Do roegadyns ever celebrate a holiday?

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At least I have become blatantly racist towards kitty girls and lizard people, so keep shoving it in our faces SE!

Oh come on, you can be better than that.

I would say that other than my previous statement this topic is more hostile towards the lack of diversity in the race representation than towards cat/lizard people but hey if you want to victimize yourself go on ahead.

I've always felt like some races / genders were more prominent but I've always thought it was in my head. Now that I get to see them back to back... it wasn't.

From a company that just caters to the majority and only plays safe this hardly comes as a surprise. I'm surprised it took us that long to actually point at the elephant in the room.

Well now, I wasn't pulling a victim card at all, but that's your opinion, so whatever.

I don't think this is about playing it safe, it's about knowing your audience, if that's a problem for you, then I doubt you'll ever find satisfaction because entertainment companies that do not follow the rule of knowing your audience end up failing.

As I mentioned to another poster much earlier in the topic I didn't have the time or inclination yesterday to trawl back through the various in-game events such as the Starlight festival, Hatching Tide, Moonfire Faire, etc... But, you know what, I spent the last couple of hours doing just that and counting the faces I could identify, and counting the ones that were clearly prominent to the event (if they stood out starkly from the others).

The results are exactly as I would have expected. First of all, the overall spread of appearances of the various races and genders is broadly in line with the race/gender demographics that has been posted earlier in this topic, there is a little variation, but they are in broad agreement.

TL;DR - A few things stand out in the numbers; Roegadyn appear to be least used, Hyur most used, and Miqote (female) are most prominent.

My method was to look at the event artwork on the LodeStone, I included all the annual festival events as well as Breaking Bricks, Burgeoning Dead, Lightning, Yo Kai, Gold Saucer launch, Make it Rain, etc. I also counted the artwork for the Countdown to Heavensward and Welcome to Ishgard. For each event I also checked the images for the reward items for which character race(s) was/were used.

Those who are overall least likely to be included or featured are Female Roegadyn - bar none. Overall, I counted only 4 appearances that I could specifically see were Female Roegadyn, and except for the heavensward countdown, none were prominent.

The most featured race is Hyur, followed by Miqo'te, Lalafel, Elezen, Roegadyn and Au'Ra, although Au'Ra are at a disadvantage having come along 2 years later. If you count only since their appearance in the game there are more Hyur than any other race, Hyur are followed by Miqo'te, Lalafel, Elezen and Au'Ra and last Roegadyn.

Overall Roegadyn are the least likely to be included in the images with a total of only (24 appearances)- this has never been in dispute. Female roe are almost invisible though with only 4 appearances that I could find - if anyone else wishes to do this, and can identify more female Roegadyn than this, I will be glad, but even moving an appearance or two around, Roegadyn still come last in the numbers.

If you look since Au'Ra appeared, Roegadyn are still last with just 8 appearances in the time that the Au'Ra have gathered 16.

Overall Hyur are the race most likely to be in event images, but if we split by gender, Female Miqo'te (36 appearances) just pass female Hyur (34) and male Hyur (34).

In terms of what would be considered prominently featured, as in standing out starkly from the other characters, you will not be surprised to find that female Miqo'te are far and away the most often featured. But, it's not as lopsided as you think. If we only look at the time since Au'Ra arrived in the game(By race);

• the most featured is Hyur with 27 apperances, 4 of which were prominent,
• then Miqo'te with 19 appearances, 6 of which were prominent,
• Elezen have had 17 appearances with 5 prominent ones,
• Lalafel had 17 with 5 prominent,
• Roegadyn have only had 8 with 1 prominent.
• Au'Ra had 16 appearances with 4 prominent ones.

The Au'Ra might have expected to do better, since they were the featured new race in the expansion, but apparently not.

The most popular race/gender combinations in the time since Au'Ra joined us are;

• Female Miqo'te with 16 appearances, 6 of which were prominent,
• female Lalafel with 11 appearances, 4 prominent
• female Au'Ra had 11 appearances with 3 prominent ones
• male Hyur had 12 appearances, 2 of which were prominent
• and surprisingly male elezen with 10 appearances, 3 of which were prominent

I have the numbers in a worksheet, but I am not sure if I can post it here. It doesn't really matter though, the broad trends are clear, Female Roegadyn are almost invisible, Female Miqo'te are used a lot, but then, so are female Au'Ra, female Lalafel, male Hyur and surprisingly male Elezen.

Although the spread of the of appearances I could count is broadly in line with the population demographics by race in Eorzea, when you break it down by gender it's undeniable that Roegadyn females are really neglected, and Female Miqo'te are frequently selected over others for the artwork especially (reward images are more even handed), but it's not as stark as you think when female Lalafel, female Aura and Male Hyur are all almost as frequently featured, and often prominently featured.

If you break down Hyur into Highlander and Midlander, Highlanders are clearly less favored for images than Midlanders, and it's not even close.

Since Au'Ra joined us, in order of least likely to appear we have female Roegadyn, male Highlanders, male Miqo'te and female Highlanders. If you just look at races, Roegadyn do appear less frequently than any other race. Hyur have the most appearances overall, and Miqo'te (mostly due to females) are the most prominently featured overall.

If you read this far, thank you. This is essentially confirming what we already knew and was never in doubt that Rogadyn appear less often, and female Miqo'te appear more often, and are more often prominently featured. This has never been in doubt.

Where the discussion started for me was in regards to the breakdown of player race/gender. there are obvious winners and losers in that and event art and images are bound to follow the same trends. A such, Roegadyn are one of the least popular races and will be less frequently featured.

Why are female Roegadyn, male Highlanders, female Highlanders and male Miqo'te less popular player choices? I don't know, that's player personal choice. Why are those same groups least featured (disproportionately so) by the various artists involved? I don't know, perhaps they like drawing catgirls more?

P.S. if you look at it all since ARR started female Miqo'te have the most appearances overall and clearly the most prominent appearances, with the next best being female Lalafel and female Hyur. To keep things fair, I baselined when the Au'Ra joined the game instead.