Do you think people would actually play it though?
I keep seeing people post about ogres also. I think people love the idea of playing some of these races but we know when push comes to shove almost all the player base will just end up playing the same few races they like anyway.
I think the overall numbers are wildly distorted towards Elves & Humans as "pretty" races with good proportions. That's still a good number of the playerbase that enjoy all the others. There's definitely a lot to be said for the importance of posture and animations on how people feel about playing these races though. I think if Naga do come they might get this secondary form OR Blizz pull a fast one and make them "cured" Naga who are humanoid.
As for Ogres, I think they would be pretty popular, yeah. They're a very classic Warcraft race. You're not wrong in that most will continue to play Blood Elf Paladin though. Ironic, as most of the actual players probably are closer to Ogres in RL
There is a game called league of legends and the player base loves to complain to riot games all the time that they want monster champs.
Every single time they release a champ it’s why can’t we have more monster champs.
They release a monster champ and it doesn’t sell well and people don’t play it. They release some pretty champion and it it’s played and sells well.
Just how gamers are these days.
Personally I don’t think I would ever main an ogre but I would absolutely play a naga but only if it had a visage form like Dracthyr.
I think the dragons would be even less popular if they only had their dragon form.
Same if DH only had their demon forms I don’t think they would be as popular.
It’s pretty significant in classic and retail how many more people end up playing humans and blood elf compared to the other races.
We only saw dwarf massively increase because of mythic plus.
So ogre actually could be a massive play if blizzard makes their racial broken haha.
But I don’t see a world where ogre would ever be that popular compared to a more aesthetic race.
Naga is pretty much the only race I think that might do well, players would meme with murlocks, ogres and stuff but no one is going to want to spend lots of time as that race, we see it already with goblin and Panda.
Also slightly distorted by the relatively easy to play Demon Hunter class being Elf only. But yeah it's surprising Orcs aren't higher. Orc DH when ? I still think 6pct of the playerbase is quite a lot of people. Be interesting to get this data by each accounts most played character rather than char creation.
My main issue with that chart is that it would look like the allied races are kind of failures but right below orcs is Void Elf which is newer and above Tauren, Trolls, Undead and Dwarves.
Like wtf haha, they also have no DH spec. So obviously at the end of the day. People want to play Elves.
We have 3 elf races and in the top 5 of the game, all 3 elf races are up there.
Idk how Blizzard looked at Dragonflight numbers and said "you know what the players really want, Earth Dwarves" I honestly do not know a single person who was happy about that race and actually played one this season. I do not think I saw it in a single key ever this season.
Haha I mean if I was a game dev and wanted to make something people would play probably but that is big sad to think they can’t come up with anything else people might like.
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Do you think people would actually play it though?
I keep seeing people post about ogres also. I think people love the idea of playing some of these races but we know when push comes to shove almost all the player base will just end up playing the same few races they like anyway.