Ok, I was wondering this and I think many others have as well... The 'cost' of FFXI seems to have gone UP not down... When I first started this game, it was cost of game + one character as one cost. Now it seems you have to pay for game and all characters are an added cost. This game has been out for years and years, why has the cost not gone down? If Square Enix wants to attract more people, this game needs to change with the times and the cost needs to be decreased. Make it like FFXIV and have it a flat rate no matter if you have 1 or 16 characters... That would make it more appealing to some. They already added cost for extra space like FF14, so why not change pricing system to match? Another thing, with this game not getting any more major updates, it should be lower per month... There is no reason to force players to pay for the same content that has been out for years and years. Give it another 2~3 years and this game will either be dead (due to poor management) or someone will have copied its data and made it into a game that is a free to play with all the added content. We all know there are free servers out there, but those are locked at the 75 cap. A few years from now if SE doesn't do something, this game will be F2P because they refuse to change their old outdated systems for FFXI. Love this game and have been an avid supporter of it since release but I think we all can agree it needs a change in how its being ran, would hate to see this game be destroyed due to poor management.