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World of Warcraft Debuts Paid 'Character Re-Customization'

by Chris Faylor, Dec 11, 2008 8:52am PST

Related Topics – World of Warcraft, PC

Months after Blizzard confirmed that it would offer some sort of "paid character customization" in World of Warcraft and explained the controversial process, the option to re-customize a character's appearance once over is now available for $15.

"Character Re-Customization covers all available cosmetic options for a single character and includes an optional name change to go with your new look," reads the Community Site. "You can now change a character's gender, face, skin color, and other cosmetic features (such as tauren horn styles or a night elf's facial markings)."

As the process is limited to purely cosmetic options, players of the popular PC MMO are not able to change their class or race. To start "reinventing the new you," World of Warcraft subscribers simply need login to their account page.

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By: Marrbe x Show Full Post

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Stupid people will have less economic influence in society as a whole, and Blizzard makes money off of this fact. I don't have a problem with it.

As soon as you can pay to recieve any kind of gameplay benefit, though, I'm out.

Dec 12, 2008 5:33am PST

Stupid people will have less economic influence in society as a whole, and Blizzard makes money off of th... : Marrbe

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My friend's blood elf can finally get the sex-change he's wanted forever.

Dec 11, 2008 11:07am PST

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My friend's blood elf can finally get the sex-change he's wanted forever. : Sturm08
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- Does that matter to a blood elf? Both sexes are equally female. : Derringer

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By: bolneze x Show Full Post

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$15 is ridiculous. $5 would have been more reasonable.

On top of that no race change? Theres no real point then since they have barbers in game. Gender change... meh.

Dec 11, 2008 10:44pm PST

$15 is ridiculous. $5 would have been more reasonable. On top of that no race change? Theres no real ... : bolneze

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God damn, the Sunshine soundtrack is badass. I finally saw it last night on blu-ray and it was pretty cool until it went all Event Horizon. I'd rather have seen the crew just get chipped away by each other or by subsequent failures in the face of adversity.

As soon as the chick went, "Oh we don't need comm towers 3 and 4," I started bracing myself for the incoming stupid. They worry about 1.2deg of offset for the shield but burning off essential parts to the ship only gets a quick question?

Overall it was fun and I'll probably end up purchasing it for the visuals and first 70min.

Dec 11, 2008 4:44pm PST

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God damn, the Sunshine soundtrack is badass. I finally saw it last night on blu-ray and it was pretty coo : Rampancy
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- umm yes underworld is badass agreed, but what does it have to do with WoW paid re-characterization, or ev... : Saithene

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By: erikman619 x Show Full Post

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I don't understand this whole anti-moneygrab attitude. Of course it's a moneygrab. Releasing a video game is a moneygrab. For the love of god it's called capitalism.

They can release paid cosmetic options all day and night for all I care. It's a win-win situation: they get more money, players get more features, but nobody gets screwed or treated unfairly because none of them give you a real in-game advantage.

Dec 11, 2008 9:29am PST

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I don't understand this whole anti-moneygrab attitude. Of course it's a moneygrab. Releasing a video game... : erikman619
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- The idea is that something this basic should probably be free. : phipple
- People forget that altruism is a bad business model. : TigerRei

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I think it's hilarious that people defend the $15 price tag. Many game development studios release content for free. Clearly they factor the free content into their budget from the beginning (possibly some reward the fans later without it being factored into their budget also), but I still find it hard to swallow that with the revenues they are generating, that offering this service for free would somehow hurt shareholders' value... The economic model of big business is unlimited growth, and since they are still clearly growing, I think they could have done this for free.

Dec 11, 2008 5:38pm PST

I think it's hilarious that people defend the $15 price tag. Many game development studios release conte... : phipple

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In before "LOLOL BLIZZ MONEYGRAB" ...

People have actually been asking for this for a long time, and have been willing to pay for it. I guess the only weird thing is that it took them until now to implement it.

Dec 11, 2008 8:59am PST

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In before "LOLOL BLIZZ MONEYGRAB" ... People have actually been asking for this for a long time, and... : yAak
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By: DewFuel x Show Full Post

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Yo dawg, I heard you like to pay, so we put a fee inside your fee so that you may pay while you pay.
Cheers!

Dec 11, 2008 11:13am PST

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Yo dawg, I heard you like to pay, so we put a fee inside your fee so that you may pay while you pay. Che... : DewFuel
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  - anything xzibit is funny to me right now. : DewFuel
  - yo dawg, i heard you like dessert, so we put some dessert in your days worth of food so you can eat whil... : Sixcos

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By: ghost in my shell x Show Full Post

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I would pay for a new dance because I fucking hate my female belf dance :[

female night elf please

Dec 11, 2008 1:16pm PST

I would pay for a new dance because I fucking hate my female belf dance :[ female night elf please : ghost in my shell

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By: ease one x Show Full Post

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I would pay for a racial change to an overpowered race for the special racial abilities.

Dec 11, 2008 12:02pm PST

I would pay for a racial change to an overpowered race for the special racial abilities. : ease one

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By: kainen1 x Show Full Post

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lol. cant believe we have people that would PAY to change their doll's face and looks in game. Seems kinda silly, I know it's trolling, but come on now.....

Dec 11, 2008 10:23am PST

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lol. cant believe we have people that would PAY to change their doll's face and looks in game. Seems ki... : kainen1
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- I sure wouldn't but there are people that will. its not required, its pure fluff. they wanna let peopl... : Turd Ferguson

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By: CoreContingency x Show Full Post

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So now you can look different while wearing the same exact gear as every other player in your chosen class. Sign me up!

Fairly certain quite a few other MMO's let you do this for free (sans name change), well, using in-game currency so...free. Everquest 2 comes to mind here, and I think AoC did also. Anyway, props to Blizzard if they can sucker people into coughing up fifteen bucks for this.

Dec 11, 2008 9:49am PST

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So now you can look different while wearing the same exact gear as every other player in your chosen clas... : CoreContingency
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- That's the way I had preferred it had I still been a customer. Luckily, I quit the game before TBC. No... : fffortune

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Disappointed they aren't announcing a racial/factional respec.

Not sure A) who would pay money for this feature with the barber in game, and B) why they would bother to announce it as a feature. I guess A) is the reason why this "feature" is bundled with a name change.

Dec 11, 2008 9:56am PST

Disappointed they aren't announcing a racial/factional respec. Not sure A) who would pay money for t... : ReiMomo

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By: valael x Show Full Post

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Sometimes I figure Blizzard (and sometimes other companies) know how often accounts are sold and just want to make some money off of it. I know I bought an account and paid Blizzard $10 to change the name.

Dec 11, 2008 9:21am PST

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Sometimes I figure Blizzard (and sometimes other companies) know how often accounts are sold and just wan... : valael
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- Of course they know tons of accounts are sold they just turn a blind eye and look the other way. They sti... : Iwannaacura

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The only thing I don't like about this is the name change. I know you could do it already, but it gives a lot of players a $15 get out of jail for being a douche-bag card. I really don't want to have to learn that the 12 year old I have on ignore is now Ub3r0wnz2 and have to go through the whole process of figuring out he is an idiot again...

Dec 11, 2008 9:03am PST

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The only thing I don't like about this is the name change. I know you could do it already, but it gives ... : quix
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- yea I can see this. have to memorize people by gear. : .ka`boom.zZz.
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  Ignore lists automatically keep up with name changes. : qsylvr
  - Awesome! I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up. That actually makes it a lot better. : quix

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The name change is the big one. People used to have to do crazy GM tricks to do this.

Dec 11, 2008 8:56am PST

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The name change is the big one. People used to have to do crazy GM tricks to do this. : ZombieAcademy
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  They've been doing paid name changes ($10) for a year. : qsylvr
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    - I just checked this sweet detective app, and someone on our server went from Curbstomp to Raacist to (new... : Majuju
    - Some have tried, but you get renamed on friend and ignore lists, so you're likely to get found out immedi... : qsylvr

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