WOW sex changes available in Europe News
MMO PC News by Oli Welsh
Blizzard has launched its World of Warcraft character re-customisation service for players on European servers. It's available from the "Manage Account" page of the official website.
As we revealed when it appeared in the US last month, the service allows you to change your character's gender, skin colour, facial features and name - as well as the customisations available from in-game barbershops, like hair style and jewellery.
The cost of the service over here is EUR 15 or GBP 12. Pretty cheap for a sex change.
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ChthonicEcho
13/01/09 @ 12:07
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I'm not a WoW player, but that's just a silly joke, and an even sillier serious question. Female and male don't differ in a way that affects gameplay, races do.
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iokthemonkey
13/01/09 @ 12:08
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i want to change race. Why can't i do that if i pay for it?
--- Race-Class restrictions. |
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iokthemonkey
13/01/09 @ 12:44
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i should be able to do it if the race that im switching to has the same class? For example human->Nelf?
--- That would provoke all kinds of complaints of in-game racism from the less-intelligent WoW players, though. There's also faction matters to consider. |
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@Chimpy
You're missing my point. A human Rogue (my class/race) could easily become a Night Elf rogue (as per my earlier example) . Or a Gnome rogue. Or a Dwarf rogue. Etc Etc. Remember im not talking defecting here - although that would be cool. EQ2 did that and the questline was awesome! :) Getting back to the point - The only implication i could see was the change in racial abilities. But Iokthemonkey actually brought up the best vaild point for the reasons against this. Which if im reading it correctly is this: A change in faction would really mess up your reputation standings. For example a human exhalted with SW changing to a NElf would have huge sweeping complications/changes. I guess at that point i would argue that a change in race shouldn't take this into account, but i can see that sort of thing causing a riot in the WoW community... See? ;)
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shamblemonkee
13/01/09 @ 13:17
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Oli, I took advantage of this before Christmas (account management says: 16th December).
So while its fairly dusty news I guess late is better than never. Subscribers would probably already know though. |
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There should be two options for re-customization: £15 to do it online (or whatever it is), or, a large gold sum to do it in-game (that increases depending on level).
There's no need for Blizzard to charge actual cash for such a function, so adding - at least - an in-game method would be welcome. Of course, actually adding more customization features anyway would be preferable. It sucks to infinity that lack of options pretty much mean any character you make will already have 500 clones on the same server. >_> I even made a female Dwarf just so I could know I was slightly unique in a game full of lookalikes! |
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iokthemonkey
13/01/09 @ 15:02
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I hated it when I'd go into a town in WOW and see everybody wearing the exact same outfits with the same weapons, etc. For one, I really hated the "oversized = AWESOME!" approach the designers took to the characters (I had a Rogue and the only "better" swords I could find were about three feet wide, which was ludicrous) but also the fact that everybody I saw was in the same gear.
WoW is desperately in need of some additional customisation options, especially for gear. |
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I know its been established that this is old news but
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/news/recent... December 15th it was announced. I suspect Oli had one hell of a Christmas/New Year and is a bit hazy on everything that happened before Jan 1st |
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