Blizzard removing fee to change gender in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

[MagicAura]

Personally I don't understand why people have the need to mutilate their characters which they have used for years, just make a new character instead.

You don't really need to understand. All you need to do is respect their gender identity choices (whether in-game or in RL) and accept them for who they are without judging them.

[Jkap_Goat]

"Players can change their character’s gender at any time for free, thanks to in-game barber shops"

meanwhile here we have to pay 10 dollars to change the color of our eyes

your turn square enix

but this isn't WoW

[MagicAura]

Wish square added options to change eye color atleast

Isn't there an option in the inn room to change your appearance for gil? You need to do a quest to unlock it but i'm fairly certain you can change everything there. I used it once already and it takes you back to character creation options. Am i missing something here?

[Iscah]

Huh.

That's an interesting way to head canon Fantasia.

I never tried it but you can't change names? Why...? I don't get it. This is rough especially for people who likes to follow appropriate naming conventions for races.

Name change is a completely disconnected system from Fantasia and doesn't even follow the same method of triggering it with an in-game item. You just pay for it through Mog Station and it prompts you to edit it next time you log in.

I'm personally on the side of not wanting to alter characters once I've created them, but I've had to make a few name changes over time to straighten out lore-accurate naming. It would be great if I could do that with the useless Fantasias I have sitting unused in their inventories.

On the large-scale theoretical impact of making Fantasias available in-game, I have to wonder how much it would really affect their sales. If they were untradeable and purchased with achievement points, there would be a very finite supply of them to any one player - and at the rate some people go through them, the vast majority would still need to be purchased.

[MsQi]

Isn't there an option in the inn room to change your appearance for gil? You need to do a quest to unlock it but i'm fairly certain you can change everything there. I used it once already and it takes you back to character creation options. Am i missing something here?

Nope. It looks like the characters creation screen but a lot of options are not there. Mostly only things you would normally be able to change in RL, and a few questionable ones, are available.

[MagicAura]

Nope. It looks like the characters creation screen but a lot of options are not there. Mostly only things you would normally be able to change in RL, and a few questionable ones, are available.

Ah okay thanks! I changed my hairstyle and colour so i never explored further.

Isn't fantasia letting you change everything though? Never used one so i'm not sure.

[Evergrey]

Just because one big game does something doesn't mean every other game has to follow the same path.

And remember that Blizz sold their Race Change for $25.00 for many many years.
This change they are making is probably (imo) due to all the backlash they have recieved during the past year/s and the drop of players, as a try to get people to come back and play.
If they could I'm sure they would've kept the pricetag on it.

[Evergrey]

Ah okay thanks! I changed my hairstyle and colour so i never explored further.

Isn't fantasia letting you change everything though? Never used one so i'm not sure.

If I remember you can change anything but your birthdate and guardian and also initial job you selected.
Everything else should be viable for changing.

[Iscah]

Isn't there an option in the inn room to change your appearance for gil? You need to do a quest to unlock it but i'm fairly certain you can change everything there. I used it once already and it takes you back to character creation options. Am i missing something here?

It takes you to the character creation screen but your options are limited.

Generally speaking you can make "surface changes" (hair, face paint/markings, scars, jewellery) but not physically change the character's height, skin/eye colour, face structure and so on.

There are a few exceptions, mostly due to the way they've repurposed the settings to do interesting things on some races - Au Ra can partly change their eye colour because the limbal rings are controlled by the setting normally used for unique racial tattoos or earrings; Hrothgar can't change their hair because that setting is used for fur pattern, and the mane is integrated into the face shape (which can't be altered).

[Driavna]

WOW players need to pay $15 to change the color of their characters' eyes when I last played at the end of Legion.

What was that again?

WoW never had a setting for eye color. Was tied to the head you picked. I think eye color, along more options for customizations, are coming with WoW next expansion. When the characters models got reworked, at some point, players were allowed to change heads and skin color.

Why anyone will be against a better in-game esthetician is eluding me.