Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Nandina]

Male Highlander

Pretty much the same thing with the females I would say to this. But I will also that a bald or buzzed head is something anyone can have, and because of that, there are zero textured hairstyles for male highlanders. No high tops or any of that, so when people say that you can get a pretty black looking character with them. I don’t see it.

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Male Midlander

Today was the first time I tried the male midlander, and this also had a nice curly style that was similar to the midlander female. The frohawk is very cute, and to me it illustrated they can do this. Does anyone remember Sazh from FFXIII? They did a beautiful job on him despite FFXIII being a Japanese game from a Japanese company, which to me means they have it in them. But this is the best one thus far.

I’m having technical difficulties with a pic I wanted to post, but I’ll edit it in when I get the situation sorted, so check back.

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But to this point:

Male Bunny Suit on GS NPCs

Gender Bias in Character Creation

Character Creation Has A Race Problem

Three different threads all advocating for representation in the game, even if not communicated in the best ways. Judging from posts we all seem ultimately to want the same things, despite wanting it in different ways...

I agree. With the Gender Bias in Character Creation title, it’s really no different from the title of this thread, just the issue discussed is Gender and not a race. People are clearly more triggered by the word race. Going by the gender thread I would never say things like “FFXIV doesn’t have a gender problem.” “You’re claiming SE is sexist” “It’s their game, they can do whatever they want.” “There are more than enough options for male costumes, you’re sitting here trying to turn this into some pseudo-gender war.”

In those titles swap out the words “problem” and “bias”.

Gender Problem in Character Creation.
Character Creation Has A Race Bias.

Same thing.

Saying something leans more heavily one way than another, is not me calling the game racist. Since math is the universal language, let me put it this way. I have a class of 20 students, and I have 17 pieces of candy. I hand out each peace to an individual, but there are obviously few students without. The students without don’t have a problem with me, in fact they’re happy to visit my class on a daily bases. They just point out that I forgot about them. (1) I’m not going to tell those students who mention it, that there are more than enough pieces of candy, and that 17 were the total amount that came into the bag, so they just have to be content because the manufacturer doesn’t have to add 20 because it’s their product and they can add however many pieces in the bag they want; (2) or that they have to see if the other students mind sharing. In the second scenario, all the students get a piece of candy, just not everyone gets a full piece like the others, which still illustrates an imbalance.

However, it could have been simple absent mindedness on my part, that I didn’t purposefully leave the 3 students out, I was just focused on that one bag of candy to bring, that it hadn’t crossed my mind to bring a bag with 3 extra pieces to compensate. Those students had a right to inform me of the discrepancy. Does this make sense?