news.filefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/smas04.jpg] and this guy [http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/images/careers/KOBS_04.jpg] while the bad guys get to play as this [http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/media/images/newsletters/warhammer/2007/NL-Chosen001.jpg] and this [http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/images/conceptArt/ConArt0807_39.jpg].

TOR will have the same split as WoW most likely, but not in a good way. It'll be 2:1 in favour of the Republic, only they'll have nothing but Jedi, while the Sith will be spread more evenly across the 4 classes (the 2 non-force Sith classes look a lot better than the Republic ones). Also, Sith will likely obliterate the Republic in any PvP situation. Just like WoW...

I disagree with some of your points there....

When word got out that Tauren could be Paladins in Cataclysm people immediately said that Blizzard was destroying the lore. Same with Worgen Druids and Goblin Shamans.

As for the Alliance to Horde ratio, each server is different. Alliance play more on PVE and RP servers while Horde dwell more in PVP and RP-PVP servers; though even then it's still fairly even.
(http://www.warcraftrealms.com/censu...nid=-1&minlevel=20&maxlevel=80&servertypeid=4)

As for the whole 'Horde are evil' mindset I'd say it's all about perspective. I'd even say it's stereotypical to see the big, monster-like races to be considered evil.


I'd say TOR factions will be fairly even as well.

 

[trying to hide my account]

im going to have a sith,jedi,bounty Hunter and a smuggler or trouper

 

[William Ossiss]

im rolling a sith inquisitor and jedi knight. i <3 my some force lightning, and i like force jump. ill get to all the other characters eventually...

 

[Buizel91]

Let's face it, everyone is going to be Sith. We can either embrace this fact or fight a losing battle.

I'm gonna play as a Jedi Consular.

Sorry, your hypothesis is false, seeing as I am part of everyone, and I'm not going Sith.

Guardian for me...why? i like the colour blue, and I'm always a Guardian on Kotor

I'll probably make a Trooper also, i hate just having one class for ages.

so that makes 2 of "everyone" that are going to be good. =)

 

[Cherry Cola]

You know, much as it might seem so, not everyone likes to play as the bad guy. It's actually almost an equal split.

I don't think we'll have too much to worry about.

I must pre-order the game so I can be Han Solo first!

 

[Vilcus]

If I end up getting it, I'm going 100% Jedi. Not because I think they're the coolest, but because being one gives you permission to kill people and justify it by saying "I'm a Jedi, so what I did was for the good of us all." - said while standing over a family of innocent farmers.

 

[Mister Awesome]

i'm always the good guy, always!

 

[SeriousSquirrel]

Looking at a bounty hunter here, maybe a Sith but it's unlikely.