Fantasia and Name Change

Hello,
Posting to discuss the possibility of Fantasias and Name Changes either getting bonded or both getting a more balanced price.
I understand that $10USD is a nice round number, but on top of paying for the whole game (twice in my case since I changed platforms) and paying subscription fees- to need to pay a total of $20USD just to change the way my OG character looks and is called since the new races have been added (moreover my maturity has grown since starting, regarding the name change) is a bit rough for someone wo dabbles with the poverty line and shouldn't be playing and paying the games sub fee game anyways.

I beg you XIV team, reduce the price of one or both of them. Or at the very least combine them for $12USD. Shouldn't be so hard on your system that either of the prices are justified. Kinda surprised more people aren't talking about this outside of my FC.

That'd be nice and makes sense because it's not uncommon to bundle those together for a discount, so there's no way we're ever getting this

Now on Mogstation...

The Witness Protection Bundle.

Fantasia
Name Change
Server Transfer

They make so much money on fantasia alone, I don't see them lower it. They do run sales occationally though.

I'm pretty sure they are very competitive in terms of pricing across mmos.

Wows name change is also 10 dollars, but their race change is 17.50 (on sale)

Gw2 name change is also 10 dollars, and you can't race change at all. Appearance changes are about 5 bucks for the same race.

I definitely think they should sell a bundle, because when I decide to fantasia I usually change my name too because I like race appropriate names. However, $12 as suggested by the OP is a little unreasonable of a discount to expect, $15 seems more appropriate (like buy one, get one half off)...even though I know they'll never do this so this post is pointless. LOL

I don't know if they can be bundled when they're done with totally different mechanisms – one triggered by an in-game item and the other purely through Mog Station and active the next time you log in.

I don't know if there's an inherent difference to how they're set up, but it's strange that they've set up two separate systems if they can be linked.

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Originally Posted by Conundrum

Now on Mogstation...

The Witness Protection Bundle.

Fantasia
Name Change
Server Transfer

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Wouldn't work unless it included a Lodestone ID number change as well.

You get a free fantasia for beating ARR and another from playing long enough.
The name change is usually something you would just do once so I don't see the harm in it costing.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

You get a free fantasia for beating ARR and another from playing long enough.
The name change is usually something you would just do once so I don't see the harm in it costing.

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You only get 1 Fantasia from beating 2.0 ARR. That's it.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

You only get 1 Fantasia from beating 2.0 ARR. That's it.

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That may be true for new players. I get two if I run an alt through ARR because one comes in the mail.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

That may be true for new players. I get two if I run an alt through ARR because one comes in the mail.

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That's either an old veteran reward or from the Heavensward collector's edition. Neither can be acquired by "playing long enough" at this point since they changed the veteran reward system.

You can still buy the collector's edition though – it gives you a Fantasia for every character you have, and costs the same as two single bottles. (They had a half-price sale on upgrade-to-collector-edition a while back, maybe with last year's Rising, so I got it then.) Plus you get the griffin mount.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

That may be true for new players. I get two if I run an alt through ARR because one comes in the mail.

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Yes you have old vet rewards or pre-order/collector edition assigned to your account. But your statement of getting more than 1 by "playing long enough" is factually incorrect today.

My old account always got 2 or 3 fantasia on creating a character but no new characters get more than 1 nowadays by default.

I didn't even know you could name change.

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Originally Posted by Imora

I didn't even know you could name change.

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It's a premium service on Mogstation, so you will not see it in the store front.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

While I don't see them lowering the individual prices, I think a combo deal could work for them. Make it $14 or something for both a fantasia and name change. I have spent way, way, waaaay too much much on fantasias over the years, but I've never once bought a name change. Not worth it to me, no matter how silly my name is when paired up with any other race aside from Miqo'te. Now if they had a package deal? I'd be far more likely to actually get a name change, and I can't imagine I'm the only one.

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Yeah I agree, I just don't see it realistically happen from a business pov.

My name used to be something that only fitted a certain race so I get what you're getting at.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

They make so much money on fantasia alone, I don't see them lower it. They do run sales occationally though.

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While I don't see them lowering the individual prices, I think a combo deal could work for them. Make it $14 or something for both a fantasia and name change. I have spent way, way, waaaay too much much on fantasias over the years, but I've never once bought a name change. Not worth it to me, no matter how silly my name is when paired up with any other race aside from Miqo'te. Now if they had a package deal? I'd be far more likely to actually get a name change, and I can't imagine I'm the only one.

I've always felt that a $15 bundle of fantasia and name change sounds perfectly reasonable.

Since I DO usually name change when fantasia-ing, both for lore friendly names and because I feel like I am making a whole new WoL, such a bundle would get more money out of me since I'd buy it a lot, lol.

Going through the same process.
Personally, I will wait until we get a mog station sale so i can purchase the bundle of x3 fantasias