Quote Originally Posted by Soge01 View Post
I think it's because people like us aren't loud enough, combined with the fact that there are far more players who play female characters in the game. Though something may change if we keep raising our voices and eventually become loud enough where the developers will hear us and they'll start making some changes that'll benefit male playing characters more.

Now that I think about it, I want the Dwarf head gear beards to be actual facial hair for male characters. Especially the Lalafell. :3
I think a lot of it can be attributed to the unfortunate fact that feedback just doesn't seem to be gathered from the official forum at all these days. Our community representatives are rarely seen and that may very well be due to having their hands tied. As it stands, it's far easier to get a voice heard over on Twitter by virtue of being able to respond directly to posts that are made by the official FFXIV account. I've been doing that lately to balance out the often one sided voices who are loud but arguably not representative of the community as a whole.

People have been asking for years for more tattoo options and facial hair for men. Yet in an interview, Yoshi-P expressed surprise which suggests that he wasn't told.

Which, in turn, begs the question - why was he told that people wanted a bunch of female outfits made available to use on male characters but not told that there's a pretty decent amount of demand for male characters to have more facial hair options?

As for the amount of people playing female characters compared to male characters, it's actually a roughly equal split on a global level when accounting for all major regions mashed together which is the figure that the development team should be looking at.