Originally posted by Yamota

Are the races any different? Beside from pure cosmetical point of view?

 There are racial elites but they can't be used in structured PVP.

Each race would also have completely different personal storylines.

That's all I can think of.

I usually play the monster type like a char but I think I am going to go with the angry plant necromancer!

Originally posted by Bunks

this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

I find this highly acceptible. This certainly indicates that there will be plenty of beings to handle the menial labor we Asura require of them.

Good help is so hard to find.

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Originally posted by Volkon

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Originally posted by Bunks
this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

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I find this highly acceptible. This certainly indicates that there will be plenty of beings to handle the menial labor we Asura require of them.
 
Good help is so hard to find.

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Originally posted by EvilGeek

 

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Originally posted by Volkon

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Originally posted by Bunks
this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

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I find this highly acceptible. This certainly indicates that there will be plenty of beings to handle the menial labor we Asura require of them.
 
Good help is so hard to find.

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And plenty of test subject fodder too, we best keep that to ourselves lest we get a repeat of the sylvari incident.

 

Indeed. An honest mistake though. Sentient turnips indeed!

Originally posted by ariboersma

ok I cant figure out how to post it but the CURRENT as of right now, without old data is this break down of races

 

Asura 16.1%

Charr 15.4%

Human 31.4%

Norn 16.8%

Sylvari 20.3%

http://gw2census.com

if you want to do your own search by w/e and add your character(s)

quoting my own post because the graph isnt accurate as of last night. I think that was the graph from when the census site just came out.

Originally posted by Bunks

this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

Warhammer polls before launch had it almost 50-50 for factions. SWTOR had Empire and Republic almost even split and both pre-launch numbers were way off. Fan base and live numbers dont seem to balance out at all. 

Originally posted by Nanfoodle

Originally posted by Bunks

this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

Warhammer polls before launch had it almost 50-50 for factions. SWTOR had Empire and Republic almost even split and both pre-launch numbers were way off. Fan base and live numbers dont seem to balance out at all. 

That's weird because I was in Warhammer's closed beta for a Looooongggg time and we all knew destruction would be over populated weeks ahead of time.

Coming from the first month of Swtor's and their open beta it was super obvious that Empire was going to be overpopulated.

It doesn't seem like rocket science. Unless the bad team has horrible armor the bad side is going to be overpopulated.

GW2 doesn't have a bad side though. That graph looks pretty accurate to me.

I'm going to play a female Sylvari Elementalist personally

Originally posted by Nanfoodle

Originally posted by Bunks

this was based on 8820 people polled so far on Guru

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/forum/gw2census-com-character-pie-charts-t21267.html

Warhammer polls before launch had it almost 50-50 for factions. SWTOR had Empire and Republic almost even split and both pre-launch numbers were way off. Fan base and live numbers dont seem to balance out at all. 

 So much of it depends on factors that you don't find out until after the game is released though...

For example, in SWTOR, I think players "figured out" that the Empire storylines were by and large more interesting than the Republic ones, so they all flocked to Empire.

If people find out that the racial ability of the Norn in GW2 is awesome, or that the starting area of the Asura is amazing, then they may flock to those races as well.  So it's hard to predict where people will go before they have a chance to play the game.

Most players tend to pick human or human resembling races.

In PVP most pick badass looking characters. But still tend to go for humanoids.

And since Charr are catlike , i presume Norn fits both criteria above the best

uggg stop quoting the faulty pie chart!

I will NEVER play Charr, I don't want to be a hairy animal. O.o All of my characters will be Sylvari. Note: I'm a female player.

Originally posted by Fancy

I will NEVER play Charr, I don't want to be a hairy animal. O.o All of my characters will be Sylvari. Note: I'm a female player.

I hope this is a troll, if not stop making the rest of us female players look bad >.< Hairy animal... seriously?!?!? Pretty sure cat ppl usually look good. Dislike them because its not a nice looking race.. not because its an animal type race.

I'm not a troll, just posting my honest opinion, sorry if I offended you with it. I don't like animal looking characters, that's all. Sorry for my word usage, English is not my native language.

Originally posted by ariboersma

Originally posted by Fancy

I will NEVER play Charr, I don't want to be a hairy animal. O.o All of my characters will be Sylvari. Note: I'm a female player.

I hope this is a troll, if not stop making the rest of us female players look bad >.< Hairy animal... seriously?!?!? Pretty sure cat ppl usually look good. Dislike them because its not a nice looking race.. not because its an animal type race.

A friend of mine would also never roll a Charr, but then she hates them for the searing of Ascalon. She gets really aggressive when fighting Charr in GW1. The fact that they are furry doesn't matter to her. Actually, she probably would like to be able smell the burning hair (when putting them on fire with her elementalist) for added realism.

Originally posted by Fancy

I'm not a troll, just posting my honest opinion, sorry if I offended you with it. I don't like animal looking characters, that's all. Sorry for my word usage, English is not my native language.

Bah, I don't personally find anything offensive. There's enough variety amongst the races to appeal to most everyone I'm sure.

Originally posted by Fancy

I'm not a troll, just posting my honest opinion, sorry if I offended you with it. I don't like animal looking characters, that's all. Sorry for my word usage, English is not my native language.

i'm with you, won't play a char no matter what. Just not my cup of tea. Probably won't touch a boukah boy either.

Originally posted by Warjin

 

Any bets?

I for one will be playing a Human, but as trends dictate Charr is the (AkA) Bad-Ass.

Side Question, the 3 Orders that you can join in this game will they be picked apone character creation or later on, also will those 3 factions will be at war with each other or can anyone attack anyone no matter the faction? The reason I ask is I am trying to predict what Order will be the Horde/Sith faction because I don't want to be apart of that, I enjoy the underdog.

 

Well first off there are no factions.  All races on the SAME server are friendly to each other.

Secondly the WvW is pitting servers vs servers.

thirdly I would take any bets but I WILL go out on a limb and state that Sylvari will be the highest populated race followed closely by Humans.  I Char as a middle of the road type of race as alot of people have no intentions of playing one.  I know I dont because for one I hate big races and secondly I dislike non-human'ish races.  My friend is planning on playing a Char but me and a couple other in my groups are planing on playing Norn or Human.

Actually if you follow the forums on GW2Guru, which has a far larger portion of the game's community, most people are split between Sylvari and Human. Charr does have a pretty good amount of potential players, though. I don't think it's that they're animals that keeps them from being the most popular race, I think it's that they're so brusque. If this was an Open PvP game, they'd be the race all the gankers choose, but that's not the mentality of the majority of gamers.

Oddly, I'm finding Norn are the least popular. If I had to guess, it's more like Human > Sylvari > Charr > Asura > Norn right now.

Yet another example of peoples' tendency to translate their own opinion or perspective as that of the majority.