Why are extra characters still $3?

[jones6]

Very silly. I guess they still thought the backward business plan put in place earlier would be good to go live with.

[Betelgeuzah]

Very silly. I guess they still thought the backward business plan put in place earlier would be good to go live with.

The trend is industry wide, so unless you want to claim that the whole industry has a backward business plan, you're not making much sense.

[jones6]

The trend is industry wide, so unless you want to claim that the whole industry has a backward business plan, you're not making much sense.

I think numbers will show the value of charging $3 per character. I don't know of anyone planning to add many characters at that price.

[TheVedis]

I think numbers will show the value of charging $3 per character. I don't know of anyone planning to add many characters at that price.

why would you want to have more then 1

unless you play on multiple servers


its not like you cant just do it all on 1 anyway

[Aenarion]

why would you want to have more then 1

So I can have more space to hold my stuff?

since they decided that there will be no purchasable retainers?

[Betelgeuzah]

I think numbers will show the value of charging $3 per character. I don't know of anyone planning to add many characters at that price.

Hell, I consider most vanity services way overpriced for any game. But some people still pay it up so I guess it's worth it to offer them.

I'm not saying that it's okay for SE to do this, all I'm saying is that everyone does it in some form or another (mostly for vanity stuff) and SE is not some exception here. It's a plague for the whole industry and to act like only SE does this sort of thing is silly.

[jones6]

Hell, I consider most vanity services way overpriced for any game. But some people still pay it up so I guess it's worth it to offer them.

I'm not saying that it's okay for SE to do this, all I'm saying is that everyone does it in some form or another (mostly for vanity stuff) and SE is not some exception here. It's a plague for the whole industry and to act like only SE does this sort of thing is silly.

Yeah I am just saying know your audience. I think most people still playing are familiar and didn't have a huge problem with the $1 per character ffxi fee. I think people would be more inclined to add an extra character or two, but maybe $3 per char will profit more or something.

[Betelgeuzah]

Yeah I am just saying know your audience. I think most people still playing are familiar and didn't have a huge problem with the $1 per character ffxi fee.

Well, SE probably knows the relation of people who paid the character fee and used them as a storage mule instead of a full-fledged alt, and came up with the current solution (extra storage service is the same 1$ you are used to from XI, while alts cost more).

I think XI players are not that familiar with the whole alt concept in my honest opinion and prefer a mule service instead.

[Haru]

Well, SE probably knows the relation of people who paid the character fee and used them as a storage mule instead of a full-fledged alt, and came up with the current solution (extra storage service is the same 1$ you are used to from XI, while alts cost more).

I think XI players are not that familiar with the whole alt concept in my honest opinion and prefer a mule service instead.

Except at this stage addition retainers past your first will be billed at $3.

You would be cheaper to buy another character for the retainer as well as personal inventory.

All these arguments will mean nothing when they reduce the inventory back to 80 and only one retainer per character the rest will be billed. We already know they intent to put it back down.

[Baxter]

Very silly. I guess they still thought the backward business plan put in place earlier would be good to go live with.

I agree. At this point they should just not charge the character fee. I am glad they are considering revising it as they mentioned on the payment plan announcement.

* The fee structure for after the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV Version 2.0 (including those of retainers) is unconfirmed at the time of writing.