[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Eldwir]

Changing races doesn't seem like a good idea because people would abuse it to change their race to that which will benefit their class or w/e, and in the realism of the game just doesn't come out well, the same with sex changes.

Considering nowadays a Galka BLM can nuke as big as a Taru and an Taru WAR can deal as much damage as an Elvaan/Galka one, because the stats difference mean not as much as they did, when the cap was 75, I cannot see your point.

Assuming that even if they take in consideration the Race Change, I'm sure they'd apply a "cooldown" to it just like Server Transfer, of 90 days, which would prevent you from race change-exploiting that easily. After all they apply the same cooldowns in WoW Paid Services and some other games.
And...well about the sex change, people are free to do whatever they are pleased with in real life, can't see why not in a virtual 3D environment.

It's not going to affect you, me, him, her or the Manthra at the other side of the street, if you're concerned about guys going girls to exploit gamers for gil and equipment, it's happened before and it will keep happening.
Same goes with identity wipes if you have a bad reputation in your server, you can always delete your character, clean your friend list, create a placeholder character with the same name, use the Character Reactivation Service, have your deleted character restored and since there will be a name conflict, you will be forced to change it to another name.

So in other words, if you want an Identity Wipe, it is already possible, it already happens, without even changing servers.
Ethics, if it's that what you're suggesting with your answer...even if enforced by Devs and Producers, in MMOs..do not exist. Knowing SE wants possibly your blood other than just your money...paying for a Race/Gender/Face Change, is probably a very efficient way for them to make extra money and keep pleased a decent amount of players that were not exactly satisfied.

But yeah..."It's over the top".

[Camiie]

Changing races doesn't seem like a good idea because people would abuse it to change their race to that which will benefit their class or w/e,

So, what? If that's how they want to play the game it's not our place to judge. I don't really see how that's "abuse" of anything except their disposable income, but that's none of my business.

and in the realism of the game just doesn't come out well, the same with sex changes.

Just look at it as a magical retcon. Once you change your race and/or gender, to the rest of the world that's what you've always been. It's not much different than when you change nations and "your" (aka. everyone but you) memories are sealed. The game world seems to adjust itself accordingly. Your new nation readily accepts you and your old one forgets the over 9000 times you saved their collective ass and treats you like the worthless foreign trash that you now are.

Yet I full well support hair and facial changes. Even if I have to pay for it like when one wants to server transfer, I would gladly throw down a 10 or a 20 to alter my character's physical appearance again.

I would accept this only if they added new hair and face options.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Dunno but I'm glad they did. It is more likely to get implemented if it is shown to be a consistently popular request.

It's not going to happen and it's not a popular request. It's just a few vocal people who thought tarus were awsome and then learned otherwise. Just be thankful that you don't have to make a new character for ever job like you have to in every other game.

[Mirage]

I'm not a taru and I don't plan on changing my race. I still support a paid race change program whole heartedly. Happy customers are paying customers. Paying customers make the game stay online longer.

[Jackstin]

It's not going to happen and it's not a popular request. It's just a few vocal people who thought tarus were awsome and then learned otherwise. Just be thankful that you don't have to make a new character for ever job like you have to in every other game.

I think it is quite a popular request actually. It's not just a couple of people in this thread, there's a lot of people just chiming in to say they support this. I'm not saying its definitely mega popular, neither you or I know this, and if you say you do you are delusional. All I am saying is that I think it actually could be a popular request.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I think it is quite a popular request actually. It's not just a couple of people in this thread, there's a lot of people just chiming in to say they support this. I'm not saying its definitely mega popular, neither you or I know this, and if you say you do you are delusional. All I am saying is that I think it actually could be a popular request.

And I'm sayign that it's no where as near as popular as some people would want you to believe. If they did, I'd say it's have to be paid and the same price that it costs to change servers.

[Camiie]

And I'm sayign that it's no where as near as popular as some people would want you to believe. If they did, I'd say it's have to be paid and the same price that it costs to change servers.

As far as I can tell that's exactly what's being asked for...

[Aramyth]

I'd like a race change and/or a sex change. I have a female mithra character that I wish I had created differently, but it's too late to change her now.

I doubt this is something we'd ever see though.

[Jackstin]

And I'm sayign that it's no where as near as popular as some people would want you to believe. If they did, I'd say it's have to be paid and the same price that it costs to change servers.

And I will say once again. There is no way either you or I could know how popular, relative or otherwise, this request could be. It's pretty sad to decry this request purely on the basis of how popular it is, when in truth you have no idea.

[Xantavia]

I wouldn't mind this if it was a one-time quest that was a pain to complete. That way, people who really want to do it will jump through the hoops necessary to complete, and they would be fully aware it can't be done again.