Blame Squeenix for why we all play as Miqo'te

[Priya]

Honestly, I'd probably play a Miqote... if they looked like cats. I can't get on board with the regular-human-wearing-ears-and-tail look that they are, though; they don't even have fur or a cat-like nose (at least Mithra had that). Au Ra aren't much better. They still look too human, but the scaly skin helps. I'll probably try them out at least.

[Noshpan]

I have a male Miqo'te. I play him because I like how he looks (maybe not how they have his digits curl up as if claws, or the way he runs). I don't care if there are a bajillion cat folks. At least I'm not yet another scantily-clad female Miqo'te or Hyur.

[kyuven]

Honestly, I'd probably play a Miqote... if they looked like cats. I can't get on board with the regular-human-wearing-ears-and-tail look that they are, though; they don't even have fur or a cat-like nose (at least Mithra had that). Au Ra aren't much better. They still look too human, but the scaly skin helps. I'll probably try them out at least.

The furry look isn't overly popular in Japanese MMOs. Cute girls/boys with cat ears are. Thus, we get these miqo'te.
And as someone who doesn't care for the furry aesthetic, i'm cool with that.

[Eye_Gore]

At least I'm not yet another scantily-clad female Miqo'te or Hyur.

If you got it, flaunt it. It just goes with the genre. If I looked as good as my character I would too.

[Elmeron]

I play a Lalafell... So do most of my friends, now that I think about it. Poor Miqo'te, so desperate to be popular *pats.* You'll be okay! In all seriousness, I love the male Miqo'te, but a lot of the time the females look super creepy to me... Something about their faces... Kinda noticed the same thing with female Lalafells too.

Not that I can talk, I made my male Lalafell so pink and fabulous that I often get mistaken for a female Lalafell to the point that I just stopped correcting people in dungeons since I won't see them again anyways. *Shrug.*

[kyuven]

At least I'm not yet another scantily-clad female Miqo'te or Hyur.

Oddly enough a lot of the RL women I know that play miqo'te dress more stripperiffic than i do.
To put it another way, one of these two female characters is played by a man, the other by a straight woman:

And she wears that outfit to EVERYTHING.

[MidnightS]

I'd totally still be a hyur if it wasn't for that "dainty" running animation.

Will probably switch to Au'ra in HW.

[Noshpan]

If you got it, flaunt it. It just goes with the genre. If I looked as good as my character I would too.

If I looked as good as my other female characters, even my female Roe, I still wouldn't flaunt it.

[Moqi]

It seems to me that Squeenix wanted everyone to pick Miqo'te. Point the finger at them not us.

They're just catering to the jailbait/furry demographic. Says nothing about them except they want this game to sell lol. It does say a lot about the userbase though, especially since Au Ra cater to that same players. I mean, they're basically the same thing, they just have different ears.

Also:

In the real world - Men in western society are desperate not to be mistaken for a pedophile so lalafel is out of the question.

this is only a problem if you sexualize children. Ask yourself a couple of questions :/

[Wilhem]

I tried everything from Hyur to Lala and I found that I didn't like the movement animation of most species. Only Miq'ote animations seemed fine to me to this I add the fact that the only time I manage to make a good looking non Miq'ote character it was a female Highlander but the voice pool to choose from for a female Highlander weren't to my taste so I went Miq'ote instead since not only I liked the movements, I also manage to make a good looking character and to find a voice I liked. I'll at least give the Au Ra a try on the benchmark at least and might change for one depending on the same things that made me go for a Miq'ote, then again I got quite used to my character so I may not change at all since I would feel bad about it ^^; .