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Final Fantasy XIV Players Will Be Able to Modify Their Characters in A Realm Reborn, Including Names

Final Fantasy XIV players have been wondering about what specific features of their old characters they’ll be able to change with the release of A Realm Reborn, especially considering that there will be three new combinations between race and gender available (male miquo’te, female roegadyn and female highlander).

Today they finally got confirmation of the best case scenario.

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Oh_Yeah4003d ago

Okay I can dig it, JRPGs adapting..adding customization like western rpgs.

Vladplaya4003d ago

They are not talking about new customization features, they are talking about making changes to already existent characters because of the "second" release of the game.

WildArmed4003d ago

I rather not JRPGs turn into WRPGs. That's what they have been trying and failing miserably.

We need diversified genres, we dont need jrpgs to become wrpgs, or wrpgs to become jrpgs.

Just like we dont need every game becomes a cinematic game, or a multiplayer game. Variety needs to stick around

Oh_Yeah4003d ago

Nooo of course not, neither do I, I'm just saying certain elements especially customization is welcome in any game imo. I like to have that feel it's got a bit of me in it. Know what I'm saying?

WildArmed4003d ago

Oh I see what you mean. Imo customization belong in some game, but not others.

For example, Mass Effect makes sense, so does Skyrim, etc etc. You make decisions and how you want to play. (Oh and customization obviously makes sense in MMOs).

But when you are playing a story driven game like final fantasy, legend of zelda, lost odyssey and such customization isn't needed. I feel that it gives the characters a personality, a face, everyone can put together.

Kratoscar20084003d ago

Persona and SMT games allows you to name your MC and choose their dialogue choices and they easily beat any JRPG out there with preset MCs. Besides JRPGs need to be actually ROLE playing games again , ToX 2 made one step already now its FF turn.

WildArmed4003d ago

@Kratoscar

Silent protagonists are pretty awesome. My fav. one is easily Dragon Quest 8. And honestly, I never cared for customization in persona (of the MC that is). I was ok w/ the pre-set male/female.

Toon_Link4003d ago

I'm glad to hear I can change my characters name. After investing hundreds and hundreds of hours into my character and considering everyone will have to remake or redesign there alt it's nice to know I'm not locked to my current name if I decide to go with a new race or sex. I like my original character but who knows with all the new options what creativity may inspire.

The male miquo'te look pretty cool I'm tempted to go with that but after playing 7 years as a rolly-Polly tarutaru on FFXI I know it's a decision to not take lightly. I might just stick with my cat girl mainly because I like their emotes and I'm just used to my current looks and from the beta so far I can recreate my cat 100%.

nbagnall3997d ago

I used to play a TaruTaru as well, but I didn't like how small the armor was on them. The details weren't as clear as it was on Galka or Elveen.

Message me when you choose a server. I am looking for people to play with!

Toon_Link3996d ago

I'll definitely hit you up around launch, I got around 8-10 buddies looking to get on the same server and hit the floor running with all the new content and hopefully have a lot of fun.

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark Software

Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.

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Xbox Profanity Filter Is Ruining the FFXIV Chat

The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.

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Snookies1215d ago

Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.

gold_drake15d ago

wanted to say the exact same thjng.

VenomUK14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?

RedDevils13d ago

*insert gift*
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."

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DivineHand12514d ago

I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.

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TheGamingHounds14d ago

Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched

Eidolon14d ago

it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape

Aphrodia14d ago

Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.

shinoff218314d ago

What happened to just reporting people

NOMATICENIGMA14d ago

This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.

NOMATICENIGMA14d ago

You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.

CrimsonWing6914d ago

Geezus, Xbox, you get gifted gold and still f*ck things up.

NOMATICENIGMA14d ago

It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.

CrimsonWing6914d ago

Does this affect PC and PS4/PS5 users, too? Or is it only happening on Xbox?

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