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

[Lily_Skye]

"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

[Marxam]

It makes them money and glamour is the true endgame with lvl gear costing millions above actual max lvl gear. I would personally love to see them use the achievements currency as a way to buy fantasia but from a business model why would you give something for free when people are throwing money at it? Plus WOW has some PR that needs to be fixed and free gender changes is a small price to pay for more subs.

[ForteNightshade]

Fantasias remain the highest selling item on the Cash Shop. There's no chance in hell SE is giving up that money.

[Krotoan]

Consider in WoW you have to make an entire character every time you want to change your class.

[Hysterior]

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

[Iscah]

"...thanks to in-game barber shops"

I don't care how good a function that is from a player's perspective; from an in-universe character perspective that sounds distinctly uncomfortable...

[Driavna]

Fantasias remain the highest selling item on the Cash Shop. There's no chance in hell SE is giving up that money.

I under the impression that fantasias are mostly used to change race or clan. Anyway, with WoW this change made sense, after all was the only missing option from the barber.

SE should consider giving us almost all the same options with had during character creation, with the exception of race/clan/gender.

I don't care how good a function that is from a player's perspective; from an in-universe character perspective that sounds distinctly uncomfortable...

I can assure you that goblin technology is totally safe. Now, if you excuse me, I need to recalibrate all my prosthetics limbs.

[SturmChurro]

So that viera/hrothgar can be excluded from changing gender too?! You guys just like adding salt to the wound for the male viera and fem hrothgar supporters.. If they can't have it nobody should have it!

[LaughingBanana]

So long as there are people who would spend 1000 bucks to change appearance 100 times in FFXIV, forget it, lol.

I just can't do it, personally. It's weird as hell seeing my character changes race and/or gender and none, not even the Scions, are weirded out by that and everything is business as usual, it's such a massive immersion breaker for me, hahah.

[MsQi]

I don't care how good a function that is from a player's perspective; from an in-universe character perspective that sounds distinctly uncomfortable...

"snip, snip"