Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Komarimono]

everyobdy forgot about the second part though whic his interesting :/ Male hrotgar numbers are sadly insanely low for a new race, which I hough wasnt gonna belik ethat. Makes me sad. I even have a male hrotgar alt lvl 37 and they look super cool after playing w them.

Oh, and ofc, god forbidd ppl want femenine men, plus it has a lot to do with being lgtb?

How do we know Hrothgar are low population though? Every Dungeon I've ran, there's been 1-2. And not everyone wants feminine men, no.. I mean even with your changed numbers of, 50, 40, 30% etc they would be highly exaggerated. Even the census of LGBT population around the world is not even 4%. Think United States/Canada etc combined is around 4.2%? Europe and surrounding areas like 3.1%?

I mean, they are highly vocal, this is true. But even though I am considered "LGBT" I personally don't consider myself part of their community due to how they act many times against what I prefer to be associated with.

Just saying =P Numbers help and all. Google search ftw on that end. And I've oddly met few gay/lesbian people in FF14, most of those who say they are, can be found in the forums, which is a very small % of the actual player base. Many still never use the forums, sometimes just make a post or two then gone again.

But going back to my original point, even if some don't agree, and it is just my opinion, I don't see how it correlates in having anything to do with male Viera.

[StrongBear]

How do we know Hrothgar are low population though? Every Dungeon I've ran, there's been 1-2.

Yeah, that's been my experience too. Not just dungeons, they're everywhere

[Gwenorai]

snip.

To make it easier to look at the data, I made some tables.



Out of the female races, Roegadyn and Elezen were hit the hardest, both losing 10% of their population. Au Ra also lost a lot at 8%, but they still vastly outnumber both Roegadyn and Elezen. Lalafell only lost 2%, which doesn't surprise me too much. One of the biggest reasons why people play Lalafell is because they're tiny, which is something Viera doesn't offer. It should come to no surprise that the top 3 are the "waifu" races. I'm sure it's going to stay this way until the game is finally shut down.



Most of the male races actually saw an increase in their population. Except for Roegadyn, which was hit hard, losing 10% of its population.

Roegadyn are exceptionally rare now. Think of it like this. There are more Hrothgar out there (23,307) than there are male and female Roegadyn combined (22,682). The people who were worried and expressed concerns about the Roegadyn population being thinned out by Hrothgar and Viera were absolutely right.

Someone got the official numbers already; so this is how we know Hrothgar are low population; most folks who seem to be on Hrothgar were previous Roes.

[Lunavi]

How do we know Hrothgar are low population though?

XIVcensus has data on how many players there are of each race, both active and total. I would, however, argue that the active one is slightly unreliable at the moment as everyone who have completed 4.1 still counts as active according to its criteria, which makes the new races seem less popular than I actually think they are.

[Lauront]

XIVcensus has data on how many players there are of each race, both active and total. I would, however, argue that the active one is slightly unreliable at the moment as everyone who have completed 4.1 still counts as active according to its criteria, which makes the new races seem less popular than I actually think they are.

The Luckybancho stats are more reliable, to my knowledge, but if you don't know Japanese you need to use google translate to get around, and I don't know whether he maintains race breakdowns.

[dustdjinn]

If male Viera join the rest of us what do you think the lore reasoning will be for leaving the forest?

[Gwenorai]

If male Viera join the rest of us what do you think the lore reasoning will be for leaving the forest?

*Finally sees a male Viera come out of the wood*
'What are you doing out here?'
Viera: 'Forest is haunted.'
*Watches as they get MCH weapon and GNB*
'What?'
Viera: *Cocks gun* Forest is haunted.