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Originally Posted by Solaire
Yeah, I understand your point, I was just trying to say I don't think you should be worried. 
Since WoW is the only real MMO I have experience with, I'll just go with that... Taking your example, "Would they rather be a glowing, angelic person in a dress who heals people or a feral-looking, beast-like person in a dress who heals people?" and looking at the factions in WoW, there were always a ton of undead (usually female) priests, along with trolls. Alliance side, it was a good amount of dwarves with a decent amount of humans. People who are going to play healer classes are going to play both sides, because in normal populations there are the folks who, not knowing much about the game, will want to be rugged and heal people, or want to be "pure" and heal people. Same for the tanks, the folks who want to look like they can take a beating, along with the shining white knights, and ditto for dpsers; the sly and scary looking weapon carriers and nukers, to the glossy infantry and spellcasters.
In the beginning there might be some discrepancy toward who plays what, since it'll depend largely on how well NCSoft can promote the hype for the game, but if they do really well with marketing, or the game is awesome like we all hope and word of mouth promotes the game virally, then after a month there'll be the normal population demographics. |
But WoW's 10 races each have a select few classes that make sense when compared to the ideals and lore of each race. When comparing an entire faction to another, the characteristics of each side's races balance out compared to the other so that all the roles are filled. Besides, a lot of WoW's balance has to do with the racials. From what I've seen, DP isn't a big enough factor to change the decision to roll a certain race.
I don't really know if people really will respond the way I expected. I know, however, that I would not feel as empowered to roll a chanter if I was to go Asmodian. I think I would prefer playing a Gladiator or Ranger instead. Perhaps it is just personal preference, but I still think that if this affects me, there's a chance that other people have this kind of bias as well.