FFXIV 2nd expansion: Viera-like race still a possibility?

[MsCroc]

Female roegadyn reporting in.
I would not have subscribed to FFXIV if they had not made female roegadyn. I don't play little races (lalafell), I don't like elves, I don't play humans, Miqo'te are fanservice, Au Ra have weird sexual dimorphism that freaks me out, and I would not play a male roe.
Female roegadyn is literally the only combination I am willing to play as.

Let's say for a moment that only 2% of players are female roegadyn. Sounds like a very small number. However, first take into consideration that at present there are 12 gender/race combos. If every race/gender combo was equal, that would factor to about 8.3% for each. However, we also realize that this perfect equality in the population is impossible and it's not wrong or bad for some race/gender populations to be more popular than other. Additionally, every MMO has 1 or 2 races that drastically out populate everyone else.

2% on a business level is not a small number, not when the 2% is coming from numbers in the millions.

What I am ultimately getting at that I agree that diversity in new races should be prioritized. When you introduce a new race two potential things could happen

1. An existing player gets excited because the new race is new so why not experience the FoM? Or they might permanently like it more than the old. Doesn't matter either way. An existing player changes to new race: SE mostly just gains hype from this. (Which is admittedly powerful)

2. A player who was not interested in playing before now has a reason to play. Seems like a dumb reason not to play a game, but it seems video game companies are constantly underestimating how much players value their own personalized characters.

As of right now, taking advantage of Point #2 would be advantageous for SE as all the races currently in game are just humans with slight variations. With that said, SE, please give us a beast race or monster race of some kind. And make the females look equally beastly. None of this "men are fierce, women are cute" only stuff. I want to be a fierce monster lady! Rawr!

[Snolily]

http://fantasitrade.com/Images/Wood%20Golem.png
This is what i want: A Female Wood Golem And then A Male Golem like my fiance suggested in the forums which his name is Kalifas Artexas, you can find his post about it as well.
http://compositeeffects.com/mystore/...01-600x800.jpg

With different crystals and gems for the skin:

http://creative-harmonics.org/scienc...mages/gems.jpg

[Ultimatecalibur]

But people still play as them. If SE only make what is popular, every single female is going to be obnoxiously cute/adorable, while males will be given special treatment (new unique look).

I'm trying to explain the problem that SE is caught in. When around only 2%* (and likely less) of PCs are using a character model creating options for that percentage of the player base has less priority than pleasing the larger groups of the total population.

Doesn't that sound, I dunno... a little sexist?

Its the player base being sexist not the Dev team. The player base would be the ones making judgements based on the appearance of that sexual variation of the race not the dev team.

The dev team has a lot of ideas for new races, but they can't implement them all because of development costs. So they develop what marketing data believes will be the most profitable.

As of right now, taking advantage of Point #2 would be advantageous for SE as all the races currently in game are just humans with slight variations. With that said, SE, please give us a beast race or monster race of some kind. And make the females look equally beastly. None of this "men are fierce, women are cute" only stuff. I want to be a fierce monster lady! Rawr!

Creating new races is not cheap. If a new race increases the player population by 1% but cost more than 1% of the budget to implement then creating the race was non-profitable and that budget could have been better spent elsewhere.

I don't like it, but that does not mean I don't understand where they are coming from.

*2014 Census puts Roegadyn at 5% of the character base in both JP and NA/EU. Combine that with 41% female characters in NA/EU and you get roughly 2% of the characters being Roegadyn Females by the data shared. Actual ratio for male:female Roes could lean much more to the male side.