Not that I know of...the closest I can think of is WoW resetting talent points whenever they re-engineer talent trees for class balancing.
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No other MMO (That I know of) is structured in such a way that you can do absolutely everything on one character. Games like WoW you are restricted to your one character. But recently they did allow you to re-roll the character for its race/faction and keep your equipment and quests completed.
Considering that races in FFXIV have a completely negligible difference stats-wise, I really don't see any reason for SE not to allow us to respec race, as long as it's a *one time* service done only when new races/genders are implemented.
I doubt it will be one time only. Theres always the option for paid changes like WoW does, everything except your class. And multiple times, just having to wait a few weeks if i can remember to change it again.
I'm sorry for not giving the time to find out where it was said. But I'm pretty sure in a post where they were talking about adding new character creation options a mod said they're going to be adding new stuff and Yoshida is looking into the idea of making it so we'll be able to change our characters.
Plus people who played xi typically don't know how to use it. I hate the whole WTB WTS thing. Like how are people of other languages supposed to know? oh yeah people who played other mmos don't typically care about people from other countries because they have never played an mmo exposed to multiple nations at once lol.