Racial distribution, July 2021 (Luckybancho)

[Shougun]

While I mostly agree with you, I'd argue they actually did Hroths dirty, or rather, started with the wrong foot, since it's also kind of a "nobody's at fault" situation.

I mean, sure, they were never meant, let alone expected, to be a among the popular races, but it wouldn't surprise me roughly half of the people who Fantasia/created a Hroth switched to something else. Not only were they as neglected as Viera for the entirety of ShB, they're even more limited than them... in a game where appearances matter a lot. Why buy a Fantasia to change hair when you can just change to another race altogether - even I have considered switching back to Roe

Absolutely~ I've no doubt that the restrictions impacted the true number of players that may have been interested in Hroth (or Viera).

It's a bit of a weird fix, but personally I think they should allow hair bound to face races the ability to 'barber' their entire head then- just lock other racial features (like changing your race lol) behind the fantasia still. On top of that I think any mog shop related hair or hat should be ensured to fit the two races, of course everything work would be nice. . . but if it is really a challenge and it's the best they can reasonably do I think that would be two good bandaids to the issue.

[Wobi]

I knew Elezens weren't popular, but I didn't think they were this unpopular D:

Yeah, we’re pretty rare but I’ve made some converts lately. Also this confirmed that quite a few more of us on Crystal as I expected.

[Halivel]

You cannot fetch all the information on the lodestone in a single day unless you either have access to one of the databases it uses or have thousands of dollars to throw at this every single month.

As far as I know, they have never delved into the technicalities/limitations/bugs that come with scraping data off the Lodestone, which is very problematic when you're sharing data with other people. Their numbers are definitely inaccurate, but they are probably reliable (good faith).



Here's one Lodestone bug for example:




https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...&house=&order=
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4398528082169/

Look at the member count in both pictures if you haven't noticed...

To be fair:
- Lucky Bancho doesn't post his reports monthly. He does it once per 3 months.
- We don't know how exactly he fetchs this data, so we can't say if he does it in a single day or not.
- It takes several days to form report itself (data was aquaired at July 13th, but report was posted at 18th), so by the moment report is public it's already a little bit outdated.

That said, I think there're no ways to get 100% correct data anyway - the only people who has it are SE themselves. Reporters like Lucky Bancho just provide us some general data that helps to understand the direction in which the game goes with some trends in content and other things. So yeah, it's an estimate with some errors to it (or innacurate bur reliable in a good faith, as you called it).

[Neoyoshi]

We really need Bunny babes to take over the lead, they are so underappreciated.

[Lonkkis]

Femroe reporting in.

[Atreides]

Wow there is a real Lalafel infestation on the Japanese servers.

[Hysterior]

Not surprised that female Miqote and Au'ra are the most popular, clearly the ones you see the most of everywhere.

However, very surprised that Hrothgar passed Roes though with all the limitations they have...
When you see the Female Roes, you do understand SE for not really wanting to create female Hrothgar.
I think that this race/gender combo will be the least played (unless they look REALLY cool)

I like seeing these census

[Ayuhra]

The elezen thing is sad.

I just race changed into a reptile so that is one fewer elf for now. I swear if they gave elezen slightly bigger heads and more fluid animations they would be popular.

[Lauront]

I hope they do. I normally play elves myself but their proportions and animations put me off, so even with the clipping and hips I like lizard men better. And of course midlanders.

i think hrothgar would have been better received if they were based off of the highlander body rather than the roegadyn body, and if their faces didn't stumble too far into uncanny valley territory. their faces range from dopey, uncanny, and ronso-like. ronso would have been a far better direction to take them. i don't have anything against roegadyn players, they just seem like victims of rushed development. they made them too wide and armor just stretches and contorts over them

It always struck me as odd that they used one of the least played body types for them. I was hoping for something closer to Byakko, particularly given that this would've been closer to the Ronso body type too.

[Eien713]

The elezen thing is sad.

I just race changed into a reptile so that is one fewer elf for now. I swear if they gave elezen slightly bigger heads and more fluid animations they would be popular.

I 100% agree with the head thing. I don't mind the animations that much, but the anatomy/proportions part is awful (T_T).