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Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:19am 28/10/09 | 15 Comments
If someone is being racist towards your race of choice in World of WarCraft, say, calling your Blood Elf "The Pointy-Eared Red Cross", Blizzard now have a solution.

Launching today, they've announced the ability to change your character race, which will set you back US$25. You can only change intra-faction races (so no Horde to Alliance changes - that's a separate US$30 service), and the transaction is separate to realm transfers - you can do this every three days though, until you choose the race that best suits you.

For a full FAQ, click here.


Latest Comments
casa
Posted 11:21am 28/10/09
Fucking assholes making you pay for shit like this, only worth it for troll priests.
Hogfather
Posted 11:27am 28/10/09
You can only change inter-faction races (so no Horde to Alliance changes)

I thought they'd already whored out faction changes for 25 dorras?
Beanith
Posted 11:32am 28/10/09
Can I use the Race Change service to change factions?
No, faction changes are handled separately through our Faction Change service. For more information, visit the Faction Change FAQ.

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&tag=FCFAQ

Faction Change costs $30.00 USD
Hyperslide
Posted 11:35am 28/10/09
Oh thank god for this service !!!

I am soooo sick of being human, looks dweby, animations are crappy etc and ive been playing a human Mage for 4 years now !! ....

Draenei Mage here I COME !!
TicMan
Posted 11:44am 28/10/09
And yet Blizzard find another way to milk more money..
Carson
Posted 12:07pm 28/10/09
Fucking assholes making you pay for shit like this, only worth it for troll priests.

What's wrong with troll preists!? I play one, they're the best. Infact, trolls are the best.
ViscoS
Posted 12:09pm 28/10/09
@Hyperslide Why in that time did you not just roll a Dranei and train it up?
casa
Posted 12:27pm 28/10/09
What's wrong with troll preists!?
They're pro for pve I guess...
Hyperslide
Posted 12:51pm 28/10/09
@ ViscoS

Oh I had a 1 year break which should have been my dranei mage lvling time, when I came back to the game I really wasnt keen on lvling again I just wanted to focus one toon on endgame raiding

While it is a ripoff and Blizz are masters of milking money id rather pay then lvl another toon !!
theaddictor
Posted 03:09pm 28/10/09
lol @ wow players
Sup3rSloth
Posted 05:57pm 28/10/09
Its kinda unbelievable how many people play WoW. Gotta pay to buy the game. Then you gotta pay every month or so just to play it. Then you gotta pay more to get the expansion pack that you *need*. Then you gotta pay for all sorts of other crap.

I'm sure that there are people working just to pay for their virtual life on this game.
Seems like a massive waste of time and money if you ask me.
Raider
Posted 07:29pm 28/10/09
Welcome to an mmo, but yer blizz are smart cause heaps of people nailed this when it was released lining their pockets more.
Infidel
Posted 07:36pm 28/10/09
Hello Activision business money milking decisions!
Maccas
Posted 08:21pm 28/10/09
Because video games in general, TV, movies, or other media aren't a waste of time and money as well?

That being said, i gave up WoW because of the impact it was having on the rest of my life, so I'm in two minds on the subject.
Midda
Posted 08:35pm 28/10/09
Its kinda unbelievable how many people play WoW. Gotta pay to buy the game. Then you gotta pay every month or so just to play it. Then you gotta pay more to get the expansion pack that you *need*. Then you gotta pay for all sorts of other crap.

I'm not a fan of WoW, but it's really not that difficult to afford. You can spend as much on a 2 hour movie as a full month of WoW time. If WoW is your kind of game, which one is better value for money?
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