Changing race (game watch interview)

編：　種族まで変えられるのですか？
吉田氏：　そこはどうしようか迷っています。可能ではあるのですが、さすがに昨日まで遊んでいた友達が いきなり別の種族は無いかなと。そこまでは許さない方が良いかなと思っています。例えば髪型とか色とかですね。もう一度気に入った目の色や肌の感じをもう 一度カスタマイズしていただいても良いのかなと思います

GameWatch - Can you change the race?
YoshiP - I am still undecided on that. It is possible but it doesn’t feel right when a friend suddenly has race change over night. Maybe I shouldn’t allow that much. For example for Hair Style or Color, Eye color, Skin Color those I believe are ok to be customized.

does this also include players from the current version?:(


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1.../edit?hl=en_US

The whole one time race change thing was mentioned waaaaaay back, and only once as something they may consider.

Sadly hearsay has brought it to the point where people are adamant that it was stated that is definitely something everyone will have one chance to do.

This is unfair yoshi and u know it :(,other than that i love u :p

It's kind of why I rerolled as a Lalafell, didn't really like my Elezen from day one, and even though this was a possibility, I didn't want to progress too far on my first character, if the option is not confirmed.

I am only behind on my crafts now, which I am sure I can get up soon enough.

I think its silly to add new options like female Roe, male miqo'te and female highlander and not allow us to change gender and race.

We have a slight disadvantage for playing the game prior to 2.0 which is a load of crap as far as I'm concerned.

Sure you could say well start a new character in 2.0 but then all the time I have spent on this character has gone to waste.

There's context for this quote that's missing (and hasn't been translated yet, and my Japanese is definitely not good enough to try to translate it), which is basically, he's talking about stuff like barbershops and server transfers and other meta-gamey services that they might offer.

They have now /definitively/ stated that people who are currently playing will be able to re-customise their characters completely when 2.0 comes out, on account of the new races being added in and the new graphics engine - he just doesn't want race changes to be an available option -after- that fact, in the same way that hairstyle changes will be an available option whenever we feel like it.

Everyone gets their one time race change, at 2.0 launch. Start pondering.

Personally, I'd never be anything other than a lala, though I may switch to dunesfolk since i'm a primary caster. I can't stand the viewpoint of other races. I rolled all of them on my mule account to check them out. I couldn't stand it in xi, and i can't stand it in xiv.

My first race was hume in xiv 9 years ago. I started in bastok. I got to level 10, and happened to wander by the goldsmith guild in search of a place to sell my crap. I saw a taru synthing copper ingots, and fell in love with how they looked. I deleted my hume and created a taru on the spot, and never looked back. I am heavily disappointed that they are doing away with that type of synthing though, those little arm motions are what made endless hours of crafting bearable.

Until I see the statement quoted with a link to the OP from Yoshi saying this, I am not going to believe it.

I think people are misinterpreting this. The way I understand it, we all get to change and customize our character again at the time of 2.0's release.

What Yoshi is saying here is, gender and race are not going to be allowed to be changed AFTER that.

Meaning you can still change your hair color, etc. etc. etc. whenever you want, but gender and race will be locked.

I am all for race changing. If you choose, you should be able to change your race, for a fee, i'm sure. I see no reason we should have less options.

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

Until I see the statement quoted with a link to the OP from Yoshi saying this, I am not going to believe it.

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It's in the 2.0 preview. Because the new graphics engine may make our character look different than before in a way that we might not like, they're letting us recreate our characters when 2.0 hits.

Looked it up, specifically it's page 8 of the 2.0 outline, in the Rebuild: Graphics section.

Estellios beat me to it but i'll leave the link anyway. :)

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

Until I see the statement quoted with a link to the OP from Yoshi saying this, I am not going to believe it.

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

Scroll down to the second slide that says Rebuild:Graphics Engine. It's written there, clear as day. The bottom of the slide says

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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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What are you guys talking about, saying things like "this was only mentioned once, way back."

It was specifically and clearly noted 4 days ago in the PDFs that we will indeed be able to change our race, gender, and features.

/thread

you guys should start a thread or just use this thread to push YoshiP and the dev team for that one time race change they promised.

JP side got one going :)

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Originally Posted by miqokini

What are you guys talking about, saying things like "this was only mentioned once, way back."

It was specifically and clearly noted 4 days ago in the PDFs that we will indeed be able to change our race, gender, and features.

/thread

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Note: The interviews happened 'AFTER' the PDF docs release :)

I think Yoshi-P means other than the one time race change we may not see paid race changes.

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Originally Posted by Nikita

I think Yoshi-P means other than the one time race change we may not see paid race changes.

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/nod if it's that then it makes sense but he brought this up when the interview was talking about current existing players. Wouldn't make sense if they allowed players who created character after the new FFXIV to be able to change style after. Unless he's talking about the barber stuff players requested way back where we can change hair style anytime.

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Originally Posted by Nikita

I think Yoshi-P means other than the one time race change we may not see paid race changes.

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This has got to be the case. I find it highly unlikely that he would make such a drastic change of mind in only 4 days or less.

You will be able to fully recustomize your character one time when 2.0 comes out, because they will be adding new customization options (e.g. new race gender options). They aren't going to allow it beyond that.

Basically, what has been said above. No paid recustomizations, only the one time one with the 2.0 release.

I think they should allow us to race change through a repeatable quest. I wouldn't want to be stuck with the same character for years like I was in FF11. but I guess people could always resort to *gasp* 3rd party tools like plastic surgeon to make up for where the game is lacking.

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Originally Posted by Sehro

編：　種族まで変えられるのですか？
吉田氏：　そこはどうしようか迷っています。可能ではあるのですが、さすがに昨日まで遊んでいた友達が いきなり別の種族は無いかなと。そこまでは許さない方が良いかなと思っています。例えば髪型とか色とかですね。もう一度気に入った目の色や肌の感じをもう 一度カスタマイズしていただいても良いのかなと思います

GameWatch - Can you change the race?
YoshiP - I am still undecided on that. It is possible but it doesn’t feel right when a friend suddenly has race change over night. Maybe I shouldn’t allow that much. For example for Hair Style or Color, Eye color, Skin Color those I believe are ok to be customized.

does this also include players from the current version?:(


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1.../edit?hl=en_US

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Since there will be new races added, I believe Yoshi-P should allow it. I know some people would have picked another gender or race/gender if it was available then, when they created their character.
As for the "it doesn't feel right", there are lot of things that don't feel right in the game at the moment. Things are being fixed, so should the race choice of players. :)

He only means after FFXIV 2.0 you cant change them, in the 2.0 info PDFs he said everyone will be able to change once due to new looks

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Originally Posted by Fear

He only means after FFXIV 2.0 you cant change them, in the 2.0 info PDFs he said everyone will be able to change once due to new looks

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Mmm don't think so if he did JP side wont have this thread http://goo.gl/LxJi7
Asking Dev team to allow the race change when 2.0 comes out.

I want to be able to change my race in v2.

God, if... they specifically stated in red that that'd be possible in the PDFs, and then went back on it, I'd be really pissed off.

Please, for the love of the Twelve and cute little moogles, let us race change at least once upon 2.0 being released. I really didn't think I'd have to go back to being worried about this. I -don't- want to play through the pre-2.0 segment and then have to throw away the character because it's the wrong race. I don't want to have to think about - no, obsess about this all through leveling a class to 50 on my current character. :|

see I was right :) YoshiP was thinking of not allowing race change for all the existing players.

here's copy/paste of translation.
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Good news :)
I'll just call NEW FFXIV as 2.0 in my posts... easier...

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田＠ドイツへ移動開始です。
Producer/Director Yoshida here - started heading towards Germany.

新生とインタビューで微妙に内容が食い違っていて恐縮です。
I apologize that the 2.0 (documents) and Interview had contradicting information.

新生による民族（種族）追加時のキャラカスタマイズは、仕様上は民族変更も含め、
すべて変更可能にしてあります。
ですのでそこは資料通りなのですが「前日までルガディン兄貴だったのが、
突如ララフェル女子に！」ってのは、いいのかなあと悩んでいる最中なのです。
With the 2.0; Race change system is already included in the character customization so that part is same as the documents, but was wondering if it was OK to have situations such as "Till yesterday he was brother Roegadyn, now suddenly he became a Lalafel girl!"

ゲームポリシー的にどうしようかと（セカイカンガーにも近い）。
ですので、実際にその時期までに、皆さんのご意見も聞いて決めさせて頂こうかと思っていました。
フィードバックを受けて仕様を決める、という部分として、このスレッドを見て「なるほど」と思っています。
Looking at game policy was wondering if this was OK (would break the world concept)
So wanted to listen to every one's comments and decide on this.
As for this one, after looking at this thread it made me go "I see"
(players on the thread said it should be up to the players to decide)

仕様上は可能にしてありますし、変更しない人はしなくてもよい、
という選択肢が取れるので、UI上は変更可能にしておくのがよさそうですね。
The system is set so you can change, it's an option so if you don't want to change race you don't have to. In the UI feature the race change is already made possible so I think it's better to leave it as is.

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I can't wait for the re-customization of characters. :x I have 2 male hyurs who will be male miqo'te, and if the new graphics engine makes my others look strange I'll just touch them up a bit. :3