Show the developers that you would like to reroll.

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Originally Posted by Agate

Change your character's name.
As long as you can see who they were before via the Bio or loadstone.

Change your character's birthday or patron god.
Not Sure - guess it goes with the fluff content though so yes more.

Recreate your character from the select screen.
Aye tottaly, If were going to look different and new i want some say in it.

Recreate your character from the select screen as a new race or gender.
I am fine with just a straight swap to new male's only or redo of current look more really, but no harm how ever they do it I guess

Change your character's starting city.
Change your character's Grand Company.
No! - Those are Game choices not avatar ones, they are changing how we look, not the content we have. So these should not happen at all.

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As pre the Die idea above... Hell no for me..
Those people changing there toon can RP that out if they like and post pics on there blogs..
It is a cool idea, but as much as i was so freaking tempted to re roll male, Esk is Esk, she's staying i think, That's who i play in FFXIV and She is going to live!

If you want that memorial thing in citys (related to starting city not GC)
I'd be well up for two memorials those who fought and those who died, now that would be epic.

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Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

That would actually be pretty interesting. Where we'd all "die" and have the choice to reincarnate back as what we were or something different (of course keeping our levels, achievements, and items/gear like Yoshi promised). That way it would actually make in-game sense. It would also take away that odd concept that changing gender is any different than changing race.

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To me a death is the easiest and most obvious rout for Rerolling characters.

if you chose to stay with your current model then perhaps you dont die, your picked up and carried off to town by moogles or something to be rehabilitated.

Also consider this:
there is supposed to be disasters and such to explain the changes to the zones. Well any huge disaster requiring re-growth (trees/Gridania) and re-building is going to take a large amount of time.
during this time your character would theoretically age and be in capable of fighting anyway needing you to take control of a new character.
Thats how i see it being explained.

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Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

Why would changing gender be more shocking than changing over to a whole different race? Can somebody please explain this to me? Both fall completely outside of in-game logic in the same way.

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You know, the whole "changing gender" thing is actually doable in real life (albeit it's greatly stigmatized for no good reason), not to mention doable to some extent given Eorzea's tech level—the worshipers of Cybele, for instance, existed during Greco-Roman times, and they're hardly the only real-life historical examples of this. So I honestly don't understand that "changing race is more believable than changing gender" thing I've seen people spout in this thread—then again, I'm not exactly living as the gender I was assigned at birth, so I guess I necessarily see gender as being more fluid than most people would.

Personally, I think that gender should absolutely be on the list of things you can generally reroll, along with obvious stuff like face/hair, name, and I'll also say race should be something you should generally be able to reroll too, because it's a magical fantasyland where you could easily say "it's magic" as a way to handwave it away.

I love the ideas... After all, this is Final *FANTASY*.. we are only limited by imagination.

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Originally Posted by Agate

Change your character's Grand Company.

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Originally Posted by Aistaraina

No. We were warned multiple times this is a one time decision (currently).

Everything else I don't see a problem with. Personally, I would like to change the birthday of my character because I messed it up the first time around.

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I agree with both statements, Aistaraina. I think we were given plenty of warning that your choice of Grand Company would be final.

But I think we should have the opportunity to change the rest.

I also messed up my birthday, not understanding how the Eorzean calendar worked. That's something I'd like the opportunity to change.

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Originally Posted by Nabiri

Yes, that was promised to us. No, it's not out the window.

What Bayohne is asking/talking about now, is about changes being allowed AFTER our free "change everything about our characters"-ticket. He's asking if race/gender/name changes should be allowed after that. If people want to change again.

Perhaps I wouldn't have to explain this every page if people would read the thread. ^^;
But I don't like when people are confused/off-topic/missing info.. so, if I must, I will. ._.; lol

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I was merely highlighting the fact that people will get one more chance to 'get it right' so to speak.

Personally, I dont think purchasing re-rolls yet retaining stats should be allowed.

A Jewellery box to swap in/out earrings, zodiac stones - Hairdressers for hairstyles - 'Alchemical' solutions to remove scars, and reduce the effects of natural healing to show them off.

These things can be implemented into the game.

reroll everything else but grand company and original city-state. i WOULD say grand company and original city-state, but i have a reason not to lol.

I feel like the game is changing drastically at 2.0, we should get to too.

I'm going to say no to the Grand Company and original city-state because i can see there being confusion amongst the completed quests and story lines. I don't think that would be a simple switch, so i wouldn't want them to waste their time just so i could come from another city-state which to me seems almost aesthetic (which yes, is important to ppl but...). you'd prolly have to redo the quests line. as for the grand companies... they did warn us, but i guess it depends on how much these companies change. if by 2.0, maybe it would be a good idea to restart your grand company once. but i am assuming not.

I personally don't want to "reroll" my character but I do believe that players should be able to change their Gender, Facial Features, Race, and Name. One time only. I however do not believe that they should be able to change their guardians or their birthdays.

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Originally Posted by Mishakai

I love the ideas... After all, this is Final *FANTASY*.. we are only limited by imagination.

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i like this.

I support this thread.

I know I wish to remake my character if the options suite that I like, and I know PLENTY other people who would love to change their names and races as well as gender. By not even adding a micro transaction they are missing out on some much needed revenue. Please understand I support a first time free just the ones after they pay. By not allowing this they are merely going back and setting themselves up again to fail by losing players again.(I admit not most will be this extreme but still).

So please understand our desires SE you change everything on us, allow us to change with it.

As long as I'm able to change my character from a female Miqo'te to a male Miqo'te, as well as change their name (as it's a rather feminine-sounding name, at the moment), I'll be satisfied.

We just want a free chance to entirely edit our character once 2.0 comes... after tagging along to make this game better for 2 years we don't even get that?

No one is making a problem about free edit chance... just the devs after they promised us in first place.
Why? :(

I don't really care for the rest because I'm content with my character, but if they will be adding new hair styles I wouldn't mind being able to change to one should I like one but it seems it's intended to allow that

I doubt there will ever be a chance to re-roll a company or a starting city because you would be doing in parallel quests which were not meant for such a thing and gaining an unfair advantage over player who choose not to change either/or

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

I however do not believe that they should be able to change their guardians or their birthdays.

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Why? When we created our characters, we were told that birthdays and guardian deities didn't have any effect, but also that this would change later and that at this point we could change them - that "later" didn't happen yet, but i see it happening in 2.0

If they make the deities affect the game then I'd like to have a one-time change available, it doesn't really hurt the gameplay anyway (unlike changing GC/city)

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

He was talking about changing from a Roegadyn male to a Miqo'te male being relatively understandable ("hey you lost weight!") but that it might be shocking to go from Roegadyn male to a Lalafell female. ;)

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I can't tell the difference between male and female lala so it would be just as shocking to me regardless of what sex that Roe changed to in the lalafell species. Besides, who really cares if someone is "shocked" by a sex change. Sex changes have been occurring in the real world for years now.

As far as changing characters.... I'll all for race, gender, name, birthday etc.... but i think GC and City should be permanent.... Even tho i would like to change the GC i signed up to... As long as I'm given the option to change my character it self... then I'll be happy.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Just wanted to clarify just a tiny bit: The comment from Yoshida during the LIVE video was mainly geared toward being able to change gender, specifically. Not so much about being able to change race. He was talking about changing from a Roegadyn male to a Miqo'te male being relatively understandable ("hey you lost weight!") but that it might be shocking to go from Roegadyn male to a Lalafell female. ;)

It was vague in our Twitter post about it, so I'm hoping to dispel the misinformation now.

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What about from female Miqo'te to male Miqo'te?

I will reiterate my "Yes! Please, please, 2.0 can't come soon enough!" for the ability to change everything cosmetic about my character, especially gender.

I fully support this. I started @ collectors which was actually beta for me. I would love to have a chance to change my chara with 2.0, only once of course.

I'm a very big advocate of changing names as well.

It barely makes sense that people chose a race and may want to change their race and gender but wouldn't be able to change their name, unless they gave themselves a unisex name in the first place, but seriously, if we're allowed to change gender/race/clan we should also be given the option to change names as well, otherwise for me it's kind of all for not.

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It seems to me like there is an underlying issue about ethics or other strange personal views that is going over my head culturally. A reroll is a reroll. The point is, everything we based our starting decisions off of is changing because the game itself is fundamentally changing, so if the game is changing that drastically then people should be able to change their characters as well.

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this is exactly my opinion.

How feeble minded are you if you find it gamebreakingly "shocking" if your buddy decided to change from female lalafel to male miqote.
Again, the game is fundamentally changing so why not our characters?

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Originally Posted by Dreadnought

How feeble minded are you if you find it gamebreakingly "shocking" if your buddy decided to change from female lalafel to male miqote.

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Eh, it's not a simple case of being feeble minded so much as it is social conditioning to see male and female as two immutable, non-overlapping categories. The game world follows many of the same aspects of social interaction that the real one does, and the player character presents an online identity just as much as their real-life presentation reflects a real-life identity. So when people get used to, say, someone playing as a male hume and suddenly that player switches to a female hume (i.e. leaving a race change totally out of it), it's given a similar reaction people have in the real world to that sort of thing happening. Usually this is just uneasiness and aversion, but, very unfortunately, sometimes the reaction involves an element of hostility (verbal or otherwise). This is, actually, very likely the reason why I've seen a sentiment in this thread that a race change would make more sense or whatever than a gender change: There's nothing in real life to use as a heuristic to evaluate an online reaction to a race change, but there is for a gender change.

Now, I could say all kinds of choice words about how that's an unfortunate mindset and how I wish society would let go of cissexism and oppositional sexism, you can't really say someone's "feeble minded" if they've had those things indoctrinated into them by society from a young age and have a bit of trouble when they find these notions being challenged—in all likelihood, they've never had a reason to examine these beliefs in the context of someone who breaks their expectations. The feeble mindedness is when someone refuses to update their world view. I can tell you from experience that most people do actually get over their uneasiness towards gender fluidity after a bit of time adjusting to the concept.

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Originally Posted by Teia

Eh, it's not a simple case of being feeble minded so much as it is social conditioning to see male and female as two immutable, non-overlapping categories. The game world follows many of the same aspects of social interaction that the real one does, and the player character presents an online identity just as much as their real-life presentation reflects a real-life identity. So when people get used to, say, someone playing as a male hume and suddenly that player switches to a female hume (i.e. leaving a race change totally out of it), it's given a similar reaction people have in the real world to that sort of thing happening. Usually this is just uneasiness and aversion, but, very unfortunately, sometimes the reaction involves an element of hostility (verbal or otherwise). This is, actually, very likely the reason why I've seen a sentiment in this thread that a race change would make more sense or whatever than a gender change: There's nothing in real life to use as a heuristic to evaluate an online reaction to a race change, but there is for a gender change.

Now, I could say all kinds of choice words about how that's an unfortunate mindset and how I wish society would let go of cissexism and oppositional sexism, you can't really say someone's "feeble minded" if they've had those things indoctrinated into them by society from a young age and have a bit of trouble when they find these notions being challenged—in all likelihood, they've never had a reason to examine these beliefs in the context of someone who breaks their expectations. The feeble mindedness is when someone refuses to update their world view. I can tell you from experience that most people do actually get over their uneasiness towards gender fluidity after a bit of time adjusting to the concept.

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There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?

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Originally Posted by Sylvari

There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?

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The tl;dr version is basically that people have a knee-jerk freak-out reaction to gender fluidity (or at the very least don't have much respect for it) because they're raised to see gender as something you can't change, but for the most part get over it after a while when they can't otherwise avoid it. Also that the negative way society sees trans people affects how an in-game gender change would be seen.

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Originally Posted by Teia

The tl;dr version is basically that people have a knee-jerk freak-out reaction to gender fluidity (or at the very least don't have much respect for it) because they're raised to see gender as something you can't change, but for the most part get over it after a while when they can't otherwise avoid it. Also that the negative way society sees trans people affects how an in-game gender change would be seen.

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I see..... My view in life is "Who gives a damn what that guys doing.. I am me, I do what I do."

I dont think it makes a lot of sense to not allow gender changes, especially when the new choices they are adding in are the missing genders.

I don't like the idea of the devs setting certain rules on what race is allowed to change to what race. I.E. hyur to hyur, roe to miq etc... Subtle, or major, the change is a change nonetheless and should be an all or nothing, really.

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Originally Posted by Krausus

I dont think it makes a lot of sense to not allow gender changes, especially when the new choices they are adding in are the missing genders.

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Omg. Exactly.

Vieras should have been a playable race in this game.

For everyone mentioning Grand Companies and how they explicitly stated it as being a "one time choice," it doesn't really matter. Everything else was a "one time choice" when you made it too, whether the game told you so or not. They wanted feedback on rerolls, so let's keep giving it to them.

OKay if given the choice to reroll I would take full advantage and change my everything but my sex and race. I've made an alt that I like better then my main now and wouldn't mind changing my main to look like that.

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For everyone mentioning Grand Companies and how they explicitly stated it as being a "one time choice," it doesn't really matter. Everything else was a "one time choice" when you made it too, whether the game told you so or not.

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We aren't getting new grand companies though. A lot of people would have picked X race of Y gender if it was available. All the companies are there from the start so you know what you are getting. If we DO get new companies then yes we should be able to pick a new one.

Howdy! I think this might only be my second appearance on these here forums (I'll be working on showing my face around here more, I promise!), but I come bearing some pretty good news :)

Along with the change to the new graphic engine in 2.0, we announced that it would be possible to change your character's appearance. After that we received a great deal of feedback requesting to be able to change race/gender, as well. After looking at all of the feedback we received, we have decided to allow a one-time change of the following when 2.0 arrives:

• Appearance
• Race/Clan
• Gender

Some of you may be wondering about the possibility of changing character names, since we're allowing the change for gender. Due to some data-related issues, we will continue to discuss and look into possibility of character name changes.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy! I think this might only be my second appearance on these here forums (I'll be working on showing my face around here more, I promise!), but I come bearing some pretty good news :)

Along with the change to the new graphic engine in 2.0, we announced that it would be possible to change your character's appearance. After that we received a great deal of feedback requesting to be able to change race/gender, as well. After looking at all of the feedback we received, we have decided to allow a one-time change of the following when 2.0 arrives:

• Appearance
• Race/Clan
• Gender

Some of you may be wondering about the possibility of changing character names, since we're allowing the change for gender. Due to some data-related issues, we will continue to discuss and look into possibility of character name changes.

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Very good news.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy! I think this might only be my second appearance on these here forums (I'll be working on showing my face around here more, I promise!), but I come bearing some pretty good news :)

Along with the change to the new graphic engine in 2.0, we announced that it would be possible to change your character's appearance. After that we received a great deal of feedback requesting to be able to change race/gender, as well. After looking at all of the feedback we received, we have decided to allow a one-time change of the following when 2.0 arrives:

• Appearance
• Race/Clan
• Gender

Some of you may be wondering about the possibility of changing character names, since we're allowing the change for gender. Due to some data-related issues, we will continue to discuss and look into possibility of character name changes.

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Sweet, Thanks for the update!

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Originally Posted by Camate

Howdy! I think this might only be my second appearance on these here forums (I'll be working on showing my face around here more, I promise!), but I come bearing some pretty good news :)

Along with the change to the new graphic engine in 2.0, we announced that it would be possible to change your character's appearance. After that we received a great deal of feedback requesting to be able to change race/gender, as well. After looking at all of the feedback we received, we have decided to allow a one-time change of the following when 2.0 arrives:

• Appearance
• Race/Clan
• Gender

Some of you may be wondering about the possibility of changing character names, since we're allowing the change for gender. Due to some data-related issues, we will continue to discuss and look into possibility of character name changes.

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Thank you, this is fantastic news! While I don't plan to change my name when 2.0 rolls around, I hope it's allowed for those who feel their current names don't fit their new gender/race change.

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Originally Posted by redmage

Thank you, this is fantastic news! While I don't plan to change my name when 2.0 rolls around, I hope it's allowed for those who feel their current names don't fit their new gender/race change.

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I concur with this suggestion.

Yaaaaaaaaay!

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

I find it funny a dev necro bumped a 1 month old topic for this :p

But it's a good start, I'm glad to see they'll allow gender change at the least. I'm not too concerned with my name since I made it a bit androgynous, but I know others may still want to see this and I may never know myself if I want to alter something.

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Just goes to show you that they are making sure everything is taken in to consideration.