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sanjian wrote:
> Periodiciii@youeatpoopy.com wrote:
>
> What races look good on the Alliance side? Human and elf females. All guys
> are (by definition) ugly, so that really isn't a factor.
I have no idea how to respond to the assertion that male characters are
by definition too ugly to play.
> Then I'm proud to be one of the "relatively shallow minority." Playing an
> ugly character doesn't interest me. It doesn't draw me in. If it can't do
> that, then why am I bothering to make it my entertainment?
That you made that choice is fine, but it doesn't change the fact that
your criterion is a shallow one.
> > If someone were to suggest that in Diablo 2 the reason why
> > Necromancers were so unpopular was because they were the ugly class I
>
> Riiiight. Because there can't possibly be multiple reasons for things, or
> different reasons for different conditions. We must squish everything into
> one pre-concieved mold.
Riiiiight, because I'm the one that suggested that the perfect solution
to the Horde's population woes was a pretty race. Did you even read
what I was responding to?
>
> > people play Humans because in many people's minds its the "default"
> > race. A lot of people play Night Elves because they're elves.
>
> In EQ, you had alot of people playing alot of races, across the board.
> Sure, humans were the most common, but you could always find plenty of
> barbarians, wood elves, high elves, dark elves, even dwarves (always popular
> for clerics). In Lineage II, orcs are fairly popular because they decided
> to give every race decent designs. So, what's holding the hoarde back? Are
> WoW players somehow completely different than L2 or EQ players? Or is it
> something in the game, itself?
Okay, so you had people playing all the nice tolkienesque archetypes -
what does this have to do with the point I was making. You supported
what I said by pointing out that humans were (again) the most common,
as well as barbarians (totally not human),
woodelveshighelvesdarkelvesnoticingapattern? and even dwarves. So it
sounds like the majority were humans and elves, as my theory would
predict.
> > It isn't so much that they're pretty races, as they are comfortable.
> > Most people, particularly newer players, probably find it a lot easier
> > to grab a Tolkienesque stereotype then it is to "play a monster".
>
> Or most of us may just have no interest in playing a monster. It's our
> time, we'll spend it doing things we want.
None of the races, bar _maybe_ Undead could be concieved of as
monsters. The Tauren are probably the most noble race (in general
portrayal) in the game, not to mention the cutest.
Frankly, I prefer the Horde atmosphere, and I don't think they need
anything. The fact that we get the more unusual race picks and
correspondingly, the people who would play such characters, is I think
a good thing. Let the alliance keep their two billion night elf hunters
and human paladins - we don't want them, and I'm not sure the alliance
does either.
The Female troll is really not a bad 
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