Buying character slots?

[Terrini]

And even "detrimental" as in "time spent on better things", but really, this would take 0 development time.

I'm not against the idea, but something that seems really simple like this can actually cause a lot of development time depending on how things are coded - and it's likely a universal code that states the allowed number of characters based on your subscription type, and having any changes to that at all, especially on a case by case basis could really break their code, plus, adding more characters per server, they'd need to adjust the character log in page display and be able to add another row of characters or a page feature to display all the characters, so it would require time.

That said, if they DO implement such a feature, the ideal would be simply doubling the allowed characters per server to 16 with a new subscription type instead of just adding a +1. Or maybe just add a max of what they can fit on the current character page, but I don't think much more can be fit on with smaller screen sizes.

[Niwashi]

... but something that seems really simple like this can actually cause a lot of development time depending on how things are coded ...

But that's just it. It DOES depend a great deal on how things are coded, and none of us discussing it know enough of that coding to say whether it's difficult or not. It could possibly require some work in the character selection UI, or it could be as trivial as changing a single number in some configuration database.

Since only SE knows which is the case, it's best to leave feasibility/difficulty discussions to SE themselves. (After all, they're going to have that discussion anyway on any feature they consider.) That leaves the only part that's suitable for player discussion being whether or not there's an interest in the feature. The answer seems to be that for at least some players, there's an interest, even though there's probably a lot more players for whom it would be irrelevant.



p.s. On my main account, I'm at 5/8 alts on Coeurl, with at least one more planned, and 1 character on Jenova. I also have a secondary account, only occasionally activated, with 1 more character on Coeurl. I could see myself eventually hitting the 8 character limit and wanting more, though I haven't reached that point yet.