Why are female survivors much more popular than male?

Female survivors. Even though the movement is the same, male survivors look like they're running slower than the female. It's like playing between shadowborn and not. And I like my shadowborn.

Yeah that's why I mentioned I always thought I was imagining it. But seeing other people comment on it has made me wonder whether it's actually a thing. It could still be just in my head!

Cause they are all beautiful and there is no cake shaming in this house.

Wonder if it had something to do with most older games having male protagonists and so people just fell into that preference?

So the primary example back then was World of Warcraft where players could choose the sex of their character. I barely ever played WoW so I'm just going off of what the presenter did as surveys of the gaming population, but his results was that players viewed female characters as weak. At the time I disagreed with him, I think we tend to overthink these things, but like I said I know very little about WoW.

I still remember as a child playing the original Super Metroid (showing my age) and how it blew my mind when my dad told me the protagonist was female

It's even more of a mind blow would you find out after beating the game. Given how clunky graphics were at the time, my seven year old brain was wondering why Samus was some kind of long haired surfer dude.

I'm not sure whether it's about caring more about female survival than male, like I think the Final Girl trope was more about the perception of women as weak and vulnerable

I think those two things are connected. We care more about women because as a society we've been conditioned to see them as more vulnerable, even if in the fictional scenario its not at all true.

I mean...

But also Jane has other benefits putting her in a tier of her own in power.

(Most 😅) of the female characters are small, some even very small like Nancy.

This gives the benefit of:

• Perhaps the biggest benefit - the illusion of a smaller hitbox. The illusion can cause killers to not go for a close call swing since they think they wouldn't get the hit.
• Since they're small it is easier to hide with them.
• If you're chasing a chonky male survivor like David with a big Jacket (as an extreme example), he's going to be visible for longer when going around a corner in a loop. As a female, your character model disappears around corners faster in comparison to males, simply due to the size difference. This means females can be harder to track in a chase.
• From a survivor players POV, a chonky male survivor takes up more of your screen. This makes it feel as if you have a smaller FOV. As a small female you can technically see more of your surroundings, even though you do not have a bigger FOV. For me, the difference is massive. It feels much nicer playing as a female character for this benefit alone.

Men, generally, are taller then women on average.

Be pretty difficult to suspend your disbelief if every survivor was exactly the same height. There's already differences in height between those of the same gender anyway (Feng is noticeably shorter than most of the other female survivors, for example).

I did not say that it needs to strictly adhere to the rules of reality. The whole concept of the game breaks that quite handily.

Yes, short men exist, as does tall women. That's not something you really need to point out.

Freddy, Ghostface and Trickster are on the short side. Some survivors are outright taller then them, so it's not like BHVR isn't aware of the phenomenon.

My original point was that you said the male survivors are "much too tall", to which they really aren't. The majority of the killers already tower over them after all.

I play whatever survivor I find likeable. Their sex does not matter to me, and neither do their cosmetics because I do not have hundreds of dollars to waste on virtual clothing. I go with whoever seems like a nice person whom I would root for to survive if they were in a horror movie.

Traditionally, female characters are seen as more "neutral" or "warm" than males, whether in fact or just perception. Male characters tend to be more aggressive or stand-offish by design or perception.

Female players gravitate to them as both a feeling of being "safe", plus relatable, and can be viewed sexually.

Male players gravitate to female characters either sexually, prefer a sense of safety, or just not wanting to be always-on aggressive.

Then you have things that can be more mechanically/visually useful, such as female characters tend to be of shorter stature and less bulky to enable hiding better.

Lastly, there's the cosmetic standpoint. Female characters in general almost always have more cosmetic options than male characters. So if you like to play dress up with your character, it's a solid bet picking a female character.

Yes, I need to point out because there is no representation for these type of short men. If there was a short male character with a regular voice volume, I am sure that he would be more played than any other male character.

I'm trans and being able to play as someone that better represents who I am is very important to me. That's it.

This is same for me. I also just love badass women as well. Particularly if they're from a franchise I like. I'm a Yui main I just love how much of a badass she seems to be but how kind she is too. I don't really like most of her cosmetics so I might chnage to someone with better cosmetics but is if I find them attractive. Survivors are just skins so its just really whoever you find asthetically and just generally pleasing.