Quote Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso View Post
Are they really? Interesting.
I mean yeah, my Server has lots of Hrothgar in it compared to the Male Viera, but do we (Remember I have an Alt) really outnumber to competition that had WAAAAAYYY more attention brought to it?
-"Globally-"?
Zanarkand, this is FFXIV Census. It's pooled from the Lodestone, meaning it's global. This is the result you get from all the active accounts in the game regardless of datacenter or region. Only if you scroll down do you get more nuanced data based on stuff like that. But for the races, it's a global result, it's not discriminating between worlds.

Yes. We outnumber "the competition". We barely, BARELY do, but the numbers are there: Hrothgar currently outnumber Male Viera.

And I know what many will say. "Oh but this is old data", no it bloody isn't, Endwalker was released only half a year ago, the numbers may be large but they're somewhat stable to make a census.

And keep in mind what ronibosch said: Hrothgar would be higher had Square Enix made the race properly to begin with. They've been giving it bad press on conception and turning many away from it. AND YET we outnumber Male Viera at the moment.

I don't care if Male Viera got that many players on such short notice: it was hyped to hell so of course it would. But the fact remains that Square made that race for the people who asked, and as it stands? They don't outnumber us. THEY are the true 2%, not us. Yet they came out right (within reason). And they didn't get dismissed or handwaved with the world's worst, trashiest hairstyle announcement that would make a L'Oreal advert look like a million bucks!