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Let me clarify.
The problem is that there is a larger industry trend to relegate female characters to secondary or tertiary roles and to play them up for sex appeal above anything else. In isolation this isn't really a big problem, but in aggregate it becomes very obvious and very annoying for anyone who wants to see female characters obtain more prominent roles and/or obtain anywhere NEAR the build variety that male characters are allowed to have by dint of being the 'default'.
I would argue that the male and the female versions of Au Ra should be either different races entirely or at least different sub-races (the latter would actually be really cool because the differences between sub-races as they stand are very minimal) with roughly equivalent male and female versions instead of this huuuge divide. Of course this would be more work - twice as much, even - so it's not happening, but if such a thing did occur it would go a long way towards satisfying many of the detractors.
Mind you, I have no idea how much negative feedback a more bestial version of the race would have garnered. And neither do you. It's all speculation at this point. All we have is what's in front of us, and what's in front of us is not exactly the prettiest picture.
The problem is that there is a larger industry trend to relegate female characters to secondary or tertiary roles and to play them up for sex appeal above anything else. In isolation this isn't really a big problem, but in aggregate it becomes very obvious and very annoying for anyone who wants to see female characters obtain more prominent roles and/or obtain anywhere NEAR the build variety that male characters are allowed to have by dint of being the 'default'.
I would argue that the male and the female versions of Au Ra should be either different races entirely or at least different sub-races (the latter would actually be really cool because the differences between sub-races as they stand are very minimal) with roughly equivalent male and female versions instead of this huuuge divide. Of course this would be more work - twice as much, even - so it's not happening, but if such a thing did occur it would go a long way towards satisfying many of the detractors.
(12-23-2014, 01:37 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: FFXIV reportedly has more than 2 million subscribers world wide, and your best argument to show to me that there is more than just a vocal minority of people who don't like them is to show me a few posts that have less than 0.001% of the total user base showing their dislike?First of all, we only know registered users, not active subscribers. Secondly, yes. As long as the sample size is large enough we can extrapolate the general reception from there. Combine my above post with all the feedback from all the rest of the sites on the Internet and that gives us a pretty good idea, though obviously we can assume that positive feedback is going to be underrepresented due to the nature of the Internet.
Mind you, I have no idea how much negative feedback a more bestial version of the race would have garnered. And neither do you. It's all speculation at this point. All we have is what's in front of us, and what's in front of us is not exactly the prettiest picture.