Paid Character Re-Customization Comes to WoW

L3MMINGDB — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:04:16 GMT

And on the note of blizzard saying that they would never implement something..

Bullshit..

Any time a Blizz poster posts anything they say..

"we have no current plans"

If you think of it, and the demand grows big enough.. they will cave in.

Currently, Blizz has mentioned to make leveling 1-80 easier.. and I quote to:

"Promote re-rolling" (Forgot the exact word used for re-rolling)

Sure... currently they say Classchanging is against their beliefs, and the essence of having multiple chars..

But if enough people whine for it to happened.. -it will-

Those things as actual race/class change.. are the only things left that you can alter which -do- in fact change the way -everyone- plays the game.

So far its only cosmetic changes, which make the player feel better when playing his chars.. for a "small fee"

L3MMINGDB — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:55:25 GMT

How on earth would this help an Ebayer?

Its already impossible for players to track other players?

It.. always has been since they introduced the name change... and always was before that.. because all you had to do was make a char with the same name on X-Target Realm, and you'd get a free rename..?

I don't see all the hassle..

This is an overpriced service.. for people that value the looks of their pixels too much already..

Blizz, is the one that takes care of goldspammers/ebaying/selling accounts..

and this feature does jack **** to enlare/lower the ability players had to track other players..

You're still as clueless whenever someone transfers as the next nub..

Why weren't you all this pissed off when PvE -> PvP transfers opened? Oh.. I get it.. that benefitted -you-.

QQ less about stuff that doesn't affect the game more than purdy pixels or a graphics update.

annehunter — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:50:37 GMT

I don't think its right at all. Blizzard have always said they won't implement things like these and I think it will only be a matter of time till you say race and class paid changes. If you don't like your name,class,race,features you should just roll another toon like everyone else did for 4 years.

ryanhamshire — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:27:01 GMT

I'm sure lots of customers have asked for this option, but to give it to them just makes a couple of very dishonest, sickening practices that much easier:

1. Buying/Selling Characters and Accounts

2. Becoming a huge pain in the ass (spammers, ninja looters, general social debauchery) and escaping community accountability by changing your name.

Another instance of Blizzard prioritizing profit over player interest, because they know that as old players quit playing, newcomers ignorant to Blizzard's past player tramplings will take their places.

Up next - Blizzard-website-hosted service for trading/buying/selling characters, gold and levelling services. Props will be impossible to get for your accomplishments, because everyone will assume you just paid cash for them.

angelrock — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:58:33 GMT

Sex change operations $15.00. Contact your wow account for more info. LoL

RobotChicken — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:23:30 GMT

You can't change the race because of their racial abilities, and because you might not even be able to play that class on whatever race you chose.

Herjan86 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:42:33 GMT

Milky Milky

gabort — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:01:09 GMT

Soon there will be a paid service for them to pray for our toons. Retarded, cynical and greedy only scratch the surface of this. I am sure it will be very popular.

rayzzhell99 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:05:14 GMT

i think it's pretty cool...i made a female draenei priest but soon after fell "in love" with the way cloaks fall over the male's tale....but i do agree that a race change all together would be totally awesome....been wanting to make my gnome mage a draenei for a while...

Madramza — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:22:48 GMT

but i still stand with my original comment, if they're guna add a sex change!? then why not a racial change? i would personally pay 15 to change both of my toons

crimsonbadger — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:22:11 GMT

It's a bit pricey for what it does, but at least it has all customizations (short of changing race) all together. Still I wish I had known about this before I had re-rolled my mage though. /sigh

braudrist — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:19:08 GMT

15$ for small changes like that! what a ******* rip-off. I'm guessing billions of dollars in yearly profit for them is not enough so they add this ****.

Megamanx266 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:44:34 GMT

At least this includes the name change service so you don't have to pay for that seperately... And blizz can still track everything even if someone uses this service. I doubt they'd give us players that capability though.

Joanie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:57:27 GMT

This is the most retarded thing I have seen them add yet... and to pay real money for it no less. I could understand if you wanted to change your facial expression or like the tauren horn style... but to change gender? Come on... Lets try and be a little realistic here.

ThantiK — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:22:55 GMT

Those who say this is a waste of money - I completely agree. I believe the feature should never of been added because all it does it benefit ebayers (which I suspect most of the people replying here that it's a rip off, are.)

Take this crap out of the game, take name changes out of the game, all of this crap which allows you to disappear and pop up on another server after ninja-looting all your epics on another is bull. Either that or make some sort of system where you can track any/all characters and alts on that account so you can track down people in-game and then still allow the customization.

Blizz, by making this available is basically saying - "It's ok to ebay your characters" - Then again, it could be that this would be a good system to find out who the ebayers are and do account checks on people who want to do namechange/sexchange/appearance change.