[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..

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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).

[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 ^_^

[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.