Male characters are generally hotter than futas, however the type of person to play a male character is more likely to be clingy, emotionally stunted and insecure than the average futafaggot, who will take rejection of their character as rejection of the self, while futafags know they're degenerate digital sodomites who just wanna rape, plap, goon 'n coom, and know the game is swimming with bottoms so a single rejection means literally nothing to them.
That's why people plap futas over males.