So many female characters

[Ayer2015]

Why does it seem like 3/4 of players chose female characters? In other MMOs this doesn't seem to be the case.

[jameseoakes]

Why does it seem like 3/4 of players chose female characters? In other MMOs this doesn't seem to be the case.

This game only likes making gear for female characters?

[Mirakumi]

As my boyfriend has told me, he'd rather stare at a female butt all day then a male one. So I shrug.

[CainCrimson]

Welcome to Final Fantasy and the last several decades of anime influenced media.

[Risvertasashi]

This game only likes making gear for female characters?

At least, a lot of the gear is certainly designed for female characters first *coughhealers*.

[Ayer2015]

As my boyfriend has told me, he'd rather stare at a female butt all day then a male one. So I shrug.

There are no butts in this game

[TheMightyMollusk]

Why does it seem like 3/4 of players chose female characters? In other MMOs this doesn't seem to be the case.

Clearly you've never taken a walk around a Horde city on WoW and looked at all the blood elves.

[DevonEllwood]

As my boyfriend has told me, he'd rather stare at a female butt all day then a male one. So I shrug.

Every time I see this explanation I wonder how people play so zoomed in in game. I figure it would make it hard to dodge stuff.

[OwlBlackX]

As my boyfriend has told me, he'd rather stare at a female butt all day then a male one. So I shrug.

Same women can play males as watch thier sexy :P

Myself real life is lady. I play this my male au ra. Sicne I don't interest play females, I like males.

[Vidu]

This more due to your perception than to actual numbers, I'd say - check this: http://ff14net.2chblog.jp/archives/50236197.html

I ts the official census from 2016 (I couldnt find a more recent one this quick). Even though its japanese its easy enough to read that the gender-distribution favours males over females.

In japan it was close to a 50/50 split back then, while both NA as EU had more of a 40/60 split, favouring male characters.

Unless that drastically changed during the past one and a half year, it only seems that 3/4 of the characters are females. (granted, I'm not sure if the census included all the generic male-midlander-bots)

My personal theory to why it seems that way would be: Some male characters are appearing kinda femine already - specially elezen, aswell as some midlanders and mi'qote. For lalafell its almost impossible to tell wether its a male or a female - you can totally make a male lala look like a female one! With gear often catering more to females aswell (dresslike robes etc.) you may not actually mistake a male elezen for a female one but when you're just glancing at a crowd might not notice how many males are actually hiding in there.