Hey, before I start, again I can appear an ass, do call me out if I overstep. OK? Here we go.
"How many characters do you like" is a whole 'nother topic. And "largely" copy pasted seems a bit of an exaggeration when it just seems to be a repeated scene between the two sisters.
Incorrect, we just saw with the new Stylist characters added to the "FloofHaus" as they like to call it, that TOBS cloned Miko content.
See Basty96's post on this matter here:
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At a rough glance, there's...29 recurring
named futa encounters in the game.
I stopped counting the females at double that. It's still not even close, no matter what criteria you use. Important characters, permanent characters, battlefuck, non-battlefuck - the ratio is between double and triple in favor of females.
How many of those got front page splashes on the website? How many of those female characters are plot relevant? I do not dispute the numbers of characters, I dispute their level of value based on effort put in, relevance and level of promotion. And this is about a thing that is exceedingly rare in nature, being represented in the ratios that homosexual content should be realistically represented.
This is getting into opinion territory, but I'll bite here as well.
Yes, this is all opinion territory, let none us delude ourselves here, I am arguing an opinion based on the information before me as are you. I acknowledged your numbers based on the factual element of them, challenged them on their interpretation.
The most energy? Easily female characters. Tobs has written, as mentioned, one futa. Of Savin's three companions, the one that gets the most attention by far is the female one. Wsan has written more for Brienne than any other character (though he has written three fairly in depth futa).
Excluding copied and pasted content. And when it comes to companions I will concede the bias, I had thought of including that in my previous post but couldn't work it in. But when it comes to companions and their level of content we are really talking about two companions only, Cait and Brienne. They have far more content than the rest put together. And of those Cait has been getting less focus over time, as I demonstrated in the Cait watch posts where at first she was pivotal to the story, and after winter city she dropped off the face of the earth. Companions as a catagory do not mean much, most only have content on par with the more complex "settled" NPCS, and the most complex of those in Berwyn was a passion project that just got axed.
All the marriageable character characters so far? Female. All the ones planned? Mostly female, and two males.
Characters you can go on dates with? All female.
Characters you can have an actual kid with that's an actual NPC and not just a number? All female.
Characters with in-depth preg content at all, vastly bent towards female.
Really, there's little to no romantic content for futas in this game at all. Valencia is it, really. And if you really want to stretch the definition of romance...maybe Evelyn and Arona?
True, and an interesting and strange point. While the NPC kids mean little right now because of the three of them only one has any actual content (I know Freja has some, but they amount to several uninteractible one-off scenes). If I could draw a conclusion from this it would be that the writers treat Futa's as pure sex symbols and alternatives to male characters, as such they fill the roll of male characters in a world designed for male players. As such they are seen more as sexable rivals, and get afforded the screen time male counter parts would be given.
This is also removing the context in which the characters are introduced. Yes, out the Marefolk villiage, only Atani is mariable, but she is surrounde BY futa content. Her guards are futas, her mother is futa, you go to the wedding and you are reminded that all of them have horse cock save the bride. The other marriages? Centaur wife, has no bearing on events and the villiage has no value save recruiting the party pack-mule. Kiyoko is reviled in this community and falls squarely into TOBS's content, so yes, as a matter of preference, she is devalued.
Heck, just glance at the changelogs. Run through them and note how often they actually include content for futa characters. Pretty sure entire months have gone by with nothing.
Sorry, no, I've just gone through the website to check this and no. Every month back to the start of 2020 (Where I stopped because it's geting late and I wish to sleep) has a splash image of at least one futa character or an update that added to one. Bear in mind that batches of NPC's, like the brothels and centaurs, include at least one futa.
I do not think that there's is any actual way to interpret futa as the predominant sex of the game.
And saying it should be "a rare minority fetish set of characters" seems to be personal bias. Again, by all available evidence, the fanbase of this game loves futa.
The idea that the thing the fanbase has clearly indicated they are massively in favor of should be rare seems a bit misguided.
There are very few futa games on the market at all that aren't just straight up low-effort crap that's not worth anyone's time...so it seems a bit cruel to begrudge the factually small amount that this game does have.
(Sorry about the double quote, I've tried to fix it, I don't know why it keeps inserting it).
Should we run a poll here and see what numbers that gives us? Put a survey before two different audiences and get two different results. Was new coke good or bad?
Their surveys are served to their existing, paying, audience. People who have a vested interest, and have been exclusively filtered out from their total audience, IE everyone who doesn't continue to shell out Patreon money.
To justify my point on scarcity further, Savarra was meant to be a a more grounded world, yet it has more futa content than the original game. Hell, be your own numbers it has more futa's than there are homosexuals in the world (if we extrapolate your ratios, who conservatively number 1 in 10. I am not arguing there is a one to one for all. But that an over-representation of something extremely rare is highly noticeable.
As for futa games on the market... I think we can both click the futa tag at the top of this page and disabuse that notion.