So many female characters

[Ransom]

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

This, basically.

I suspect that when it comes to character creation, players can (generally, there are bound to be exceptions,) be split into three major groups:

1: People who want their character to look as much like themselves as possible. They might be willing to throw in a single 'fantasy' detail like a tail or elf ears, but by and large they want themselves in the game.

2: People who want their character to look as different from themselves as possible. This includes opposite gender, and even purposely avoiding the game's 'human' stand-in race.

3: People who don't care about the above and just want whatever looks the coolest to them.

[CainCrimson]

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

[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.

[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.

[MsQi]

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

Well that should put this to rest.

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[Rita1989]

Well that should put this to rest.

/thread

Except bots and most rmt are 100% male and probably have more players on the lodestone then real ones that's why EU and NA are off compared to jp

[MsQi]

Except bots and most rmt are 100% male and probably have more players on the lodestone then real ones that's why EU and NA are off compared to jp

Oh, i'm sorry, your perception and conjecture are far superior to SE's statistics.

[HyoMinPark]

Oh, i'm sorry, your perception and conjecture are far superior to SE's statistics.

What they’re saying is that SE’s statistics include RMT bots. That’s why they have males projected higher—most RMT bots are the generic Male Hyur Midlanders, though I do see a lot of the THM bots as male Lalafells.

[Recaldy]

Because I wanna look at something pretty cause pretty doesn't exist where I'm at? Elf ears too while I'm at it.

[Skivvy]

I don't enjoy playing as the opposite sex. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯