Paid Name and Race Change.

Bumping the thread again.

The problem they may have with this is that it requires a pretty major amount of web based programming, that would interact with the game.

Might be good to mention how other games do this or how Square could offer it in XI with the least amount of work.

Probably the easiest method I can think of is to offer a post on the forum with pictures of faces and races and players can be charged via crysta to their account for the amount (or just add it to their next sub payment). They can do this race/face swap service on a set number of days a month and a person they employ or pay extra for those few days can manually change them.

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Originally Posted by Pixela

The problem they may have with this is that it requires a pretty major amount of web based programming, that would interact with the game.

Might be good to mention how other games do this or how Square could offer it in XI with the least amount of work.

Probably the easiest method I can think of is to offer a post on the forum with pictures of faces and races and players can be charged via crysta to their account for the amount (or just add it to their next sub payment). They can do this race/face swap service on a set number of days a month and a person they employ or pay extra for those few days can manually change them.

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Not really if a third party software can instantly swap the dats on your characters to look how you want. All you have to do is pay to get a non-client side dat swap. It's not THAT hard and the people in the you know what demonstrated this. However, I want to actually look different and people see it, hence a face change is something I want because my main has that dime a dozen brown hume hair, and I want to change her to have the short black hair (Najelith hairstyle)

But nope, SE is going to not even give us a damn answer, hell I'd actually like them to say no, at least they responded to us! At least they aren't ignoring us!

Giving it a bump

I want it as well... sadly no response :\

Getting outright annoying tbh.

SE please....I'm willing to fork over money just to change my main's hairstyle, 10 dollars I would do it, just to have my character's hairstyle changed. Please, the community is wanting it, why is it being ignored so much? You'll be making money off of this!

Name change and Race change is a great idea. There are good and bad when it comes to this.

The good part is that this help to avoid cyber bully. People that can't leave you alone in game and always telling other player false rumor about you as a person. People that will stalk you in game and attack your facebook or myspace. They can do this by starting up a new character and you won't know it's them but they know it's you. Ex boyfriend whom you don't wanna deal with anymore and doesn't understand no means no. Recently, there have been LS leader that make LS bank. Once that leader have made millions of gil in the LS bank that person take all the money and run away / jump server or once they fund their relic, mythic using other people hard work. However, there are good LS leader whom have real life issue and they need to disband LS because of it. In addition, they split the amount of gil that was farm by LS member "LS Banking" but there are more bad leader than there is good so LS bank in some cases are no no. There are people whom you lend gil to and they said they were going to pay you back but instead they do not want to pay you back and that same goes for item like Kraken club which use to worth more than 60 to 100 million.

If you are reading this SE please help us have race change and name change. The Bad Part I know by doing this we can't no longer detect that bad person whom we got on blacklist but I believe it's worth it. People are smarter now and they are aware of bad people in game. You can judge a leader by their action so finding a LS where you can fit in easily. If you do not want to lose your friends that's fine too and you can always send them a tell and let them know that you change your character name.

This will make SE lots of profits and imagine a Server full of Tarutaru lol how funny is that. There is nothing more funny and cool in FFXI than a Tarutaru =).

Time for a bump!

Bumping again~!

Bumping, gonna get an answer sometime this decade.

If you want them to answer the thread it's better to post things to get others replying too, bumping solo will probably just get it locked.

Still waiting for it myself...

I would pay to change race. They'd have to put a waiting period tho like you can only do it once a year or something.

Cheer necro bump ('ω')ノ

Or (and this would be awesome) add a hairstylist which lets us change hairstyles and color, but here's the best part, add MORE and I mean MANY MORE colors to choose from and add some more hairstyles. Remove this option from the PS2 version (have them see the default colors/hairs only) cause I know that the PS2 is gonna be the reason why this can't be implemented. :)

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Or (and this would be awesome) add a hairstylist which lets us change hairstyles and color, but here's the best part, add MORE and I mean MANY MORE colors to choose from and add some more hairstyles.

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I agree with them adding something like this, but not in place of a character recustomization service. It should be both.

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Or (and this would be awesome) add a hairstylist which lets us change hairstyles and color, but here's the best part, add MORE and I mean MANY MORE colors to choose from and add some more hairstyles. Remove this option from the PS2 version (have them see the default colors/hairs only) cause I know that the PS2 is gonna be the reason why this can't be implemented. :)

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The problem is also that everything is sort of tied together. eye color can't be separate from hair color, or any facial features, it basically all comes as one package deal.

It would be really cool if they redid chargen and updated characters models... but I bet that's also a lot of work and their quirky game engine can lag even on the newest computers. In the case of XIV's fantasias, they had that ready to go at ARR's launch so that legacy characters weren't stuck with only the old options (and it still took them a pretty long time to actually sell the things). XI... I don't think is setup with a change system at all.

But! That SE hasn't responded probably means they're considering it. Posts that get a "does not current have plans to" answer seem to get them pretty fast.

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(and it still took them a pretty long time to actually sell the things).

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The Mogstation (Account Management for XIV) wasn't designed to handle re-occurring payments for items like Phials of Fantasia, therefore the system took longer to set up (I'm sure along with the legal proceedings, and payment partnerships).


A temporary system was introduced in 2.3, but 2.4 will debut (I think this is correct going by the last Live Letter) a full re-occuring payment system.

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I understand limitations due to PS2/360 hardware, and outdated engine etc, but at the very least, allowing us to change hairstyles would be a huge plus. I picked one I'm not really happy with, and I've regretted it for years, but I'd never start over because of it.

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PS2/360 limitations wouldn't be a problem here, seeing as the "Character Creator" and "Hair Stylist" are/would be separate instances (much like the mog-house).

In ARR, the aesthetician (Hair Stylist) simply put you into a restricted Character Creation Screen allowing you to only adjust certain options, where-as a Fantasia flags your character on the log-in screen for an optional "re-do".

I wanted to voice my support for a paid race change token of some sort.

I've always bounced around in FFXI on race since 2003 when I started. I've played a total of about 8.5 years, and in that time I've leveled 3 tarus, 4 humes, 3 mithra. I don't do it to dodge people, I do it just because, well I like bouncing around based off my mood, but generally I've used one for an extended period (at least 5-6 months, 1 taru and this hume are several years old, the former being the oldest and used since february of 2004.)

In addition I realize doing so could be annoying or even problematic for the current system if done too often, so feel free to add a restriction, like 1 token per character/per playonline account may be used once every 6 months.

Atm I want to be a mithra, which might finally be settled as I feel quite strongly for my new mithra in FFXIV, but I can't just switch from my hume without losing oodles of time, gil, R/E equipment, and my only relic weapon (I'm a SAHM, i don't have the time to make the same one over and over again, there's several I need for other jobs.)

So i give my support in favor of adding a race change token (i'm not against a name change one either^^) and hope the Dev's have noticed the desire of the fan base.

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I agree with them adding something like this, but not in place of a character recustomization service. It should be both.

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You're right, why did I say "or" <---"and" is a better fit

I would like to see at least a character re-customization added, if not an outright race change. When I made this character, I made it to focus on mage jobs. Now, years later, I find myself using my samurai, predominantly. So I would prefer to re-roll Galka, since Galka samurai looks so much more impressive in the Eastern armor sets (IMO).

I do have a Galka alt, which used to be my main before CoP came out. It would take me at the very least six months of straight work to get him to the same point that my Hume is. I would much rather have that six months for other projects in-game. Please give us the ability to pay you for a race/face/name change!

I would like a new haircut. After 9 years, would be nice to change style for fun.