What race are you?

[Makeda]

Neko... Er, Cat... er... Miqo'te...

Yeah... I like cats so... there you go.

Though last night I made a second character, one of the elves... whatever they're called. I absolutely hate elves in fantasy, but decided to give one a look here. They do look better once you've got one on your screen running around than they do in the character creator. Shoulders are too wide, neck is too long, and head is too small... but once animated these things are not as bad. I read somewhere a survey of race choices and it seem Neko dominates all other choices by a very wide margin - something like 34% of all characters in this game. In most MMOs, elves end up being over 50% of the entire character base (in WoW, they are between 70-80%)... Here, they are under 10%.

Popularity seems to be:

Neko --> Human --> Gnome --> Elf --> Ogre.
( Miqo'te --> Hyur --> Lalafell --> Elezen --> Roegadyn. )

Though the last two are pretty close.


That surprises me, I expected the small people to be last since they look so childish. And I've never seen a game with something more popular than human. That said humans are also over 30%.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...racter_survey/

Hyur Midlander 2232 13%
Hyur Highlander 1439 9%
Miqo'te Seeker of the Sun 3565 21%
Miqo'te Keeper of the Moon 2243 13%
Elezen Wildwood 541 3%
Elezen Duskwight 616 4%
Roegadyn Sea Wolves 629 4%
Roegadyn Hellsguard 3135 19%
Lalafell Plainsfolk 847 5%
Lalafell Dunesfolk 1406 8%

Looks like its even more extreme now:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1p59.../viewanalytics
But that Lalafell have fallen down to number 4 in popularity - more like I expected. With the Ogres moving up all the way to the number 2 spot.


The survey is flawed though. Its a poll. Accurate results can be found on the lodestone website by searching characters, but you'd have to do it with a LOT of filters and then tally it all because any result over 1000 comes back with just the first 1000.