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

[Doozer]

I'm sure you were triggered by the word 'mutilate' so you just used it as an anchor to say that, and you're totally speaking from an RL perspective. Nobody has to accept anything about anyone which is a fact that took me many years to accept.

Take it easy, lol.

[Theodric]

Fantasia sales are consistently listed as the top purchase over on the Mog Station. I hold the firm belief that if people want to change major features in regards to their character then they should have to purchase a fantasia in order to do so. Getting one for 'free' with each new expansion would be nice, though it isn't essential.

[Lauront]

I'm sure you were triggered by the word 'mutilate' so you just used it as an anchor to say that, and you're totally speaking from an RL perspective. Nobody has to accept anything about anyone which is a fact that took me many years to accept.

Just turn off your thinking functions, accept and "respect". The more you disable your cerebral capabilities, the better. That's the message I got from that post.

But that said, yes, I agree with you.

The fact that parallels are being drawn from certain movements IRL for a function to change your character's attributes in a game - often with zero canonical basis, since it is seen as a purely "out of character" thing - is intriguing, to say the least. As for Blizzard, I don't think that company can really sink much lower at this point, but I'm sure they'll have a "hold my beer" moment for that in competition with themselves.

[Jirah]

In the Sims 4 my character can go to the toilets and whoohoo.
Your turn Square Enix.

This comment made my day

[Iscah]

I think this is being taken way out of context.

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.

I'm sure you were triggered by the word 'mutilate' so you just used it as an anchor to say that, and you're totally speaking from an RL perspective. Nobody has to accept anything about anyone which is a fact that took me many years to accept.

Ryu's original comment is (at least as I read it) about the general weirdness of transforming your character into a different character. It's not about changing the gender of an otherwise-consistent character with an RP-esque integration of the event into the character's story.

[lolicon09]

"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

square enix should take note

If you buy a Fantasia just to change the color of your eyes, that's YOUR problem. Also, does that free gender swap comes with the posibility to change the race of your character? Because if not, it's far from being the same as a Fantasia

[Vahlnir]

If you buy a Fantasia just to change the color of your eyes, that's YOUR problem. Also, does that free gender swap comes with the posibility to change the race of your character? Because if not, it's far from being the same as a Fantasia

One of the best things about Au Ra is you can have a free eye color change whenever you like with the limbal rings. Works best if your base iris is black in color or just really dark.

[Iscah]

One of the best things about Au Ra is you can have a free eye color change whenever you like with the limbal rings. Works best if your base iris is black in color or just really dark.

It depends on the look you're going for, though - the limbal rings glow so it has a different effect even if they're the same colour.

I think it could have been interesting if they made the rings just a Xaela trait and added something different for Raen. More ornate horn decorations, perhaps?

[Bearded]

Comparing the free gender change that has been added to WoW (in order to try and appease the players over the delay to the expansion release and trying to avoid a deluge of refund requests) to a Fantasia is like comparing chalk to cheese.

In WoW the paid for gender change was $15 whereas a Fantasia is $6 which allows gender AND race change. If you want to change races in WoW that will be $25 (you can change gender also). However if the race is of another faction that will cost you $30.

So take a step back, a deep breath and see the facts.

[Peace-Division]

"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

square enix should take note

You are definitely missing the point of this change. They can easily afford to make this an option free to players. They have made billions over the years and since BFA they have been bleeding subscribers. This is an easy QOL change for a company with such a big coffer of cash and many many other sources of income from their subscribers. Buying in game gold or mounts via blizzard store is a fine example


I bet SE would if they thought the free gender/race swap option was more rewarding to them than charging for it would do the same. If they made way more money from higher subs and other cash shop goodies adding something like free gender changes to entice ex subs to come back they would in a heart beat. Its a numbers game.



edit: god damn it, i joined a titanmen necro thread.