Where is the discount?

180 days$7.99 (total $47.94)




180 days$4.99 (total $29.94)



My account still says $47.94.. anyone else have this issue?

+$3 a month for 1 Char. The $4.99 is just the service fee

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...yopemeopw.html

Unlike most modern MMOs that are pay to play SE likes to charge you for each character you make, 3 bucks a pop.

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Originally Posted by NamudNevets

+$3 a month for 1 Char. The $4.99 is just the service fee

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...yopemeopw.html

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ah I see what you mean.

thank you

You are looking at the account fee, right under that it states the following

* One character save slot as well as a basic service fee is required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV.
* The price for one character save slot is $3.00. An additional $3.00 charge will apply for every additional character save slot.



it is still a discount(12.99 is the original price, 9.99 is the discount price if you go monthly, 7.99 is the monthly price if you do a 6 month plan)

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Originally Posted by Thanos

ah I see what you mean.

thank you

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NP dude, hope you enjoy ur stay as I know I will.

That means you have six characters?

On the six month note, I didn't think the bill tallied our character fee (if only a single character) longer than a month.

i.e. 180 day service fee + 30 day character fee
instead of 180 day service fee + 180 day character fee

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Unlike most modern MMOs that are pay to play SE likes to charge you for each character you make, 3 bucks a pop.

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BUt unlike most mmos, FFXI/FFXIV is cheaper

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Originally Posted by Rokien

BUt unlike most mmos, FFXI/FFXIV is cheaper

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And for good reason. It is after all a glorified beta for the next year or so.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

That means you have six characters?

On the six month note, I didn't think the bill tallied our character fee (if only a single character) longer than a month.

i.e. 180 day service fee + 30 day character fee
instead of 180 day service fee + 180 day character fee

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ya thats what i thought also but ya makes sense now.

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Originally Posted by Thanos

ya thats what i thought also but ya makes sense now.

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T'would make sense to me for the single character bid.

I can understand a player who is trying to live out three separate city/GC storylines may not be interested in activating one character for the whole six months. Or even brothers sharing the same account and one stops, but the other continues, etc.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

T'would make sense to me for the single character bid.

I can understand a player who is trying to live out three separate city/GC storylines may not be interested in activating one character for the whole six months. Or even brothers sharing the same account and one stops, but the other continues, etc.

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I only have 1 character...

I guess its 180 day service fee + 180 day character fee.

Initially i thought it was just 180 day service fee + 30 day character fee since I am going 180 days at a time.

The price are still the normal price for me also. I have 1 extra char the total price for the game and one extra char should be about$45-$50 but I'm getting hit with $60-$70.

Price should be $29.95 For the game+1 char slot for a 180days and an extra $3 per month for each extra char slot
so $3 per month + 180days(6months)= $18 So. $29.95+$18.00=47.95 My SE account still tells me I have to pay like around $65. Maybe I misunderstood.

For two characters and 180 days, it may say something around 62.74ish if USD.

I think.

Yeah, but that's still at the normal price right?

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Originally Posted by Mrfox0707

Yeah, but that's still at the normal price right?

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nope, you are misreading

the 1 character slot is NOT included in that 4.99 per month, you missed what it said directly under that as follows

* One character save slot as well as a basic service fee is required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV.
* The price for one character save slot is $3.00. An additional $3.00 charge will apply for every additional character save slot.

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Originally Posted by TheVedis

nope, you are misreading

the 1 character slot is NOT included in that 4.99 per month, you missed what it said directly under that as follows

* One character save slot as well as a basic service fee is required to play FINAL FANTASY XIV.
* The price for one character save slot is $3.00. An additional $3.00 charge will apply for every additional character save slot.

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And like i said i thought it was a ONE TIME $3 save slot if you buy in 180 day intervals. But instead its $3 per month for save slot

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Originally Posted by Mrfox0707

Yeah, but that's still at the normal price right?

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I think without the discount price, for six months and two characters, you would be paying $95.94 instead (if you were paying on a monthly basis instead of 6 months up front).

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Originally Posted by Thanos

And like i said i thought it was a ONE TIME $3 save slot if you buy in 180 day intervals. But instead its $3 per month for save slot

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which is how its supposed to be, so yes
3 dollars per character per month

Why do they separate the service fee from the initial character fee?

No one can even play the game unless they have a character, so no one would ever pay the service fee only...

Some of the information on the billing site is out of date. For instance, when reading the FAQ on Crysta, it still says that it can only be purchased in increments of 500, 1000, etc. However, they've already said that the system is changing so that you can specify the exact amount of Crysta to purchase.

The problem is that it's hard to tell exactly how much of the website is out of date. Considering that billing goes live tomorrow, this isn't a good thing. I know that they have a lot going on with the revamp of FFXIV, but providing customers with accurate information regarding billing should be a top priority.

Beyond that, I'm hopeful that they streamline their billing system come 2.0. It's too convoluted now, with the "account basic service" being separate from "options" such as characters. Considering that a character is necessary to play the game, it doesn't seem like much of an "option", which is confusing to many people. And when people DO figure out what's going on, I don't think they appreciate it much.

As a side note, I really hope that they remove the character fee entirely for 2.0. I'd like to start a new character to experience 2.0 from the ground up, but I'm not going to do it if it means I have to either pay more or dump my current character.

Tell me what's wrong with this please?

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6...tupiderror.jpg

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Originally Posted by Luvbug

Tell me what's wrong with this please?

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6...tupiderror.jpg

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i see the basic service fee + 2 characters, so unless you DONT have 2 characters, it looks right to me

Yup you are right...forgot it was on the 180 bulk lol... omg I'm such fool -_-... /hides

It gets tricky if you don't want both characters for 180 days and only one of them, but still want the discounted service fee.

I got the 6 month plan an deleted my 2 alts and made sure they were unselected when I went to billing. Total- 47.94, thats 29.94 + 18 for the 6 month char. It was rly not that hard at all, the payment, the math, the site navigation. IDK why its so hard for everyone. I put the payment site in the 2nd post so it would b seen by all easy.