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09-04-2009, 01:25 PM
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I've been thinking about this ever since the faction changes went live (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/faction-change-service-now-available/): obviously, Blizzard will never actually release the numbers on how many server transfers or faction changes they do, just because they are notoriously guarded about the information they release, not least because riots are pretty easy to incite on the forums (imagine the reaction if Blizzard officially said that Alliance was the more popular faction). But I wonder nevertheless: how many players have transferred their characters over from one faction to another already? And lots of people seem to think that the vast majority of transfers are Alliance to Horde (not to mention I've heard many anecdotal stories of people flooding back to the Horde), but is that true?
Obviously, we don't have access to all of Blizzard's audience, and our polls are definitely much less scientific than the data Blizzard gets to look at (you better believe they're tracking transfers and faction and race choices with a close eye, just as they're tracking server populations 24/7 (http://www.wow.com/2007/10/24/tracking-realm-population-and-how-blizzard-does-it/)), but just for the heck of it, we'll ask. After the break, we've got a few polls designed to give us a very general look at how transfers are playing out so far. There's a lot of anecdotal experiences flying around since transfers went live, but I'd like to know, a little more objectively, just how things are panning out.Continue reading Survey: Figuring out the faction transfer numbers (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/04/survey-figuring-out-the-faction-transfer-numbers/)
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I've been thinking about this ever since the faction changes went live (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/02/faction-change-service-now-available/): obviously, Blizzard will never actually release the numbers on how many server transfers or faction changes they do, just because they are notoriously guarded about the information they release, not least because riots are pretty easy to incite on the forums (imagine the reaction if Blizzard officially said that Alliance was the more popular faction). But I wonder nevertheless: how many players have transferred their characters over from one faction to another already? And lots of people seem to think that the vast majority of transfers are Alliance to Horde (not to mention I've heard many anecdotal stories of people flooding back to the Horde), but is that true?
Obviously, we don't have access to all of Blizzard's audience, and our polls are definitely much less scientific than the data Blizzard gets to look at (you better believe they're tracking transfers and faction and race choices with a close eye, just as they're tracking server populations 24/7 (http://www.wow.com/2007/10/24/tracking-realm-population-and-how-blizzard-does-it/)), but just for the heck of it, we'll ask. After the break, we've got a few polls designed to give us a very general look at how transfers are playing out so far. There's a lot of anecdotal experiences flying around since transfers went live, but I'd like to know, a little more objectively, just how things are panning out.Continue reading Survey: Figuring out the faction transfer numbers (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/04/survey-figuring-out-the-faction-transfer-numbers/)
Filed under: Horde (http://www.wow.com/category/horde/), Alliance (http://www.wow.com/category/alliance/), Polls (http://www.wow.com/category/polls/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Realm Status (http://www.wow.com/category/realm-status/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/), Factions (http://www.wow.com/category/factions/), Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/category/cataclysm/)
Survey: Figuring out the faction transfer numbers (http://www.wow.com/2009/09/04/survey-figuring-out-the-faction-transfer-numbers/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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