108678-race-change-possibility-wildstar

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I think he's saying - there's no reason for the Dev not to do this, as everyone benefits from it.


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There really isn't an issue with race changes in themselves. The problem with race changes in WoW is that your race can make a slight difference in your classes performance(or at least when I played WoW they had racial specific abilities). I remember being laughed at in Vanilla for being a troll warrior tank, yet I still got the job done better than people that used the tauren HP boost as a crutch. In Wildstar there is no difference for being a Mechari engineer or a Chua engineer, everything is the class itself and it comes down to a purely cosmetic choice, which is great. When you put the racial benefits aside in WoW then it turns into a different side of things... As an example I had an Orc warlock, but I REALLY wanted a troll warlock, there was lore that supported the idea and lets be honest most of the "priests" were a form of shadow magic in themselves that often shared or used warlock abilities. I heard they added warlocks as trolls later on in WoW and for me I would've made that change as well. IUt's the same reason that they have barbershops in some games, and body re-customization tools as well, because as they add more to the game in terms of character model customizing(the body itself) you then have the option to switch either in-game or paid service depending on the extent. Now I'm not saying that they should have paid services where if they aded an extra face for mechari then people should pay for it; That should be an in-game re-customization tool for that. However that face being added to Mechari may be enough for a Draken warrior to go "Thats what i wanted! That's what i was looking for my mechari to look like!" and so now that Draken warrior can pay to be a different race and be happy. No one else is harmed by their decision except those who may be involved with the RP of that character and in the times I've seen people change their race they ALWAYS follow up with their RP groups and there is never a problem unless the group is narrow minded and incapable of really being creative enough to tweak the story to accommodate a change of race. On the other end of that Wildstar also doesn't have a "preview with armor" feature like in WoW and Rift so you only get to see your character in low level armor unless you download something like Galaxy library  (Which to my understanding is not supported anymore last i checked or having issues). So you are stuck with this character thinking "maybe it will get better as i level up" and you get to 50 and turns out that it didn't. Your shoulders are too small, your weapon isn't shown in a way you want, the gloves don't look right, etc....all kinds of reasons. Then you see someone of the same class as a different class and you go "omg that's perfect!". Yes this does happen to some people and a paid race change would help people with that issue. Also another reason race changes aren't a problem is that there are no achievements that are specific to you being a certain race, or quests specific to your race, etc...you're just a different model and that's it.


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Yes to both!


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You're more mature than this, surely.


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This said by the person that came into the thread accusing people of having no money and working delivery or fast food jobs for not wanting a cash shop. You understand the hypocrisy there? Moving on, I feel a cash shop will lead to things that are pay to win. Like xp boosters, stat boosts, and the like. Plus it is the fact people already pay for access to ingame items, if they go to a cash shop might as well admit the game is going free to play.


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{| style="width: 100%;" Someone understands laissez faire capitalism better...

than someone else...


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And on that day is when I unsub and never touch the game again. Just like I did with SWTOR. If you want a cash shop. Why buy into a game that is clearly stated to be subscription and catered to people who like that business model? What's wrong with the plethora of other cash shop infected MMOs you're not playing?


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easiest way to assure I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, spend another penny on Wildstar.


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Sigh, why can't it just have a cooldown instead?


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{| style="width: 100%;" No issues with paid race chance, though it's currently worthless to me, as I would need the class restrictions lifted so I could change my human Engi, Medic and Esper to Draken. Not so sure on faction changes, as I've already heard guys on Dom saying how they wish they'd gone Exile due to the low Dom pop - suspect faction changes might hurt Dominion more than it would help us.

This is the issue I have with a cash shop. Anyone who has played WoW will be able to confirm that it often feels that the design team put a hell of a lot more effort in the animations, models and general shininess of the cash shop mounts/pets. Just compare them to those which are given out as part of the game - the cash shop pets and mounts (and RaF - I seriously HATE the RaF perks that basically require you to buy a second account) are almost always new models, with new animations and usually a sprinkling of some special particle effects. For example, Instead of getting lets say a pet for every anniversary (like the baby blizzard bear), or you know a pet for the last Olympics (as we got one for the Chinese Olympics in TBC), we get told to gtfo because their design team is instead making pets for the cash shop. You get a reskinned dragonhawk for collecting 200 mounts - they plastered a super shiny colour changing dragon new model on their cashshop when that was added. There's a pet off the cash shop that has four different models, one per season - how many non-cash shop pets do you think have the same? Yeah. Sure there's more examples, those are just some off the top of my head.


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I dont see race changes until all races can play all classes...but who knows


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