Changing race (game watch interview)

[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

[Reinheart]

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

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.

[Andrien]

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

[Teakwood]

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. :|

[Reinheart]

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...

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.

[Nabiri]

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