So many female characters

[MirielleLavandre]

In this game female character looks extremely beautiful, but in wow you pick something that looks more like cool or funny because female characters in that game is that not that pretty.

:P my lil sub rogue isn't too, too shabby ^_^v

[einschwartz]

Part of those who started playing male characters has convert themselves to female solely for more glamour.

[MsQi]

This more due to your perception than to actual numbers, I'd say - check this: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/50236197.html

Well that should put this to rest.

/thread

[Linx0r]

Haven't you heard that MMORPG means Many Men Online RolePlaying Girls?

Lol this is funny and true

[vigioX-Sun]

Females play females
males play females

[Rita1989]

Well that should put this to rest.

/thread

Except bots and most rmt are 100% male and probably have more players on the lodestone then real ones that's why EU and NA are off compared to jp

[Iscah]

There are still bots on the Japanese servers. I've seen plenty around.


The other interesting chart there is the second one, showing race choice. (I can't really 'read Japanese' but I can scrape through with katakana enough to recognise the names.)

Clockwise the segments are Hyuran (dark blue), Elezen (red), Lalafell (green), Miqo'te (purple), Roegadyn (light blue) and Au Ra (yellow). All fairly even across the three charts.... except for Lalafell which is 28% in Japanese servers vs. 18% elsewhere.


Another chart that isn't there but I think would be interesting, is a four-segment pie chart for each race showing clan and gender choice.

[Gemina]

I don't know what the official ratio is in this game across all servers and data centers, but I do know that there is definitely no shortage of male characters on my server. I can't speak if they are rl males or not, but it doesn't matter to me. The pronoun I give to players both in-game and on the forums is the same as the gender they choose to play, unless they tell me otherwise.

Speaking for myself, I have always chosen female characters when given the ability to do so, and gravitate towards console games where the main protagonist is female. #SamusAran. Anywho, my love for healing is also a big influence. I'm not sexist or anything, and it is perfectly fine if males want to be healers. But for myself, I feel more attuned to the role when playing it as a female. There is also the gear selection. No doubt about it, female healers have more to choose from if they desire to be feminine, and less so if they wish for a darker, more intimidating appearance. Since I prefer the former, I am completely at home playing a healer in this game.

If it truly does seem like there are more females than males... well my dear, that because we rule the world!

[Alestorm]

Why does it really matter all that much? Some people like to play something they are not, and playing the other gender further separates this from real life. Personally I make my casters female and my physical damage dealers male, I started as a archanist and then learned you could do everything on a single character so I have no real reason to have any alts much less a male one.

I also happen to like how my character looks so I have no interest in using fantasia to change anything.

[Corfish]

Try playing TERA, literally 90% of the people you run into are playing naked lolis. It's actually pretty perturbing after awhile (and boring, I get tired of seeing the same race and class everywhere I go.)