Gender ratio

[MoroMurasaki]

My friends are great, of course, but sometimes it feels pretty alienating and I miss normal girl talk. Is this a common thing?

I can very much relate to this bit specifically.

I play this game with some awesome guys between my boyfriend, friends from the forum and my FC and yet I only know two (maybe 3?) girls who play.

One thing I've learned though is that a lot of girls just don't tell anyone that they're girls because they think they'll be hassled about it. While this isn't an experience I've had much of I understand the idea behind it.

But yeah, one thing I tend to not get much of on here is girl talk. Even something superficial like my complaints about the two wildly different pigmentation options for eye shadow and blush and how both are pretty much not things you do irl are met with silence/jokes usually.

Stick it out OP. There are girl gamers out there, just apparently we camouflage.

[Risvertasashi]

Lately I've been aware of just how few other girls I've met; I know two in total, in both my FC and FL/ hang-out group, and over the two years I've been playing I've only met a handful (almost always my FC leaders.) My friends are great, of course, but sometimes it feels pretty alienating and I miss normal girl talk. Is this a common thing?

Just my own anecdata/experience but almost every raid group I've had or known indirectly, has had 1 female player, which is a 1:7 ratio. There might be slightly more on the social side of the game but we don't tend to use voice as much in non raid settings, so it's hard to tell. I've definitely been in some FC discords where the ratio is much more balanced.

One thing I've learned though is that a lot of girls just don't tell anyone that they're girls because they think they'll be hassled about it. While this isn't an experience I've had much of I understand the idea behind it.

If you play a game like overwatch, I think you'd understand instantly. FFXIV is really one of the better communities out there. A number of others still think it's the 18th century, apparently...