Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
Just wanted to clarify just a tiny bit: The comment from Yoshida during the LIVE video was mainly geared toward being able to change gender, specifically. Not so much about being able to change race. He was talking about changing from a Roegadyn male to a Miqo'te male being relatively understandable ("hey you lost weight!") but that it might be shocking to go from Roegadyn male to a Lalafell female.

It was vague in our Twitter post about it, so I'm hoping to dispel the misinformation now.
It is not odd at all, I could see how it would be if you look at it in a critical sense. But changing from one race to another is no different really than changing sex as well especially since it only effects appearance in the game. Plus your loyal players want this option so it should be a given. Like I said in a previous post I kind of regret changing my characters at the beginning and if I have the option to change it back to what I originally started as, race/sex/name I will likely gladly take the option rather than losing all my 50 classes just to play a different race. We have stuck with the game through thick and thin for a year so I see this as good option for them to help show gratitude for our loyalty to FFXIV.