Name Change when Race Change

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Originally Posted by Charismatic

Way to not understand what you are reading. Try again.

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Way to SO understand what I am reading. Try again. There's nothing to misunderstand.

You are essentially telling me that you want to be a Male Miqote, but your character name is "Patricia." Well, if you get to change your race when they come out, then you'd most likely be able to change your name too. My point is people should put thought into their names so as to not regret the name they chose later. Thus, I'm fine with making a one-time change available when a new race is added. But one time only, and only can change your name if you changed your race.

Name/race/appearance changes can be abused to mask your identity when you did something to piss someone off/get kicked out of an LS/whatever. E.g. incidents in FFXI of linkshell leaders "taking the bank and running." If they could change their name/race, they could easily escape the ire of the players that hated him for doing that. People who don't deserve second chances would get a second chance.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Way to SO understand what I am reading. Try again. There's nothing to misunderstand.

You are essentially telling me that you want to be a Male Miqote, but your character name is "Patricia." Well, if you get to change your race when they come out, then you'd most likely be able to change your name too. My point is people should put thought into their names so as to not regret the name they chose later. Thus, I'm fine with making a one-time change available when a new race is added. But one time only, and only can change your name if you changed your race.

Name/race/appearance changes can be abused to mask your identity when you did something to piss someone off/get kicked out of an LS/whatever. E.g. incidents in FFXI of linkshell leaders "taking the bank and running." If they could change their name/race, they could easily escape the ire of the players that hated him for doing that. People who don't deserve second chances would get a second chance.

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Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner on this but you do realize this is kinda dumb, right? Who on release knew there'd be more races coming? There's no precedent for it. People have named their characters based on the information they had, that information DID NOT INCLUDE additional races. Now, you might say they could have anticipated it... but you'd have to ask how they would. Once again, there is no precedent.

It was stated clearly in the pdf files released on the 14th that they will be issuing race changes in conjunction with the release of the new engine.

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Outline_EN.pdf

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The new graphics engine will cause certain objects to display differently than they do in the current version.
Because of this, we will allow all current players the opportunity to re-customize the race, gender, and
appearance of their characters upon the implementation of the new engine.

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Yes... but this thread is from before that.