Missing Genders: A request for Male Miqote, Female Highlander, and Female Roegadyn

[Natabant]

Well since we got some new race info (kinda) in the new player poll I thought I should raise this thread from the dead so we can keep this thread alive! Now discuss!

[Arkhan]

I'm sorry if this has already been answered. I barely post on these forums. There's like 140 pages for this thread...

Will we be allowed to Name Change along with the free gender/race change thing we're supposed to get for 2.0?


I picked a female cat because that's all there was at the time, and I wanted to be a cat.

I gave her an appropriate girly name.

Myself and others who'd like to be male cats sure would look kind of dumb running around with girly names...

and I'd hate to have to redo all the work I put into the game. All that fishing took awhile.

It wouldn't be out of line with other MMO's, really.

WoW lets you pay to change your race, your gender, your name, and even what side you are on...

Ultima Online lets you redo everything too, for a fee.

I think it would make sense if everyone can have a 1 time switch-a-roo of everything when 2.0 comes out, especially since new options are becoming available now that all of us legacy people didn't get to pick from.

[Chrees]

Unfortunately, letting us change our name isn't in the plan for 2.0.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't an option somewhere down the line though. There are plenty of people with gender-specific names who are switching genders come 2.0.

[Arkhan]

They really should put it in the options... -_-;

It's the least they can do seeing as they came up with it way after most of us put too much time into stuff to look back.

It's going to be awfully idiotic seeing male characters with names like "MewMew McKitty" and "Fluffycat" and crap. -_- lol

[Figgleleaf]

Mr. Meow is not idiotic!

[Fleur]

I recently resubscribed and was wondering this as well, since I would like to do a race/gender swap for one of my characters that has a very girly name. The latest info I could find is this, from an interview last month:

GE: We’ve been told that with 2.0 you will be able to change genders, but can you change names? [snip]

Yoshida: As for changing names, we are working on whether it is technically possible to do that. We understand that this is a name you will be with for a long time, and want a name that fits, so we are going to do everything possible to try to do this. [snip]

It sounds like they understand the issues people may have with wanting to change race/gender but having a name that won't work, but aren't sure if they can do it.

[Elexia]

They really should put it in the options... -_-;

It's the least they can do seeing as they came up with it way after most of us put too much time into stuff to look back.

It's going to be awfully idiotic seeing male characters with names like "MewMew McKitty" and "Fluffycat" and crap. -_- lol

Well to be fair, YoshiP did say it's more of a double-edged thing in a sense, name change would make sense given people who may gender swap..HOWEVER, it could also be restricted simply due to the database since they're importing everything over from 1.x.

Not to mention people who are escaping a reputation will abuse the name change feature xD (Though at XIV's current state I doubt this is one of the reasons its restricted.)

[Arkhan]

Mr. Meow is male, at least.

Have they confirmed 100% that it's not coming? If so, did they even give a reason why?

EDIT:

Oh, I missed that last post.

I don't see how a database would limit being able to change name fields. Updating databases isn't exactly a modern, ground breaking technology. Even Ultima Online lets you do it, and it's older than half the players on FFXIV...

I don't see the reputation thing as a problem.

An idiot is an idiot. Let them keep paying 20$ a pop to change their name when they make a total ass of themselves.. More $$ for FFXIV development!

[Elexia]

SE said many times that the foundation systems of XIV are heavily flawed in 1.x, so this is why they said they'll do everything they can to make it happen but they're not sure if it's possible. It worked in XI perfectly fine since the foundation wasn't flawed, but with 1.x > 2.0 transition it depends on the foundation changes if it will be possible or not since they're still for all intents and purposes using a game that couldn't even have a regular messaging system that existed in MMOs since the early 90s.

[Nabiri]

I heard that they would make a person choose a new name if they had chosen an inappropriate one.. So I thought it was possible already, but I could have heard false info. :x

If it's not possible when we remake our chars perhaps they will be able to make it possible at a later time. (Hopefully.)