[Suggestion] Paid Race Change Program.

[Eldwir]

Hello Square-Enix.

I've been, like many of your gamers, playing Final Fantasy XI for a long time and for many or few reasons, we started our game prefering a race over another.
However, with time passing and experiencing more and more content of the game, some of us, may have noticed that the race they were playing wasn't the one that they really wanted.
May be aesthetic issues or Stat-related preferences, some may want to be a Tarutaru over an Elvaan or a Hume over a Mithra and vice versa.
Being one of those players, that sadly, after having took a conspicuous number of Jobs to level 75 and so many others to level 90, after the level cap increase and of course after having completed all the Missions of all the storylines of the game's expansions, it would be pretty much a disaster to restart just because of aesthetic or Stat problems. Not to mention equipment transfer, Rare/Exclusive items and of course, access to many areas, Conquest Points, Imperial Standings, Allied Notes, Cruor, Dominion Notes etc...
Reason why I am suggesting, today, a PAID Character Race Change Program, very similar to the Character Reactivation one.
Allowing us players, unsatisfied of our character's race, to change it to another and as well customizing the features such as Gender, Size, Face and Hair color for a certain amount of money, like a World Transfer.
I am pretty much sure that you've had, in the past, suggestions like mine, reason why I am sure many may have already incited you to introduce this kind of service, either through GMs Calls or Email or Customer Live Chat support.
So, here I am, posting it for (maybe everyone) who had my same idea.

Thank you for reading. Hoping to see the suggestion implemented very soon.

Eldwir.

[Vimechue]

Absolutely fantastic.
I've been waiting for ages for someone to post something like that.
(Actually I think in my GM calls I also mentioned that sometimes, but never had the concrete chance to post it somewhere).
Great ! I have my 10 Lv90s and I am very tired of being a Taru . And also the incredibly huge number of Rar/Ex items and stuff I'd have to re-hunt if I were to restart a character. And all those Allied Notes ><; I got goosebumps....
I would like to change to Elvaan as soon as possible but without a service it's not going to happen.
Hoping for SE to hear our plea !
Hehe cheers for the post !

[Eldwir]

Ahh I knew someone would've catched the idea too :] !
Just wishing for Square-Enix to actually read this topic now, haha.

[Vimechue]

Hmmm, probably it's the word "Paid" that people do not like much but in many other games, optional services aren't free, so why would SE make free of a "vanity" service like this one ? It would be stupid no ?

[Kawar]

Hmmm, probably it's the word "Paid" that people do not like much but in many other games, optional services aren't free, so why would SE make free of a "vanity" service like this one ? It would be stupid no ?

agreed i hate the idea of paying for it. but I understand it and agree with doing it if its needed.

we all ready pay to move to new servers so why not help keep the game alive if we had to pay for a race change something like 5-6 dollars i could live with.


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I remember at Fafnir/Nidhogg BRD/SMN Galka's did not have the MP for AA. But yeah a galka could play SMN just fine, they just had less MP so it could cause problems for them sometimes, but it wasn't impossible haha.

I also remember taru PLD's having amazing MP and loved exping with them because they could heal themselves so much better and never ran out of MP. Race stats back then made a pretty big difference. I was impressed SE managed to do that, but now they took it away no?

They did not take it away really. Its just that thinks like +VIT in my case cuss i am a PLD matters very little now when I can have a full DT or near Full DT set and it works better then 3-4 VIT gives 1 more def point.

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This is exactly what I did too. I picked a Hume because the guide book I got said they are basically a jack of all trades. Now that they changed the race stats and it's not like it once was, I'd rather be what I originally wanted to be.

It's high time they give this as an option.

Mistake please explain a little more my friend. Yes I am Hume and I agree I did it as the safe bet as well as at the time i feel like it was the best over all race. I still feel that way about the race but being able to change to a little guy for a month and then go back would be nice. I chould try out the path of run out of mp your crazy type of thing.

BUT I CANT LOSE ALL THE WORK I DID ON MY GUY AS IT IS NOW THOUGHT

[Eldwir]

Agreed. Reason why I specified "Paid".
Of course the topic was created for the ones who are willing to undertake a race change but certainly not for free.
Cmon Square-Enix, read read read this ^^; !

[Nidhogg]

I'd pay for a name change as well.

[Atomic_Skull]

Race Change {Yes Please}

You actually dug this up and necroed it?

[Tidemaker]

I'd pay for a name change as well.

You can sorta do this already via world transfer, if you transfer your char to another world then create another with the same name in the server you left, wait 3 days time before you can transfer back and it will force you to change your name as a character with the same name “your mule” already exist in that server. It’s the same concept when we were all force into a new server and had to change our names cause someone there already had it. Costly but if you wait until discount then it’s not so bad for a whole new name then just delete the mule and done

[Ecko]

I've been spamming messages about this forever and bugging countless GMs lol..I heard they were doin the forums and it's the first thing I wanted to post. It would be great if they offered a "one time change" for free or pay to do so like you suggested. It isn't fair that we're stuck and after years of play know what we want to accomodate our playstyle more and are unable to do anything. Not to derail but it would also be nice if they added a little more variety/customation options...