Class Change Tokens

MissAethe

I've seen a lot of discussion for and against having the option to class change (I personally am for a once per character class change token myself), but has there ever been an actual official reason for why we don't have one?

TaSheen

Only thing I've ever heard is that it's "not as simple as it sounds" (more or less - that's paraphrased).

LunaFlora

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7804848#Comment_7804848

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you all know that we do not have any plans on implementing class changes tokens at this time. There are a number of technical challenges with implementing them, and it would take a significant amount of time to solve these challenges efficiently and safely.

majulook

IIRCC during a live stream event maybe 4-6 years ago they talked about how a Class change could not be done due to the way the games database was structured. Using Class as the primary key. They did not go into much detail only to say it was not possible to implement a Class change.

Now I know that in lots of database structures the primary key can be changed. But, not knowing what they are using it is impossible to say if it can be changed. At this juncture I would say that if it was going to happen it probably would have.

IMHO the revenue they could get from a class change would be quite large, and that they are not even teasing us that it is being looked at. Well, that a pretty loud answer to the question.

TaSheen

majulook wrote: »

IIRCC during a live stream event maybe 4-6 years ago they talked about how a Class change could not be done due to the way the games database was structured. Using Class as the primary key. They did not go into much detail only to say it was not possible to implement a Class change.

Now I know that in lots of database structures the primary key can be changed. But, not knowing what they are using it is impossible to say if it can be changed. At this juncture I would say that if it was going to happen it probably would have.

IMHO the revenue they could get from a class change would be quite large, and that they are not even teasing us that it is being looked at. Well, that a pretty loud answer to the question.

To me, what they've "intimated" over the years sounds as if it's a VERY proprietary database setup, and they may be "peddiing as hard as they can" to just keep it running (because they don't have anyone very familiar at all with the current db structure - and dealing with databases as I do regularly.... if you do not know what you are doing.... well.... think about it....)

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

With there already being a thread opened on this subject here, we're going to go ahead and close this one down.

Thank you for understanding.