Blame Squeenix for why we all play as Miqo'te

[TruebladeNuke]

Looking at the pie charts, this thread shouldn't be complaining about too many Miqo'tes. It should be complaining about too many Hyrus.

However, seeing as how Hyrus are effectively the Human race in this game, it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's the race that's most abundant. After all, all the people playing this game are human. Then there's of course the popularity over characters who are only slightly beastly and said features are that of a cat, so I'm not surprised to see them as second most popular.

By the end of the day though, we all chose the race we wanted to play as because we felt like it. I went with a female Miqo'te in this game because in pretty much every other game I play, I'm always maining as a human dude. I simply asked myself the following question:

"How often do I get to play as a cat girl? Let alone choose to?"

So I went with that, just to be different from my usual routine. Besides, I've always had a slight interest in cat folk.

[Gralna]

So... did no one bring up the census data that shows that Miqo'te are actually NOT the most common? The most common, actually, are Midlander Hyur males.

Looking at the pie charts, this thread shouldn't be complaining about too many Miqo'tes. It should be complaining about too many Hyrus.

Male Hyur Midlanders are only the most common out of all the race/gender/clans because that is the default option all the botters use when creating their characters, some get bored and will choose another race/gender but still with the default look. I'd say in my experience though, roughly 90% of bots are the same default male midlander.

[ElHeggunte]

In a fantasy world full of beauty the Hulk type race with its colossal arms is ugly!

What are you smoking? Roe women are hot. "Hulky" or no, I would have no qualms about letting a Roe woman manhandle me. Oh man, I'm starting to sweat just thinking about all the things I'd let her do to me.

[Mimilu]

Male Hyur Midlanders are only the most common out of all the race/gender/clans because that is the default option all the botters use when creating their characters, some get bored and will choose another race/gender but still with the default look. I'd say in my experience though, roughly 90% of bots are the same default male midlander.

Yeah! Without those damn botters, I bet Fem-Roe would be the most common because we are superior! >:v

[YukiTerumi]

It's ok guys come expansion Au Ra's are the new lizard people cause secretly that's what all cat people were and now they no longer do they need to hide for total work domination!

[Quesse]

Out of the four races the Miqo'te is the only one most people will bother with.

The census data says otherwise.

[DevilsDontFly]

I also think that Midlander Hyur is so common in database because of botters. If you look at how many botters/RMTs are there, you'll see that almost every single one is the default Hyur with THM class. And that's enough to fill up data about which race is played more.

I can say that every single DF roll I do there's at least one Miqo'te on the party. Sometimes the whole party but me is composed of Miqo'tes. I know that on theory Hyurs are everywhere, but on practice I can say that I see about 3 or 4 Hyurs for 8 - 12 Miqo'te.

[Raminax]

I can say that every single DF roll I do there's at least one Miqo'te on the party. Sometimes the whole party but me is composed of Miqo'tes. I know that on theory Hyurs are everywhere, but on practice I can say that I see about 3 or 4 Hyurs for 8 - 12 Miqo'te.

I'll admit my experiences are similar, although I can't say exact numbers or percentages. Hyur definitely do not feel as common as the census implies. Lalafell also seem to far too common in my experience to only make up 14% of the population. Elezen also seem a fair bit rarer than Lalafell, despite having the same percentage. That said, I suppose a lot could change in the first quarter of 2015...

[Jim_Berry]

I chose Miqo'te because I was Mithra in FFXI from 2005 to Nov 2014.

[VargasVermillion]

Hyurs are obviously the best playable since gear is guaranteed to look good regardless, no tails or ear sheaths or being too small to even see details.

The master race overall is actually the Garlean race, they are Aryan in appearance and are technologically superior to us eorzean savages.