Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
I hope you like being the underdog!
What difference does that make on a PvE server?
Functionally none to the game itself as you can never be attacked by the enemy faction unless you deliberately flag yourself for PvP. (Except in enemy cities where you are automatically flagged for PvP, but the game will never require you to go those.)
It can make battlegrounds and suchlike very unbalanced and not much fun though, as even on PvE servers, there are voluntary PvP events.
Also, factions with low populations tend to have shite auction houses, so it can be hard to sell stuff, and to buy what you want/need.
On top of that, it can tend to feel like you're not really playing an MMO, as so many areas will be pretty much deserted.
EDIT - Blizzard are utter bastards with this, even when a server gets really unbalanced and one faction is pretty much knackered (as seems to be the case on Draenor), they'll just leave it as it is and hoover up the cash as people pay to transfer their characters elsewhere, when what they should really do is a free realm migration programme.
EDIT AGAIN - It might not be so bad on Draenor as it's a high pop server, I'm going to roll an Orc and just run him up to Orgrimmar to take a look, that'll tell me at a glance what the Horde pop is like.