Blizzard Says Trial Characters Didn't Change the 55/45 Split
Kaivax says trial characters had no impact on the 55/45 faction balance, which counts active logged-in players across all levels.
Blizzard looked into whether trial accounts were throwing off the faction balance, and says they weren't.
A player had brought up trial accounts as something that might be skewing the Alliance/Horde split. Here's what Blizzard said: "We did significant investigation into that, and there is no evidence that trial characters had any impact at all."
So that 55/45 isn't from trial accounts. Blizzard also said what the ratio counts: "When we say 55/45, we're looking at the active logged-in population across all levels over a specific period of time."
That's who was logged in, every level, over that stretch of time. Not max level only, and not characters nobody's playing.
