Paid race and name change?

The game doesn't have to be the same size because they don't have to use the same resources. FFXI is mainly so large because of the music files and the graphics models. Newer, more efficient formats exist now.

Race Change

I've always been a fan of having the option to change race, whether SE did for free via an npc, or charged via account management.

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Originally Posted by Runespider

The mobile game will be terrible, there is no way you can fit a 20-30 gig game on a mobile. It will just be some twee online rpg like all the rest, nothing like ffxi in anything but name.

Nexon running it is also incredibly bad.

Actually, this is entirely false as they have said it is essentially ffxi tailored for phones and has much of its content (and will eventually cover all the expansions. Downloading a huge game is nothing as long as you do it at home or somewhere there's wifi. Grandmasters is the game that's nothing like XI just using its characters. But since we can't even have that, it doesn't matter.

Nexon running it is not incredibly bad. I mean, they could have chosen better, but it's still SE's IP and they can tell Nexon what they can and can't do with it. Nexon gets a bad rap because most of the games it services are severely pay to win (Maplestory being the biggest offender but has been apparently dialing it back over the last year), but some of the games are actually good in spite of that. I suppose if you have problems things could get ugly because their customer service is crap, but then again so many people here complain about SE's customer service. Of course, we really don't have a lot of info right now,which is the real problem.