[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Camiie]

-This subject keeps getting necro'd every so often. I personally don't care if you all want to change name / race, but the 1st ls leader who basically swipes the ls bank then changes race / name to get away without repercussions will kill this feature once it is implemented.

Guild/LS Banks have been a scam since before FFXI was created, and their being stolen or embezzled from is nothing new. It's pretty much why they exist in the first place. This is a player problem, not an SE problem.

Personally I don't care for name changes either, but the name can still remain bound to the same player ID. Many things in life have the potential for abuse and misuse, but are generally beneficial. Just because someone could take advantage of something doesn't mean that something shouldn't exist if it will make a lot of other people happier more productive or whatever.

[Smeggles]

I would pay alot for a race change. Literally ALOT.

[Spiriteater]

I wouldn't mind if i could just change the hair... my character looks the same as my brother's and it sucks cause i made mine like years before he did..

[Reiterpallasch]

I don't really have a need to do this myself, but I fully support it and would hope they add it for people that want it.

Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?

Dude, it's analhelm. I'm pretty sure he logs in each day with the sole intention to spew verbal diarrhea throughout the forums in an attempt shit up every topic he can possibly post in.

[Llana_Virren]

We'll make a deal. Once we have the capbility to change a real live person's race, I'll support race changes. Until then, it should be as unchangeable in the game as it is in real life.

Man, how many times have you argued in other threads about how real world rules don't apply to the in-game world? ...I mean, I'm not surprised by the total disregard for consistency, so much as that I hope you don't expect anyone to take you seriously. If you do, you can turn in your troll badge now.

[Anapingofness]

I'm for race changes, appearance changes, etc.

If that is too problematic for SE to give us race changes, and it really shouldn't be considering this their you know, job but whatever, let's say that it is. Then I would propose to give us barbershops and appearance changes overall. It would be great if we could have actual options when making our character so that you know, people don't get annoyed with their character.

What would really help is if they tightened up the graphics so the character looks proportional. Have you seen how god awful the Elvaan females look in 95% of the gear? In some of the gear they look manlier than the men! (here's looking at you Monk AF! =D )
They did it with the special npc's in pretty much every expansion. Then again, SE is really good at showing off stuff that we can't have.

Really, most games offer these basic services and FFXI's character creation is really, stupidly, limited.
So yes, at the very least, we deserve to have a barbershop option that will let us change our height, face, hair, skin color, eye color, etc. I don't see how that is asking for too much.

[Anapingofness]

Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?

XDD omg. I love you for this.

[Jackstin]

If you wanted it at the beginning of the game, why didn't you just delete your character and make a new one?

No, you shouldn't.

What people SHOULD do is pick their race carefully knowing that it can't be changed.

We'll make a deal. Once we have the capbility to change a real live person's race, I'll support race changes. Until then, it should be as unchangeable in the game as it is in real life.

I don't understand. You're so reasonable and progressive on the XIV forums, and yet on this issue at least, you're extremely conservative.

You should definitely have the option of changing your race. It's totally unreasonable to say 'pick your race now, if you want to change it you have to start all over again, by the way this game is 10 years long so megatrollz to you'.

I can understand not wanting name changes, because you want to be able to watch out for players you know are trouble. But in a world where there are 12 different appearances, you do not recognise people by appearance, you recognise them be username.

It just baffles me that anyone would support a pseudo-punisment of a decision you made when you were younger, and in all likelihood, eager to actually start playing the game.

[Chilzen]

I wholeheartedly support a premium race change option, since I've actually lost a few pals that ended up quitting since they would roll a Taru, then a few months later complain about how they don't like the looks of the later gear on them but didn't want to restart a new character from scratch. One of them tosses out now and then that he would come back if SE ever took a progressive step forward and let him change from Taru to something less scrunched up on gear, but I have to remind him that it's not an option at this time whenever we have our XI nostalgia talks.

So yeah, SE likes money, people want to give SE money, so what exactly is the problem outside of some RSE and possibly some KIs for a certain CoP quest and a few others possibly? Just don't bother with the name changes, since that'd do horrible things to my blacklist and probably increase the GM calls due to people getting swindled one way or another.

[Reiterpallasch]

We'll make a deal. Once we have the capbility to change a real live person's race, I'll support race changes. Until then, it should be as unchangeable in the game as it is in real life.

So by that logic, you would be ok with someone getting an in game sex change?