Broken Billing

[Jennestia]

Most other MMO's also restrict you to one job per character, where XI and XIV have given you the ability to change to whichever job pleases you without having to change characters.

So the question is, what purpose do you have to make a new character? Visual reasons considering the flexibility of a single character.

If I recall, before release of FFXIV when this issue came up it was mainly for "RPing reasons". in XI, the main reason people had an alt was for storage related reasons, gardening or crafting mule, XIV has quite a bit of storage and even more so on the way when they finish the systems.

As they've always said:

Online gaming, be it Xbox live or MMOs are an investment, something you will dump a lot of money on. $3 isn't really that much when you think about it, especially if you absolutely have to have multiple characters, much like other MMOs give you free slots (this has been changing though from what I seen, they give you a few free with limited access to x, y, z feature then charge beyond that) because they're locked into 1 class branch per character.

[TwinMoon]

If I recall, before release of FFXIV when this issue came up it was mainly for "RPing reasons". in XI, the main reason people had an alt was for storage related reasons, gardening or crafting mule, XIV has quite a bit of storage and even more so on the way when they finish the systems.

As they've always said:

Online gaming, be it Xbox live or MMOs are an investment, something you will dump a lot of money on. $3 isn't really that much when you think about it, especially if you absolutely have to have multiple characters, much like other MMOs give you free slots (this has been changing though from what I seen, they give you a few free with limited access to x, y, z feature then charge beyond that) because they're locked into 1 class branch per character.

Thanks for your reply Jennestia.

If the storage fixes meet expectations, It will really take a lot of wind out of my argument. regarding the $3 per playable character. I am doing what I can to bring friends on to my server as they show interest to manage the expense of money and time to be on multiple servers. If I want an extra character for role-play, that is convenience, and paying for it is something I'd expect.

Paying for retainers doesn't make sense to me, I'm hoping their plans to fix storage will handle this.

I still don't like setting up an account with a third party to pay. With how the game is improving, that won't be a deal breaker for me, but it is still a turn off, albeit, it may be more of a personal preference.

If there was more communication around this billing in general, I would feel more at ease to know they have at least considered and looked at it.