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World Of Warcraft Sex Change - Only $15

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huginn
12/11/08

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Fahey, you're making more and more sense to me by the day.
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Ashurahori
12/11/08

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An awesome thing would be to change all characters' genders on April Fools' day.

...(starts imagining a hot Lich King)
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Vicious172
12/11/08

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You all need to get jobs, seriously 15 dollars is shit change.
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Ajh
12/11/08

@Vicious172: Are you insane? It's almost a gallon of gas! (Just kidding) Seriously it might not be much but is it worth spending for this/
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Vicious172
12/11/08

@Ajh: People put thousands upon thousands of hours into some of their characters, i think 15 dollars isn't so bad for something you put so much time into.
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Illegalblaze
12/11/08

What's shit is being charged for a simple feature that should come with the price of monthly admision. 15 dollars isn't shit but it's garbage being charged for cosmetic options.
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@Illegalblaze: I challenge you to support the claim that it "should come with the price of admission". Remember, I'm totally going to counterpoint your ass.
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Rem
12/11/08

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This pretty much caters to people who buy characters. Now you can buy a level 80 whatever, get a name change, get him/her 're-customized', do a talent re-spec and there ya go. The character is all yours, for none of the work. Kind of stupid don't you think?

If you were one of those creeps who plays a different sex character, you would have already done so, I'd think. I guess this service is also for people who did just that, and thought half-way in that maybe it wasn't such a good idea.
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@Remi: Way to jump the gun and get all fired up about the sex change part. You can also change your facial features and skin color. I have rerolled several high level characters because I decided too late that I picked an ugly face, so it's nice to know there's a different, less time-destroying method to deal with that problem.
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ANeM
12/11/08

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You know, I was alright with their price of name changes and server transfers, mostly because I don't really have any idea of how their databases are set up and just whether or not those functions were trivial or actually rather taxing.

However, blizzard has already shown us that cosmetic character changes are very much trivial with the introduction of the barbershop with WOTLK. The servers already handle hundreds of these kinds of alterations a day. $15 would be acceptable if it changed race, which has an actual effect on gameplay due to racials and simply line of sight based on height, but for something they've already shown us to be really not a difficult change, and has no real effect on gameplay.. $15 is ridiculous. Its nothing but Horse Armor.
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iddqdFTW
12/11/08

@ANeM:

Honestly, I'm kind of glad that the paid alteration isn't on something that affects gameplay. It's annoying enough if a guild needs you to respec for a particular role via talents...I could see people wanting you to change your character to race X for some ability they need a lot of.

I prefer it to be an option for people that are dying to change some feature about their character that they can't tolerate anymore. For the rest of us...we'll never even have to know it's there :)
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@iddqdFTW: Exactly. It's nothing you NEED to use to stay competitive. It's purely aesthetic.

Barbershops were introduced because they fit into the game. I would actually be pretty damn annoyed if sex changes were allowed IN-GAME, making them a part of lore.
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ffmusicdj
12/11/08

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No thanks, I picked the right sex form the get go, female thank you :p
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@ffmusicdj: Just going to point out that it's not all about the sex change - it also let's you change your physical features such as skin color and facial construction.

Easy to focus and go ga-ga about the whole sex change possibility, but you can also use it to change your snarly face that you chose when you were an angsty teen into something less...retarded.
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cythas
12/11/08

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I wonder if there's anyone who's going to get a female -> male change?
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SansSanity
12/11/08

@cythas: Very important question I concur..

.. are any of the guys who use female characters to get free stuff finally willing to play as a man?
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Talleh
12/11/08

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WoW is a continual example of how to nickel and dime people as often as they can, as HARD as they can. What's that? You don't like your server? Well unless you're waiting in line to log in for an hour, cough up the $15. Huh? You don't like your characters name? Well forget paying for an additional month, that $15 is going to changing your name! You didn't know that your character model's shoulder pads were broken, but want to keep your cool armor? Guess what the price is?
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crazyace
12/11/08

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OMG... I got 10 lvl 80 characters that all need a sex change. This game is killing me.
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TRT-X
12/11/08

@crazyace: "Need"? Seriously? You realize they aren't real, right?
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BlackMage66652
12/11/08

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I bet 5 bucks in a few months we're gonna see $15-$25 Race changes. Milk that cow, Blizzard!
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Theoutlet
12/11/08

@BlackMage66652: I doubt it since your race actually has impact on in game abilities unlike everything else which is purely superficial.
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Channing
12/11/08

@Theoutlet:
Being a girl in WoW also has an impact on the game.
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@Theoutlet: Yep, they won't let you change race because that actually affects the game's mechanics.
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Theoutlet
12/11/08

@Channing: Yeah, you get to pick up some hot guys in goldshire.
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cmonty06
12/11/08

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I refuse to spend that much for an entire XBL arcade game or Xbox Classic, yet people spend it on a single character change in WoW, lol.
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UltimatePancakeSensation
12/11/08

@cmonty06: If you play the game a lot, $15 isn't much to pay for a change in aesthetics...plus the real value is in not having to reroll and start from scratch.
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thedevilsadvocate
12/11/08

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15$...

lol.... it's always so nice to have a monopoly over a service.
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Theoutlet
12/11/08

@thedevilsadvocate: Uhm, what?
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LllusionX Mailed the Fission
12/11/08

@thedevilsadvocate: think of it, the entire game will be trapped under confused homosexuality. where have i heard of this before?...
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