[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Laurion]

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

I'm guessing then that Galka would be changed into a Mithra with that service? That or they make female galkas for XI..

[sc4500]

main reason is game not free to play and there afraid make money and alienate people if that have to pay real money for race change or other customized characters since were on paid services should be free, and only thing that make people happy would be if would be able to pay millions gil to change all the appearances.

[Jackstin]

People are only suggesting paid change in desparation. If SE were truly worried about alienation they would offer ot as a free service, but limit it to once a year or whatever.

[Kiyomi]

I Have 2 char lvl >.< took me a while but i haven't been playing long either but it would be nice to have race change alot of friends complain about it GL on it guys and yes lvl a new char is a pain in the you know what ^_^

[Camiie]

main reason is game not free to play and there afraid make money and alienate people if that have to pay real money for race change or other customized characters since were on paid services should be free, and only thing that make people happy would be if would be able to pay millions gil to change all the appearances.

World of Warcraft. $14.99 per month subscription fee. Race change at $25 per use. Millions more subscribers than FFXI and FFXIV could ever hope to have (combined).

[angeleus]

Hi...ok this is my first time in forum so after more than 5 years playing and 3 chr 2lvl 70 hume and galka and 1 lvl99 tar..the point is after starting as a hume i saw it lacking in mp as blu was a cool job....so i thought ok lets try giving it max str and def and make up for mp with armour and made a galka....noway...ok they say taru is the mp carrier so i went with it....bad idea...now that i can confront stats ...tarus lvl99 minimum mp extra (and with the hp str ecc merits capped)is no challenge against a galka lvl70 extra hp str ecc...so yes after spending literally hours(first 2 chr was before the GOV revolution...so old time exp crunching)i would like to chng my taru into a lvl99 hume,if SE had considered that with the merits all chr would have a sporting chance to solo,or at least fight NM for AF's then i would say ok reach lvl99,but its not the case.I'd consider even a high ...one time change fee,to continue playing,so SE as a long FF fan(played all the games since Snes)gives players more flexability.Nuff' said

[Jackstin]

Do race stats really make any difference? Early on, sure, but I see many taru Dragoons and Galka White Mages. It can't be that much of an issue.

[Zumi]

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.

Real Life != A Video game

FFXI is a game they can add some microtransations to add race changes other mmos have this feature to make some extra money. Give players a chance to change up their char if they get bored of their current one and keep all their progress.

[Mirage]

I would be willing to pay something like 10 dollars for a name/race/gender change, and 5 dollars for a face/hairstyle/color change. Name/race changes should probably be limited to once every 3 or 6 months, but I see absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be allowed to change your hairstyle within the same race as often as you damn like. It would just be an easy way for SE to cash in on indecisive/vain people, which is entirely fine!

Considering the size of the game's population, if even just 10% of the active characters wanted a hair style change just once during the course of the rest of the game's lifetime, that's potentially over a 100k dollars at the rates I suggested. I dunno how hard it would be to implement an automatic web-interface that let you do these changes, but I doubt it would cost a hundred thousand dollars to add it.

For those who are going to complain about "oh no then someone could change their name if they have a bad reputation, the only thing SE would have to do to prevent this would be to stick a "Formerly Oldname" notice on the character for like up to a month after their name change whenever someone /checked them. If you're then worried that people will just not play for a month, have the notice work with logged-in time instead. Something like idk, 200 logged-in hours, I don't even know.

Personally, I don't care if people use namechanges to avoid bad reputations. I'm just pre-emptively arguing against people who wouldn't want this to be implemented.

[Zerich]

tbh, it doesn't effect anyone except the player. it's a way for SE to collect extra revenue. I say this should be implemented.