Quote Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora View Post
A lot of people are bored of the standard video game "rugged male" protagonist, others still enjoy it.

I guess my overall point is there probably is not a consensus of the types of characters people desire. I like the variety of different types in XIV and I don't really need to find every character attractive.
That's the thing though, we don't really have that sort of variety in FFXIV these days. The closest to rugged we had was Thancred's scruff back in Heavensward or Hien, both of which have now left the story. The "rugged" cast member is missing and before anyone has the genius idea to bring up Estinien, no what those of us who like having party members like Gladio or Basch do not want to run around with some dude who has his hair in a ponytail like a middle school english teacher.

When the time came for them to start serving up new party members, what we've gotten so far is Zero, Vrtra, and in 7.0, Krile. Granted there's still a chance that they might add in the sort of character I'd like to see prior to 7.0 or in 7.0 itself but the aversion to masculine aesthetics in game has been an ongoing situation for quite a while now. Again, see the midlander beard issue, with Yoshi being surprised that people wanted that beard for themselves. It's just mindboggling how something so basic is beyond their understanding.