DISQUS

JDH · 1 year ago

That's good stuff. I'm a male and I play "For the Horde!" as a Blood Elf Paladin. Great stuff!

Whipray · 1 year ago

Very interesting stuff to read and think about. Though I'm curious as to what races are specifically preferred as well as classes with gender as well.

Shay · 1 year ago

I felt almost like a statistic :P I play a Blood Elf hunter, but my retired first toon was a Human Pally. Trust me, us women (at least on my realms) get a lot of unwanted attention if we play a manly class like pally or warrior. lol

Siobhann · 1 year ago

The horde shaman bias may be because shamans were horde-only and paladins were alliance-only until Burning Crusade. Alliance shamans can only be played by Draeni, a non-human race with blue skin and hooves. Horde paladins are blood elves, one of the prototypical elven races that you state are popular in MMOs so they may have caught up to their alliance counterparts more easily.

Satanisti · 1 year ago

interesting, even though i absolutely hate alliance i suppose it is good that there are more of them than horde, more kills for us!!!

Ticluna · 1 year ago

Very interesting statistics however i would be interested to know how many unique accounts this breaks down to, as that would dictate how many players of each faction would be on at a given time. In my guild we have a number of "altaholics" which would skew these numbers.

Morvelaira · 1 year ago

It would be nice to see some raw numbers behind your graphs. For example, you said that the 11% of women playing Alliance Druids about equals the five percent of men doing the same. What are those numbers, I wonder?

Rebekka · 1 year ago

Very intresting to read! That females play night elf druid didn't surprise me at all - I'm one of them. Same thing for horde priest. Looks like I've chosen two class/faction combinations were we girls are in miniority, though. Horde shaman and horde warrior (come on, everyone wants to play a Forsaken warrior?...Right?)

Ghostwheel · 1 year ago

As a 30-something woman who plays a female orc shaman, I'm apparently the minority among the minority!

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Tersch · 1 year ago

Very interesting reading and your effort is appreciated.
Being an altoholic myself I'd be very interested to see the stats behind "First Choice" characters. In other words, the first character that was made by the account. I think that would lead to more accurate assumptions regarding female/male character selections, though I'm not sure it is possible.

Baenhoof · 1 year ago

I'm a woman, and I play a male tauren prot warrior primarily, and female undead priest secondarily.
I'm a little bit surprised at the number of female Alliance druids though xD
This is a great article, thanks :3
GamerDNA should do a followup article on the preference of RL men and women to choose ingame male or female gender- might be interesting :3

Cyress · 1 year ago

Ive played both alli and horde, personaly i evjoy my Alli human Warrior, Fantastic artical thx for the time you spent doing it ;}

Ajarat · 1 year ago

<----Female Horde warrior for 3+ years now. XD

Luvia · 1 year ago

I guess I fit into the statistics perfectly. :)

Female IRL - main characters are Druid, Priest, and Hunter.

Qaos · 1 year ago

I'd like to see the demographic breakdown between Horde/Alliance according to age, actually. I have my own suspicions about the prevalence of younger gamers choosing Alliance, and would like to see the chart.

For the record - I'd rather not play WoW than play Alliance. o.O

Bree J. · 1 year ago

When I first started play, about a year and a half ago, I instinctively ran against the grain by leveling two of the most unpopular choices for ladies, Horde side -- shaman and warrior. In fact, I chose my faction based on a similar desire to rebel. :) I'd wager personality type creates those outliers . . . some of us love to do the opposite of what's expected of us.

Silver · 10 months ago

I'm a bit surprised about this, as I am female and love my dwarf paladin more than any other character I've created. My second favorite is a fury warrior (admittedly alliance).

Telch · 4 months ago

would love to see the "current" characters - ie not armory where some toons have been sitting not logged on for years. Is there someway to view "logged on" data for periods. At the moment, every second player I see is a paladin but likely they have hunters/druids etc sitting in armory but not used for years. Would be good for Blizz to check this data - its probably a good measure of OP characters lol

UDMAGE · 2 months ago

In close to 5 years playing wow now, and being a 40 year old male, I've played most races and classes to end game or near end game.. my current main is however a UD Mage... and Tauren DK.. My observation has been that there are more cordial, mature and competent players in Horde than Alliance as a rule. But as with any rule, there are exceptions.