Why are extra characters still $3?

[Aenarion]

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.

yea, but that's not until after 2.0

I'm gonna have to liquidate the vast majority of my in-game inventory.... I'm not gonna pay $20+ per month for this game

[Haru]

yea, but that's not until after 2.0

I'm gonna have to liquidate the vast majority of my in-game inventory.... I'm not gonna pay $20+ per month for this game

Exactly.. I wanted to keep my materia for good gear down the track, plus some crafting mats etc..
The simple fact is if it was $1 per character I wouldn't think twice about keeping them.
Now I'll be burning all the stuff I wont be immediately using in the wards/npc

[syntaxlies]

its to limit the number of people that do it, se doesn't want to have to save the data from 1,000,000 extra characters.

[Aenarion]

its to limit the number of people that do it, se doesn't want to have to save the data from 1,000,000 extra characters.

that fact that FF14 isn't ever likely to attain that sort of number aside, it's not like character data is a hard thing to save. If CCP, a much smaller company than SE can save every single character's data on every account that's ever created in EVE in the 8 1/2+ years of the game's history so far (which is actually likely far above just 1 million), along with FAR more items in their inventory space (which is unlimited, I myself have thousands, if not tens of thousands of different item stacks across my characters), then I don't see how SE can pull a too-much-stuff-to-save card unless they're cheap beyond a fault and/or utterly incompetent on how to create/manage a database.

[syntaxlies]

that fact that FF14 isn't ever likely to attain that sort of number aside, it's not like character data is a hard thing to save. If CCP, a much smaller company than SE can save every single character's data on every account that's ever created in EVE in the 8 1/2+ years of the game's history so far (which is actually likely far above just 1 million), along with FAR more items in their inventory space (which is unlimited, I myself have thousands, if not tens of thousands of different item stacks across my characters), then I don't see how SE can pull a too-much-stuff-to-save card unless they're cheap beyond a fault and/or utterly incompetent on how to create/manage a database.

thats just my best guess, maybe they're just greedy