SE, if you're that desperate for money...

[Felis]

Pay per additional character was also the plan from the start.

Just because 'something was the plan for the start' doesn't mean it's a good idea. You should have learned that in spades from 1.0's cornucopia of failures

we have this still in some way.

Personally, as long as they don't stop letting us put Event Items in the Armoire as a sneaky attempt to make us buy more retainers, I'm fine with the 2$/extra retainer.

Fix is coming with 2.2.
With 2.2 you can now sell event items to make space and buy them back later with gil from the calamity npc if you want them again.

Aside from the terrible precedent it sets, it's the "per month" thing that's really troubling. People are really okay with spending what could eventually be hundreds of dollars on some additional storage space an auction house slots? It's absurd. If they're going to go down that route (and they really, really shouldn't have), they should at least do the sane thing and make it a one time fee. Even free-to-play MMOs get that part right.

During 1.0 a character slot had cost 3$/months extra. And there were no 10 threads complaining about it.
Some people also bought a second character slot for additional storage space. It was easy to sell in an empty market ward like in Gridania with a separated market system the stuff to a second character with a retainer for 1 gil the piece.

[Naunet]

During 1.0 a character slot had cost 3$/months extra. And there were no 10 threads complaining about it.
Some people also bought a second character slot for additional storage space. It was easy to sell in an empty market ward like in Gridania with a separated market system the stuff to a second character with a retainer for 1 gil the piece.

Again: if you only had the one character, you did not pay the full sub. This is money asked for ON TOP OF a full sub. That is a very important difference.

When will you jump out?

To be honest, I'm already considering it.

[Djeserit]

Again: if you only had the one character, you did not pay the full sub. This is money asked for ON TOP OF a full sub. That is a very important difference.

Someone, from an outside perspective, could technically argue that a "full" sub is now $19/mo. It's all just a matter of perspective, if you don't like it, no one iis holding a gun to your head keeping you here.

[Felis]

Again: if you only had the one character, you did not pay the full sub. This is money asked for ON TOP OF a full sub. That is a very important difference.

And I write about that some people paid 3$/months more to have extra storage during 1.0 (extra character + 2 retainer)

The sub was 9.99$ basic fee + 3$ for each character slot (yes, even for the first character slot)

Lol at thinking this is going to break the economy, its the same as now, you know have to level the retainers, only people that are going to be super dedicated to leveling retainers up to a point of even getting good ingredients will really have an impact on the economy, it really isn't going to be that many, and the amount of people that dedicated to level up more than two for this, is even lower. Even if the entry cost of leveling retainers is low, its shown you give people some mundane easy grind, and still most people won't do it. How many people are really going to sit there, and make sure their retainer is out for ventures at every possible time period it can be, I really don't think that many.

They also want to be good equiped with real equip you need to craft/farm/buy first with materia in it to get the best out of them.

I couldn't agree more on this. SE is going down the wrong path by allowing players to be at a distinctive advantage through paying money....this is something you expect to find in a F2P game, but should NOT be in a MMO I'm paying $15 a month for.

I wouldn't be against this if it did not give the player a distinct advantage over someone not paying.

Do you say the same if someone pay for 2 accounts 6 months in row and only pay $16/month in total for both accounts?