Hold out soldiers of Order!

In the Beta and early launch stages of Warhammer Online, the forces of destruction seem to have a huge advantage in terms of numbers. However, the folks at Mythic Entertainment don't expect it to stay that way.

Josh Drescher: There's something about the kind of person who likes to Beta test MMOs that draws them towards the badguys. All throughout Beta we saw a disproportionate popularity on the Destruction side. We know from previous games we've worked on, the good guys tend to be significantly more popular. Everyone wants to save the princess and have shiny armor. Even though we don't offer any princess saving in our game, we knew that the good guys were going to wind up generally more popular in the long term.

That is the trend that has been seen by other games centered around factional warfare, such as World of Warcraft. We'll see if it follows here as well.

For more information about the divide in faction population, please check here.