Race/gender/name change choice

+1 as well. I fully support this. The OP needs more likes!

One thing I would really love for them to do if they ever consider doing anything like this, is to make it so that you can keep your race but get the stats of another.

In the current game Max MP just isn't very useful anymore. It's important for maxing out Alexander's potency but that's about the only thing it's good for. The longevity of MP is more tied to how much refresh gear you have rather than your max MP most of the time. Kinda sucks for the people that initially picked their race purely for gameplay reasons that are now nonexistant.

Just gonna leave this here...

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings,

I apologize that I can't say much but we would like to thank you for your suggestions to allow race changes as well as alter other character features. This feedback is being taken into consideration. :)

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That's so encouraging :D

*continues to furiously wave 25$ at screen* Race change option gogo!

Greetings!

We know that there has been quite a few requests from players to be able to change your character's race, gender, and name. While this is something we continue to look into, nothing has been finalized in terms of implementation or release, so we cannot announce any concrete details yet. We appreciate your patience in this matter and we'll be sure to announce updates as soon as we have them to share!

Thanks for the info, Oki. I appreciate it.

Thanks, Okipuit.

Thanks Okipuit :D

I reckon it'll happen when the game goes F2P.

Thanks for the feedback Okipuit, I think race and gender change would be a rather interesting idea, but the name change maybe not so much. I believe that too many bad reputation players out there would abuse it, changing their name after their current one has gotten too bad. Unless there was a way to publicly see Prior Names....

Name change is already possible. Its expensive and time-consuming, but easy enough for anyone looking to escape their reputation.

An easier, more legit name change feature wouldn't give any more power to bad players than already exists. But, it would allow decent players to escape awful names (Xxspehirothxx or Icantthinkofaname), with less hassle.

Thanks for the update Oki :) im happy to see that the development team is at least looking into it.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings!

We know that there has been quite a few requests from players to be able to change your character's race, gender, and name. While this is something we continue to look into, nothing has been finalized in terms of implementation or release, so we cannot announce any concrete details yet. We appreciate your patience in this matter and we'll be sure to announce updates as soon as we have them to share!

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I am posting my support for this change.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings!

We know that there has been quite a few requests from players to be able to change your character's race, gender, and name. While this is something we continue to look into, nothing has been finalized in terms of implementation or release, so we cannot announce any concrete details yet. We appreciate your patience in this matter and we'll be sure to announce updates as soon as we have them to share!

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Hope to see this in race changes... this would get me back into FFXI while I wait for 2.0.

It might break lore a bit, but if ever race/gender changes were to be allowed...

I would love to see male Mithras become playable.

Wouldn't stop the army of Manthras I am sure.

It'll stop them exactly as much as it would stop the army of female humes and elvaans played by males.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

It'll stop them exactly as much as it would stop the army of female humes and elvaans played by males.

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My main char is off-gender only because I alternate male/female whenever I have the choice of gender. And since my last char was a male in EQ, FFXI has a female char :D Then I made a male in Vanguard. Female in FFXIV. Male in Dragon Age. Female in Skyrim. Etc.

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Originally Posted by sweetidealism

It might break lore a bit, but if ever race/gender changes were to be allowed...

I would love to see male Mithras become playable.

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Server change breaks lore. BLU/PUP/COR Relic in Dynamis breaks lore.

At least with race/server change, you can say "a wizard did it," which is a hell of a lot better than the explanation (or lack thereof) for near-Eastern jobs' armor in Dynamis.

Whenever I changed servers i just pretended like I was accidentally warped to a parallel dimension. With the vanadielan time/space continuum looking more like a swiss cheese than anything else, that actually sounds entirely plausible!

What I really wish, without necessarily changing race or gender, is a 'barber shop', where you can at least change hairstyle and colour. Of course with regular new hairstyles updates.

But in this game the hairstyle is tied with the face look, so that cannot happen.

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Originally Posted by Sunrider

Server change breaks lore. BLU/PUP/COR Relic in Dynamis breaks lore.

At least with race/server change, you can say "a wizard did it," which is a hell of a lot better than the explanation (or lack thereof) for near-Eastern jobs' armor in Dynamis.

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Pfft, clearly the force of altana hired a bunch of immortals, pirates and clowns from the near east(and in the near future they'll be recruiting ricers and fabulous swordsmen) to fight their battle for them, but made sure to tell everyone to be very hush-hush about it.

Server transfers are just a invisible maw sucking people up.

That's the great thing about lore. You can have it change to accommodate whatever stupid thing is going on, no matter how contrived, and they'll convince themselves it's incredible storytelling.

Any more news on this? Im a returning player who would like to change my toon and name.

i agree why not be able to fix our characters more to our liking maybe a 1 time only thing or possibly once per 8 - 10 years of being on ffxi idk should be something they could do for players that have been loyal and made se and playonline so much success over the years ^^ You cant tell me that they havent made money over the years, or that it couldnt be done easily on their part.

Offering a race/appearance change would be fine imo. The idea to make all races the same statwise, and only different in appearance however is a terrible idea.

It'd be kind of nice, if only because my name's borked up (Blame CGing during the 360 Beta test, half asleep, no keyboard handy, and before they had fixed a text-size bug for HD TVs) but if I never get one, oh well.

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Originally Posted by MiriOhki

my name's borked up (Blame CGing during the 360 Beta test, half asleep, no keyboard handy, and before they had fixed a text-size bug for HD TVs)

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While I'm not sure that there will ever be an official name change service, I do believe you might be able to find an exception for yourself. Contact SE support, make a thread about it, and explain your case while asking for a special exception.

Changing a name is possible, GMs are capable of it (although not allowed to except in very, very special circumstances). A few years back when SE did the server merges they offered a one time name change after the merge for players who had chosen their names poorly when there was a naming conflict during the merge. I believe that you can make an appeal to the human element of SE's customer service, especially if the issue is only getting a few L and I letters swapped around.

When you make your case, be very clear what happened and why you want the change now, and even admit you never thought of it before. I think you might find some form of resolution in this matter that doesn't include changing servers twice.