In my opinion, Paid character Customization sounds good. You pay IRL money, why not to be able to change your character to how you want it to be? I know someone who made character jusr for fun, and then levelled them all the way to 80.
It's no secret than World of Warcraft game files often reveal a lot about the current/future patch, and the next features that Blizzard plan to add to his game. By digging into the game files from the current WotLK build, you can find 2 hints pointing to a not yet released feature called "Paid Character Customization", and apparently you would have to pay real money (not the in-game currency) to use that feature since the button is attached to the character selection menu.
From what we know, Barbershops allow us to change the following attributes: Hair styles, Hair colors, Facial hair styles, Piercings, Facial features (confirmed for Undead, at least), Night Elf tattoos, Draenei and Tauren horn styles, Draenei tendril styles. So we are left with a few assumptions to guess what this new feature can let us do on our character: Sex change and/or optionnal character customization interface giving us access to a large panel of extra details for our characters.
It shed light on the paid character customisation that will come to World of Warcraft in the future. Wrath of the Lich King allows players to change characters' hairstyles, jewellery and other superficial details in barbershops for a small in-game currency charge. It seems that the new feature will allow more fundamental changes - facial features, skin colour, perhaps even gender or race - although Sams and Sparks didn't discuss specific options.
At yesterday's Wrath of the Lich King launch event, they told Eurogamer that it will allow players to go back and reverse decisions made in the character creation process. They added that the charge was intended as a "deterrent" to stop players using the feature all the time, similar to the existing name change and server transfer services. The move caused a stir when it was revealed at BlizzCon last month. Character customisation is a common revenue stream for free-to-play MMOs, and some feared that Blizzard were attempting to add it as a money-spinner on top of subscription fees.
It's also possible that Blizzard was planning on letting people do the same barber shop customization for a fee originally, and they decided to just put it in the game for free since it didn't really add any burden to the servers or require any personal action by Blizzard employees to let people change their features.
It's no secret than World of Warcraft game files often reveal a lot about the current/future patch, and the next features that Blizzard plan to add to his game. By digging into the game files from the current WotLK build, you can find 2 hints pointing to a not yet released feature called "Paid Character Customization", and apparently you would have to pay real money (not the in-game currency) to use that feature since the button is attached to the character selection menu.
From what we know, Barbershops allow us to change the following attributes: Hair styles, Hair colors, Facial hair styles, Piercings, Facial features (confirmed for Undead, at least), Night Elf tattoos, Draenei and Tauren horn styles, Draenei tendril styles. So we are left with a few assumptions to guess what this new feature can let us do on our character: Sex change and/or optionnal character customization interface giving us access to a large panel of extra details for our characters.
It shed light on the paid character customisation that will come to World of Warcraft in the future. Wrath of the Lich King allows players to change characters' hairstyles, jewellery and other superficial details in barbershops for a small in-game currency charge. It seems that the new feature will allow more fundamental changes - facial features, skin colour, perhaps even gender or race - although Sams and Sparks didn't discuss specific options.
At yesterday's Wrath of the Lich King launch event, they told Eurogamer that it will allow players to go back and reverse decisions made in the character creation process. They added that the charge was intended as a "deterrent" to stop players using the feature all the time, similar to the existing name change and server transfer services. The move caused a stir when it was revealed at BlizzCon last month. Character customisation is a common revenue stream for free-to-play MMOs, and some feared that Blizzard were attempting to add it as a money-spinner on top of subscription fees.
It's also possible that Blizzard was planning on letting people do the same barber shop customization for a fee originally, and they decided to just put it in the game for free since it didn't really add any burden to the servers or require any personal action by Blizzard employees to let people change their features.
