(09-11-2013, 09:10 PM)Aysun Wrote: Here's the thing. This race is not ours. It is SE's. They can do what they want with it. The Miqo'tes are being represented how they SHOULD be represented. It's lore that many of them are like that. Seekers are whores, pirates, bar-wenches, fishers, dancers, adventurers, yellow-jackets, Maelstrom recruits, and sisters in the desert. That is what they are.
Something I've been seeing a lot lately has been the 'modifying' of a races' lore to suit peoples' tastes rather than working WITH the lore to create an interesting character. If you don't like the race's lore, don't play it. Don't try to make it something else because you like how catgirls look and you don't like how SE made them.
/endrant
While I do agree with this, isn't it their job to cater to what we want? They're offering up their work to entice us into buying it. I really don't think someone is going to make an oozing flatulent octopus race and demand we like it or play a different game and put that on the market. Not that extreme of course, but the industry is about catering to the most people right? So they put in a buncha sexy cat girls, especially since the main target is Japan. They also probably knew most Mithra in XI were dudes.
I've always been one to complain about how sexualized, or girly, my characters are represented. (I refuse to use the sit on my Miqote <_<) I also know that I'm a small percentage of most female players so I deal with it for the most part. The sexuality portrayed by the NPCs in question I think is more fan service than actual logic and lore. There may be, or is, lore explaining why Sun Miqote are more promiscuous, and it seems the entire race is by nature anyway, but it's not worth discussing logically. All we can do is complain about how sex sells.
