Do roegadyns ever celebrate a holiday?

[Zojha]

Roegadyn are probably way more common in the West than in Japan, but they're still far from what I would call popular.

We once had a lodestone survey on that and it was pretty much the same thing across both regions with only minimal differences. It was the same survey that also showed that male Xaela are loads and bounds more popular than male Raen. The best I can find right now is this however http://imgur.com/ga08fvN , which is a race breakdown by server. Alas!
Either way, it's very likely the preferences between JP and West are not actually much different as far as races are concerned.

[Kupocoubo]

But do Lalas and Miqo'te have a powerful Primal represented by their races ? I think not.
While Elezens, you know...



(Yes ! I am jealous because we Elezens are the less represented in those holidays posters ! Why ? We are beautiful )

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I imagine part of it has to do with the popularity of the race more than anything. Miqo'te are much easier to work easier into art and tend to look the friendliest in comparison. Female Roe on the other hand tend to look distinctly unfriendly from what I've seen, so perhaps that's part of it? I never really noticed or was bothered by it really.

[FallenWings]

... Feels bad man.

Feels so bad when the cute races are constantly pampered and the more elegant/mature races are left to rot.

I'm mad.

(Disclaimer: I'm only an au'ra because it's the face I've always wanted. I despise my waifu proportions.)

[Kosmos992k]

But do Lalas and Miqo'te have a powerful Primal represented by their races ?

We has this...

(Yes ! I am jealous because we Elezens are the less represented in those holidays posters ! Why ? We are beautiful )

Many consider Giraffes to be elegant and beautiful creatures, but how many cute Giraffe calendars are there?



...OK, this I did not expect...
Giraffe conservancy Giraffe Calendar 2017

I stand corrected...



You know, some of my best friends are Elezen. How else would I get things from the top shelf at the store?


Yes, I am joking...

Welcoming us to Ishgard with a single Elezen barely noticeable in the picture. The most populous race there. Should've been front and center, but cat and lizard girls take the spot. Shameful! Racism is real!

Sounds more like jealousy than prejudice. :P

Seriously though, I wonder if that graph Zojha linked above might have more to do with the choice of characters to represent Eorzea on posters for events? Probably so, me thinks..

[PArcher]

Honestly, everyone saying they "love" elezen/roe/highlanders but they play a catgirl/(f)au ra/lala aren't helping the devs see these races are liked (and I don't actually belive that you love those races like you say, sorry). They're most likely looking at player race data, seeing which are (un)popular and making decisions based on that. Saying you like a race is one thing, but the action of being one sends the message you do to the devs.

(as an aside, my two most played characters are a female highlander and male duskwight)

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Honestly, everyone saying they "love" elezen/roe/highlanders but they play a catgirl/(f)au ra/lala aren't helping the devs see these races are liked (and I don't actually belive that you love those races like you say, sorry). They're most likely looking at player race data, seeing which are (un)popular and making decisions based on that. Saying you like a race is one thing, but the action of being one sends the message you do to the devs.

(as an aside, my two most played characters are a female highlander and male duskwight)

Personally, I don't really like most of the races we have available. ^^; Roe look too antisocial and aggressive for me, Hyur are too... normal, I've never been a fan of elves, except Legolas because badass, and I don't really like lalas, too short.

[Kikoten]

For a while, society made me feel that loving Lalafells made me a pedophile. Out of shame, I used Fantasia... numerous times. But then I went back to my old Lalafell form for a number of reasons:

1) Possibly the biggest one, I love to RP, and changing my character's form makes RPing pretty darn hard unless I can come up with a reason for why the change happened. If I were to fork over the extra bucks for a name change along with the Fantasia, it'd be easier to keep RPing. I've already written a story for my character, so it's hard to play a different race under his name.

2) Related to 1), I don't want to fork over the extra bucks for a name change. This makes things all kinds of awkward between me and people who have me on their friend lists. They either stop talking to me (seriously, what's with that?) or they take me off their friend list (seriously, I don't get it... over a race change?). So on top of 1), I'm treated differently based on what race/gender I am. The last time I was a female Miqo'te, I was invisible. But when I was a male Miqo'te, I had people making weird sexual advances toward me. Yet, when I was a female Lalafell, a couple of people started asking me if I was a dude IRL. Yet when I'm a male Lalafell (my normal form), I'm just nothing but a teddy bear. SOCIETY, YOU ARE WEIRD!

3) Still going back to the whole RP thing, I don't want my character to disappear. I gave him an archetype personality that I absolutely love, and I don't feel like I can pull it off as any other race. I tried, and it was just awkward.

So I say that I love Roegadyns, yet I don't play one. Well, I do once in a while. I have a Roegadyn alt. But, you know, this game isn't very alt friendly, and the idea of doing all that crap again makes me want to go back to my main. Because even if I do find the time and drive to start leveling my alt, she'll never have as much stuff as my main does. She won't have the same emotes, she won't have the same outfits, and she won't have the same achievements.

[Vivi_Bushido]

It's not sad. It's called business. It has nothing to with undermining a certain race. People want cute waifus more. The company just simply caters to the greater dominator. Which happens to be Miqo'te.




Source: https://ffxivcensus.com/

The top image is all characters created which includes bots. That's why male Hyur is so high. The second image is active players. This chart here shows that female Miqo'te and female Au Ra are the most picked races among active players.

[Medicine]

Down with the waifu races! XD

Seriously though why don't more people love Roe's? We're the cuddliest!!