Draeni, Red Headed Step Children of WoW?

Posted by Stropp on January 12, 2007

Oops! Since writing this post, I’ve been told that I mispelled Draeni in my search. It should have been spelt Draenei and gets 710,000 Google hits, for a much more respectable ratio of 1.79:1. Thanks to Eliah Hecht of WoW Insider for putting me straight. I’ll leave the original post below to preserve the record.

I mentioned in I’m Too Ugly for this Blood Elf that I’ve been getting a surge in traffic from a Wikipedia article. I’ve also seen a lot of search strings in my blog and awstats statistics for Blood Elves, Blood Elf, and other variations on the spelling. But I noticed my stats didn’t seem to show any search strings for the Draeni.

So I typed ‘Draeni’ into Google and did a search. The search result turned up 863 English pages. Conversely, a search on ‘Blood Elf’ returned 1,270,000 English pages. This works out to 1471 pages on Blood Elves, for each page on the Draeni. That’s a pretty low ratio, suprisingly low in fact. With the popularity and controversy that has surrounded the Blood Elves, I would expect that a search would get more pages, but not nearly 1500 times more.

If noone is writing about the Draeni, it makes me wonder if the Draeni will be a popular class in World of Warcraft.

Popularity: 25%