[Suggestion] Ability to change race.

[Disguise]

If you want race change for the looks, there's 3rd party tools for that.
If you want it for the stats, it costs $1/€1 and some time doing GoV/Abyssea.



WoW doesn't have class change, this game has.

Third party tools will get you banned.

If you really thing the game is all about doing some GoV/Abyssea, then you need to actually experience the game. There's other content out there other than Abyssea, some people have seem to forgotten that.

[Camiie]

I can only speak for myself, but if I wanted to do a race change I'd be fine with a sizable fee and having to re-obtain RSE type gear if needed.

I can see the issue people have with name changes, but I haven't the foggiest idea why any of you care what race/face/size my or anyone's character is other than your own. Are you afraid that race changes will be mandated by your LS leaders for min/max purposes? If so, that's an LS problem not an SE problem.

[Rosina]

Plus stuff like this gives the game money. WoW lets you race change for a fee and you must pick a race with your class unless you start over. But in WoW it is easier to reroll then it is on ffxi. Fame in WoW is way easier to get then in ffxi. Hate to say it, part of WoWs popularity is from the merchandice they produce. Like stuff SE did but more. Like buy a plushi (so wanted one might i add) you get an ingame pet. They also sell mounts and various pets for ingame. Server transfers, have promotions for accounts like their new one on giving you an 80 (which is smart in a sence since death knight requires a 55+ character to make one) plus race change. This ontop of sub fee from its 11mil playerbase.

If SE did this for ffxi and ffxiv it could bring them money to do bigger updates or even add more expaxs and if they promote it right could get ppl to come back or join the game. Pretty much like the token gives you a free thing of inventory. Or the tidal necklace giving you the tidal body peice.

[Dragoy]

Changing one's race obviously would be rather difficult to do so that it would make any sense, but on a similar thought I have suggested somewhere before that there could be either more hair-styles and/or just the option to change them via a quest like 'Brygid the Stylist Burns' or something.

Completely 're-rolling' a character, while a understandable want, I have a hard time seeing it would ever happen. Personally, if I wanted a new character, I would do just that, create a new character. Obviously it would have zarrro quests done and all that, but that's part of the fun, it is a new character after all.

I don't remember what they decided on about characters in XIV after the 2.0 comes out. I do remember reading about it, and if I remember right, they had not decided yet if completely changing races would be allowed or not so even if nearly completely re-making a game might not involve such a feature, I don't see how this would.

Granted, it's a different game and so on, but even without that comparison, I have a hard time seeing this ever happening. Name changes, or even sex changes are not unusual, and in the end, it is a game, so it doesn't really have to make sense when it comes to money, which they would be making more for XIV ~cough~ I mean, for the good of XI, if they did implement at least one of these services (change of name, sex, race, et cetera).

So to put it more clearly, I would likely never use any of these, but I wouldn't be against it, either. Sure, it would not make sense, but if they would make players happy, goferit, I wouldn't really care...

On another note, no, third party applications, or 'cheats', should never be something required for a game, be it to enhance the experience or to gain unfair advantages and blah-blah but that's another story, for another place and time, or is it. ^^;


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[FrankReynolds]

If you want race change for the looks, there's 3rd party tools for that.
If you want it for the stats, it costs $1/€1 and some time doing GoV/Abyssea.



WoW doesn't have class change, this game has.

LOL your okay with people changing race by using third party tools, as long as you don't have to see it... What's the logic behind that (if there is any)?

[Zerich]

They already have this feature, it's called "Create a New Character".

[Zumi]

They already have this feature, it's called "Create a New Character".

Creating a new character doesn't keep all the progress from your old character which is what people would want.

[Camiie]

Changing one's race obviously would be rather difficult to do so that it would make any sense, but on a similar thought I have suggested somewhere before that there could be either more hair-styles and/or just the option to change them via a quest like 'Brygid the Stylist Burns' or something.

Not every feature they offer has to make sense within or tie into the game world. It is still a game after all, and I can think of several aspects of the game that already don't make sense within the game world.

Completely 're-rolling' a character, while a understandable want, I have a hard time seeing it would ever happen. Personally, if I wanted a new character, I would do just that, create a new character. Obviously it would have zarrro quests done and all that, but that's part of the fun, it is a new character after all.

People who say "just reroll" are just trolling. That's not a serious response at all. The only valid argument I can see against adding race changes is that it would cut into dev time that's already at a premium since they're so undermanned. That's more than likely the deal breaker right there, and that's fine though disappointing. As far as other reasons people have given, I'm gonna need a lot more reasoning to even begin to get behind those.


Like I said, name changes I can see an issue with. People could, at least to an extent, hide from their reputations. Of course, name changes could be handled under a separate process or not offered at all.

[Zerich]

Creating a new character doesn't keep all the progress from your old character which is what people would want.

<I'm sorry> <That's too bad.>

[Concerned4FFxi]

Could offer a one time onl name change, like the ability to retrieve an item that was lost once in the game. As for race change, whats so bad about it being like the transfer service and have a fee attached, after all this is a business right?