So many female characters

[ElHeggunte]

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.)

I haven't played TERA in many an age (it was still pay-2-play during my tenure to give you an idea of how long it's been), but isn't that mostly because the current best/coolest classes are specifically locked to Elin? Kind of like how in Blade & Soul there are less Lyn than you would expect because they only have one race-exclusive class and it's really only a variation of a class that several other races can be anyway (of course, I haven't played that in ages either so things may have changed, but I feel like I saw more torpedo-tit Gons more than anything, with a smattering of Jins too--moreso than I feel like I saw Lolis Lyns at any rate).

[MsQi]

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

Oh, i'm sorry, your perception and conjecture are far superior to SE's statistics.

[KaijinRhada]

I typically go for male characters, though exceptions exist. Going to most areas though, I wouldn't say there's more of one sex over the other, and it seems pretty even.

Also, echoing that our characters are sadly lacking in booty, and you would really need to be zoomed in to see the butt in any meaningful way, or really not paying attention to anything else

Wait, all the people not getting out of AoEs, are they just looking at their character's rear and not the telegraphs?

[Recaldy]

Because I wanna look at something pretty cause pretty doesn't exist where I'm at? Elf ears too while I'm at it.

[MsQi]

Wait, all the people not getting out of AoEs, are they just looking at their character's rear and not the telegraphs?

Now I want statistics on this before and after they add the butt slider!

[KaivaC]

If I could add to this nice discussion you guys are having, games where you can customize and choose gender, I tend to go female because I like the idea of being someone other than a male. I grew up too much on male-centric action movies, so I've kinda grown desensitized to it. Experiencing a story from a female perspective (or how I imagine she would react in storyline) is a fresh take on a lot of things to me, so that tends to drive my choices. It also doesn't help that in games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age Inquisition, and Fallout 4, the female VAs completely outshined the male voice actors.

[Bellsong]

Careful, some of those females might actually be males!



I can't tell ya how many people mistook me for a girl when I was rocking this. (Especially when I changed that scarf to a ribbon!)

[HyoMinPark]

Oh, i'm sorry, your perception and conjecture are far superior to SE's statistics.

What they’re saying is that SE’s statistics include RMT bots. That’s why they have males projected higher—most RMT bots are the generic Male Hyur Midlanders, though I do see a lot of the THM bots as male Lalafells.

[MsQi]

What they’re saying is that SE’s statistics include RMT bots. That’s why they have males projected higher—most RMT bots are the generic Male Hyur Midlanders, though I do see a lot of the THM bots as male Lalafells.

I know exactly What Rita is saying. The whole point of what I originally quoted was that people are going by their own perceptions which is anecdotal evidence. You and Rita are just saying "Our anecdotal evidence beats SE's statistics."

[Vidu]

What they’re saying is that SE’s statistics include RMT bots. That’s why they have males projected higher—most RMT bots are the generic Male Hyur Midlanders, though I do see a lot of the THM bots as male Lalafells.

When I looked up the statictis (and shared them in this thread), I thought the same, but there are still things to consider that are making those statistics more valid than anecdotal experience and then perception of the 3/4 ratio the OP claims:

You can correct me on this one, should I be mistaken, but those RMT-bots are the ones that get actually deleted, are they not? So while some might show up in the statictis, those are only the ones that are currently active - seeing how each week about 4k of them are getting banned and how we have 11 million registers characters or about 570k active ones, thats a tiny, tiny portion.
Even if we only take NA into consideartion, with about 250k active characters, that would be roughly 1,6%
I dont know if SE used anything to filter out bots in their statics and I know the amount of them can seem overwhemling, when you see like 30 of them teleporting at once, but generally speaking: I would assume that the statics doesnt include so many bots that it isnt a reperensation of actual player-preference anymore. Maybe not down to the excat number, but certainly not enough to shift the 40/60 ratio to a 75/25 one - thats down to personal perception. Maybe its more like 50/50 for the western world aswell, if you subtract the bots - but I doubt its gonna be much more/different than that.