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Originally Posted by Yame
Arrgghhh... just because it's a fantasy MMO doesn't mean you should be able to do anything and explain it away with "magic." I think when creating a character, people should have the "pressure" of knowing whatever they're making is final. If they don't care about how their char looks, they can skip this and randomize, but those of us who care should spend enough time creating a character that is "perfect."
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Yea, but not everyone thinks that way. In fact, I did as well for awhile, until I found out that this feeling you have and I had is not as important as it seems or rather, it's more important to people personally but about the social thing. It's just the same as with those MMORPGs that use a manually stat arranging feature. It's supposed to separate the wheat from the chaff, but in the end it's a stupid way of doing that. If you're unhappy with your appearance (gender change is one of them) you should be able to change it once in awhile. You shouldn't be able to do it always, but I don't see anything wrong with being able to do it once in a year. This way they will care about how their char looks like, as they won't be able to change it for the next 365 days.
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Our characters should be unique and recognizable. If you run into a familiar face, you should be able to recognize it even from a distance as you would in real life. I think that's very nice to have in a game that is social, and allowing anyone to change their looks at any time would ruin this.
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You can't do that in the first place. Since you can zoom far away from your character in Aion, most likely everyone will do that, since it gives you an advantage, but also makes you unable to actually see faces, but rather just names and armors (and armors change anyway). And there are also armors (helmets) that make you completely unable to see faces.
Also, if taking real life as an example... aren't there gender changes, too? Actually, pretty much anything happens in real life.
It just shouldn't be common, but as long as those changes are limited, I don't see anything wrong with it.
Names (cause that's the only thing you'll see when using chats most of the time) and manners are more important in MMORPGs than appearance when it comes down to social factors. Appearance is in fact rather a small feature for people personally. It usually hasn't much influence to the social part.