So many female characters

[KageTokage]

RMT bots don't get deleted when they get permabanned. I know this because the ones I blacklisted that have long since been banned are still on my blacklist, whereas actual players who delete their character or transfer servers will show up as "Unable to retrieve".

I've seen over 100 bots active simultaneously on Cactaur alone when it was at its absolute worst (Via player search) and they've been purging a few thousand gil farming/RMT advertising bots every week for who knows how long, so they definitely do comprise a significant part of the game's population.

[NephthysVasudan]

Theoretically...it would be a bad idea to delete them.
The name is reserved/locked.
Means fewer places to make more "random named" bots.

Again..its just a theory.

[Ransom]

As my boyfriend has told me, he'd rather stare at a female butt all day then a male one.

This, basically.

I suspect that when it comes to character creation, players can (generally, there are bound to be exceptions,) be split into three major groups:

1: People who want their character to look as much like themselves as possible. They might be willing to throw in a single 'fantasy' detail like a tail or elf ears, but by and large they want themselves in the game.

2: People who want their character to look as different from themselves as possible. This includes opposite gender, and even purposely avoiding the game's 'human' stand-in race.

3: People who don't care about the above and just want whatever looks the coolest to them.

[LastFireAce]

I did play as male hyru for the entire arr, switch to female Mi'qote for HW and it was like a new game
.. never going back.

[KaivaC]

snip.

This right here. I make a few exceptions, depending on the game, but generally, I roll with a female avatar. I think I've only stuck with a male character once in an MMO environment, and that was SWTOR, but I was mostly doing that for a class assignment over a semester.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I mean, if we want to talk "built" look at the male options for any Western game... they seem deathly allergic to "cute" in any form.

A friend of mine and a friend of his(who play hyer and miqo'te respectively) tried to guesstimate where on the muscle slider the miqo'te males are fixed at. It's around 70-80ish from what they gathered. I know that miqo'te are considered the twinks of the game, but no one can deny that they look very muscle-y and a little more bulky than what a twink would entail.

[Clover_Blake]

Many females like myself enjoy playing our own gender, while many males enjoy playing females because they consider them attractive.

I'm not sure that this game is the one where this sort of thing happens the most though. I see many male characters, unlike certain other games...

[Maeka]

Every time I see this explanation I wonder how people play so zoomed in in game. I figure it would make it hard to dodge stuff.

You zoom out when fighting a boss that's actually got anything difficult to dodge. Like, I don't do Castrum Fluminis zoomed in, no. Obviously not. I zoom out so I can see the whole battlefield. But, say, a Sastasha or Baby Ifrit or something, that's really not necessary.

Fighting anything else or just crafting or walking around in town or something, I like to zoom in. I didn't spend all that time creating the look I want for my character, and/or glamours only to have her zoomed out so far that she's just a speck on screen.

The amount of people that seem to play zoomed in is uh, saddening.

Why is it saddening? You CAN zoom in and out depending on the fight with a light touch of your finger on the mousewheel, you know.

It's not like I'm going to drop dead in Castrum Fluminis because my character fills half the screen, because, you know, I can zoom out for that fight and zoom back in when done.

[silverlunarfox]

Honestly? Glamour options.

I tried making a male toon....the glamour options are just....bad.....

[PyurBlue]

In any kind of story driven game I tend insert myself into the story, I like to answer dialogue options and stuff as if they were directed at me and If I'm really invested in a story I find it hard to play a character. So I choose female by default.

I don't think the male/female character ratio is highly skewed one way or another though. I haven't noticed a shortage of males in either major cities or in dungeons.