Sell Fantasia on the Mogstation

[HurtigeKarl]

the arguments against it are the same arguments as to why we should never have an expansion. It gives access to gear and loot and new jobs that regular subscribers can't have.

What's wrong with selling a char or gender change? I don't wanna see cosmetic armor in the store, or cosmetic mounts. An appearance changer is a SERVICE. I don't mind SERVICES being sold. Services like Renames, Gender / Body / Race changes / or Server Transfers are perfectly acceptable ways for SE to make money without affecting the game negatively but improving a players experience. And yes cosmetic armors that are cash shop only do negatively affect the game or my experience but if someone gets tired of being a Galka and wants to become a Hume why not let them pay $10?

If you allow name changes you should also make the blacklist and ignore list and friends list carry over to the new name though so people can't pay away bad reputations.

Which is why expansions should be mandatory for people to continue playing. If someone gets tired of being a Galka and wants to become a Hume, they already got an option: make a new character.

There is a shortage to tanks true, but the endgame FCs will always have a good supply, those are the ones competing and mostly between those guilds. There is no race between avg player X and avg player Y, so your correct there. This is just more an small amount of people that enjoy the race.

The immersion thing goes both ways for RPers. Some will want no one to change, some will want to change. Not possible to please both groups 100% there.

For the fashion show... in RL your allowed to change how you look whenever you want, so your example doesn't work there.. If I want to dress up as a Miqo'te one day, walk on my knees and be a Lallafell for lunch, and put on some stilts and be a Roegadyn for Dinner I can. Then tomorrow I can be some kinda lizard wizard for a fashion contest!

And for hardcore PvErs, competing in PvP is laughable.

In real life, you cannot really change to a new specie over the night. I don't mind ingame-barbers, in fact I think they should exist so that you can change your haircut and facial hair. An "solution" I would accept, would be if you could ingame buy a "costume" that looked like another specie, but only if it actually looked like a costume .