I'll make you a deal Yoshi

Not to mention, unlike FFXI there's not even that much racial differences in FFXIV in terms of visual appeal.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

i gotta deal too, how about 4 dollars a months and ill give you half my cheeseburger yoshi.

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3.50 a month and i will put on a sock puppet show staring my character getting beat up by the next primal boss

You're asking them to charge $16 a month? Yeah, that'll go by well. It doesn't matter what the specifics are when you're charging $16 a month and taking a risk of being the most expensive monthly subscription fee, you scare away subscribers.

I know you're going to tell me "but if you look at how it is now, that's a deal!" Explain that to someone who's looking into the game. "I have to pay $16 a month and can only make 3 characters? Why don't I pay $15 for another game and make as many as I want?" I know that it's a good deal, I know what you're getting at but that does not change the fact that it would scare a lot of potential players away.

The mere fact you're telling players to pay anything will scare players off because a lot of people rather get things for free.

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Originally Posted by Icehunter

I have 5 friends who want to play this game. They are not happy with how it launched but one thing keeps them from playing with the recent service fee announcement.

Per character cost and retainers possibly costing X number of dollars after 2.0.

Even with the hard-drive crisis affecting the world I'm sure it doesn't cost that much to store the data required for a retainer and/or character. I say this from a developer standpoint as aside from graphic design that is also my main job.

Now personally, yes I can afford to have multiple characters but I don't feel as I'm most do that having more than 1 should cost that much more.

So here's my deal :):
I'm willing to pay 15.99/month for 3 character slots (including 1 retainer each).
This will be inline with many of the MMO's your trying to compete with.

Each additional character slot is 4.99 (one time fee, we buy it outright, maximum of 8 or 16)

Each additional retainer is $1 / month (to a maximum of three)

It's "somewhat" microtransction based but it doesn't provide a benefit other than storage. If your worried about RMT than focus on that, rather than limiting what your players can do with their time/money.

Please keep in mind that it doesn't matter what this game offers. If another game offers a comparable product and at a price that gives better value, you will lose that customer at least 50% of the time.

My friends and I want multiple characters to experience a job or two on that race. I want to be a big honking man meat of a monk, but a Lalafell paladin. I want my Bard to be a cat.

Will I buy more slots? No, because I don't need many. Would my friends? Yes.

And since this is my first Poll! (which I said I would never do)

Like this post if you want it.

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A lot of people fit under your friends situation, and while I understand the meaning behind what your saying... But don't get your hopes too high, I'm sure the developers have already thought of this in mind with the plans for the service fees and such.

WoW has really broke us into some horrible habits in MMO's, so don't be disappointed that square doesn't wanna take that path.

I would love to be able to pay a one time fee to have an additional character slot and not have to pay a monthly fee for the character itself.

For example: Second character slot 3/mo or a one time charge of $48...

I would rather pay $48 then pay $3 a month. Give us the option, not everyone has to use this, and while you pay more up front, (sure I just paid for 16 months of extra character slot) playing more then that would benefit me in the long run. And SE would benefit by having more cash up front.

Sure the pricing module would have to change, but when I leave, and come back (as I do from time to time), knowing that I have that extra slot already bought and paid for is an incentive in and of it's self.

I am also in support of a lifetime subscription option if ever one should be considered. :)

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Originally Posted by Icehunter

Some people don't want to level all jobs on one character they want a race behind the character's job.

big man mnk, cat bard, lalafell tank. I know at least 5 people that like that, just in my workplace and that's how they play other mmo's.

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So, if they have "specific" wants like that, they can pay for it. Its a luxury to have various races for various jobs. People in hell want ice water. Doesn't mean they deserve to have it for nothing.