Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
Thanks.

I personally don't doubt that Hrothgar will do better than Roegadyn (and we will only know several months after 5.0 is out), but the claim being made by some here is that they would be more popular than mViera, which is entirely contingent on the build SE opts for and tweaks it makes to it, enough so for me to dismiss any blanket assertions to the effect about mHrothgar being more popular than mViera as nonsense, particularly when the argument is simply premised on demand based on other games. It all comes down to what design SE chooses to implement for them.
Ok, I understand what you're doing. You're currently breaking down and narrowing the numbers to better suit Hrothgar with the possible races in WoW where people might be interested in it. I assumed you were throwing that a monstrous male race in WoW in general was 30%, but with the numbers we know they're played around the same amount as attractive options. I dislike always giving a definite statement about popularity of a race because of the circumstances of each game in different. As you mentioned, WoW has a more stylized artstyle in comparison to FFXIV, however, despite this difference Draenei men are still one of the least popular options. Heck, if you've played, often Draenei are compared to fridges *cough cough* like Roe's proportions. It'll be easier to understand how Hrothgar look once the benchmark comes out and we can remove armour off them and play with the camera. It is almost 100% they share similar body structure as Roe, but like what they're doing with Viera, they're probably fixing up their proportions. I know when I looked at the Hrothgar video they made me feel a bit disappointed, however, once I seen images in better lightning they improve drastically to me.

The numbers on GW2 Charr fit pretty well with the 14-15% on the heavensward poll that would possibly play a beast race (If you combined mammal/lizard beastmen). For a race/gender option to be considered a success it requires around 7.1% with the soon 14 options that will be available. Assuming that females will be around 33% of 15% (We know Roe females have a huge number shortage compared to males) we can cut the male population to 10%. We can say 10% is the best case, that despite not getting the beastmen they desired (lanky/short/dragon/dog) they'll race change because it is only the beastial option and assuming people who would play the female version wouldn't play the male as a subsitute. In that case, male Hrothgar would be a successful race/gender combination. Of course, everything is simply a prediction until at least 3-6 months after the race comes out. Once a few months have past we would have a lot stronger ground to even predict male Viera (Au'ra/Miqo'te are like 50% of their female counterpart) and female Hrothgar.