WAR (Warhammer Online)

After looking at most available polls it is clear that Chaos will be the majority in WAR.  Apparently they are not only the majority in numbers, but they also have better teamwork and skill according to beta players.  After the NDA is lifted I think those who don't know what I'm talking about soon will.  My theory on this would be the fact that there are a ton of well organized guilds that seem to roll Chaos for whatever reason.  It's unfortunate for me because I'll play Order.  Seems like Chaos gets more mature, skilled MMO players and Order gets a lot of newbies.  This was seen in WoW as well.  I will enjoy being the underdog sometimes, but it will get old eventually.  What bothers me is that many guilds try saying that Chaos will be the underdog and that's why they choose them, when that is clearly not the case as of yet anyway. 

Anyone have any theories as why this is the case?  Or you think I'm completely wrong and Order will be more dominant eventually?

chaos is evil, chaos looks cool, and even back in the tabletop days chaos was overpowered (1+ armor saves ftl)

but there will be plenty of order, plenty of hardcore PvP leet order guilds and such.  there may be more chaos, but like in every game, there will always be a competent core of players in your faction.

Ever notice how veterans in war movies look gruffy, unshaved and just generally disorganised? They joke around and make a jolly good mess of things, but the moment shit hits the fan, they become a syncronised team of destruction. I think a bit of the same mentality applies to MMO players. New players to the fantasy genre are often drawn to the pictures of glory and beauty presented by humans, elves and dwarves. Older veterans however tend to be drawn to the team of ragtags that just seem like an outright mess, but when the time comes to fight, they work as a unit.

To sum it up: Those who havn't experienced being the superior force tend to try to bring it forth through looks, while those who know they are the superior force care more for the fun factor when they are not fighting.
Mind you this does obviously not count for everyone, but it does explain the general incline towards the green buggers and the other jolly memebers of the chaotic regime

yeah yeah we went through all this back when WoW started.

evil is cooler etc nightelves are sexy whatever.

there will be always more on one side then the other and it will be different on each server.

all thats important is how the game will keep the balance to not affect the experience of everyone on the smaller side.

dont get worried what side will get more cause you cant do anything about it anyway.

I always assumed it was more "I WANT TO BE EVIL!" mentality, as people in real life generally have to be good. And then there is the cool factor. Normally the goblins or orcs or dark elves or whatever look different and more interesting than Humans and dwarves, which is pretty standard. But like I said, that's just what I always assumed. The arguments above make a lot of sense.

Originally posted by Dreamstrider

Ever notice how veterans in war movies look gruffy, unshaved and just generally disorganised? They joke around and make a jolly good mess of things, but the moment shit hits the fan, they become a syncronised team of destruction. I think a bit of the same mentality applies to MMO players. New players to the fantasy genre are often drawn to the pictures of glory and beauty presented by humans, elves and dwarves. Older veterans however tend to be drawn to the team of ragtags that just seem like an outright mess, but when the time comes to fight, they work as a unit.

To sum it up: Those who havn't experienced being the superior force tend to try to bring it forth through looks, while those who know they are the superior force care more for the fun factor when they are not fighting.
Mind you this does obviously not count for everyone, but it does explain the general incline towards the green buggers and the other jolly memebers of the chaotic regime

This is a bit off topic, but I really dig this component of WAR, no matter what realm you play.  The devs have stressed the pride of the realm, meaning that though I may hate "so-and-so's" guts, and he hates mine, when it comes to defending the realm, we will proudly cover each others' backs.  That is so awesome.  To know that we can set aside personal grievances for something greater than ourselves is one of the noblest aspects of humanity.  And having it integrated into a video game is like having your cake and eating it too.

Originally posted by Stellos

After looking at most available polls it is clear that Chaos will be the majority in WAR.  Apparently they are not only the majority in numbers, but they also have better teamwork and skill according to beta players.  After the NDA is lifted I think those who don't know what I'm talking about soon will.  My theory on this would be the fact that there are a ton of well organized guilds that seem to roll Chaos for whatever reason.  It's unfortunate for me because I'll play Order.  Seems like Chaos gets more mature, skilled MMO players and Order gets a lot of newbies.  This was seen in WoW as well.  I will enjoy being the underdog sometimes, but it will get old eventually.  What bothers me is that many guilds try saying that Chaos will be the underdog and that's why they choose them, when that is clearly not the case as of yet anyway. 

Anyone have any theories as why this is the case?  Or you think I'm completely wrong and Order will be more dominant eventually?

First of all you are talking about Destruction not chaos, chaos is a destruction race. 

As is stands right now, Destruction has more players, Order has better (like 10 Xs better) RvR'rs.

   One thing can be said for sure, the Destruction side knows how to die..

    *Points lion at a Dark Elf and laughs heartily!*

   Honestly I haven't seen much of a imbalance at all. Although I need to wait tell NDA is over to spill more beans. One word of advice. Fear my Kitty!

1st off there is the standard player base for every faction.  then toss in the kids because chaos are badass (at my local store and almost every kid that picked up the WAR box said he would play Chaos).  Chaos will be very popular and (unfortunately) Empire does not appear to have such a strong following.  Mythic does have a system in place to balance it so if you like to play underdogs then play Empire