Gender ratio

[XykeVayaris]

I am a true female playing a male character and it’s hilariously entertaining listening to other people responses when I go on voice when them.
To add: On a random party to Shinryu Ex with friends, i offhandedly commended "Huh, there's only two male characters in this party" And one of them replied "Ironically, both the male characters are played by IRL females." There were four irl male and females in that party at that time.

[Iscah]

Female player with a female character here. I think my FC has fairly even amounts of male and female players - though I haven't gone around asking everyone what they are. Unless they say something about it, I just assume people are their in-game gender.

I made two alt characters (to play the first part of the game in each city) - one is male, and it felt a bit odd when I realised that people might be perceiving me as a male player because of it. I haven't played enough as him to notice being treated differently to my other characters - though I haven't really interacted with anyone on either alt.

[ErryK]

I'm pretty sure all male roes are born gay.

Not quite. I know a handful of Roes that are not gay.

[Texa]

Not quite. I know a handful of Roes that are not gay.

Most Roe players are know are either
1. Gay.
2. Super into bara which may or may not also include #1 because there are a fair amount of women who like bara.
3. A troll.
4. A teenage boy(or a grown man who acts like one) who wanted to play something that wasn't a "sissy" who is in for a wild time when they meet 1, 2, and 3.

But anyways, I'm a girl and I only play as a girl. I chose Elezen because I like being a little weird looking. There's plenty of girls who play, but a lot of them tend to keep to themselves or their own circle of friends to try to avoid harassment. I still encounter a fair amount of dudes who don't think any girls play at all. That rhetoric doesn't usually bother me, they'd just be making fools of themselves irl. But I have a fair amount of transgirl friends in the game and the "ur not a real girl!!1!!" spiel takes on a very different context with them. It ain't cool.

[VanilleFang]

Not quite. I know a handful of Roes that are not gay.

[ErryK]

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It was supposed to be funny? Because it sounded like generalization to me.

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I've never seen 4. 3 are immature, seen way too many joke Roes. 1 and 2 is mostly truth, I know a few women who play male Roe because they like the muscular aspect.

[VanilleFang]

It was supposed to be funny? Because it sounded like generalization to me.

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That's literally the joke. And this is coming from a gay man.

Here, I'll just give you an example thread from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ros_out_there/

[ErryK]

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Nice joke, I guess? (/shrug)

[Fhaerron]

I play a male Hyur midlander.

I have always played a male in most games. I'm 100% straight but the character also looks like me.

I had a female alt in WoW and in RIFT too and while I almost never played them, whenever I did I got the horny teenager wanting to erp most of the times, I always told that I was a guy and I got instantly blacklisted for some reason ... :/ And here I am trying to be as friendly as possible.

Anyhow, that's something I don't have to worry about when I play my main male character. It's not the reason why I play a male but it's a nice bonus anyhow.

[MerleSirlos]

Male player here. I usually talk with other player refering to what their character gender is unless they correct me (irl gender shouldn't matter).
I'm a long time mmorpg player and have played both male and female characters. I tend to chose the gender based on the type of character I want to play. Females get the show on magicians/healers/archers while male get the tanks/fighters types. Assassin/thieves types are left to whatever I have less off. For FFXIV however, I started as a female Miqo'te playing a Monk as it was what felt better on my idea of the job with the options I had (I don't like how most men look like, only Roe would fit nicely for a very bulky tank). When I switched to main tank, I changed to female Roe, didn't went male only because I didn't want to pay for a name change and the look was good enough for what I wanted
But with HW and the Au Ra, I switched to male day 1 and changed name.
When playing female characters I got some guys trying to flirt and give me items/money and I usually correct them when it happens (and they get very disapointed) but it was on very few occasions. Maybe 2 or 3 times in all those years only, got lucky I guess.
So far, most people I met where male, but the people I got closer to and who became mmo players friends tend to be 60-40 with a majority of females (though FFXIV made that trend come closer to 50/50 but females are still a majority).
I also had a strange discussion with a female player that really thought I was a girl and started a more private conversation about girly stuff. I tried to made her realise I was male without saying it out straight away but that had the opposite effect instead. So from then I try to let the other know if I sense any risk of confusion being possible.