Price Reduction =)

[Akuun]

It's sad people should learn about economics when talking about pricing of games...complainers will complain...buyers will buy...the supply and demand will dictate the direction...right now...they don't really care...and I'm sure they'll re-evaluate it when 2.0 comes out. But the price is too low anyways...especially if you pay in advance...

There are a lot of people I know that would pay full price. So, the discount should come to make many happy. If you still complaining go pay your $15 to another MMO already. Seriously...

It's this {they can do no wrong} mentality that allows governments to become corrupt, and companies to keep screwing over their customers with terrible products.

People payed for a product, the product was incomplete and people are voicing it. You on the other hand are defending their actions and telling everyone that doesn't agree with you that their opinions don't matter.

[Akuun]

The 3$ cost for additional characters is the same price like last year.
I think this is ok (we need only 1 char anyway), but where are the retainers we can buy for 1$ ? I need storage place.

It all comes down to greed. How many kilobytes of data including backups do you really think it takes to store 1 character? Just a guess but likely less than 1 megabyte, my free email accounts could store around 2,000 ffxiv characters each.

[Antipika]

It all comes down to greed. How many kilobytes of data including backups do you really think it takes to store 1 character? Just a guess but likely less than 1 megabyte, my free email accounts could store around 2,000 ffxiv characters each.

It is called a business model. It's not like these 16 extra GB you get in an iPad2 cost £100 to Apple. Same

[Akuun]

It is called a business model. It's not like these 16 extra GB you get in an iPad2 cost £100 to Apple. Same

Business model, greed, call it what you like.

I've voiced my opinion, time to move on.
Good luck with the whole paying thing.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

other companies don't allow your character do to every class and craft.
Don't bother calling in EVE: it don't have class, nor you can max out everything

[Atlas]

As I wrote in another forum voicing more or less the same problems, other than being a business strategy, as they already said before release in many interviews, the 3$/€/£ of the characters is there because they want to promote a sort of social projection of the player in the character.

A 'persona' of sort (psychologically speaking); that way, the player develops and builds a sort of permanent reputation in the world (and we all know that a bad reputation is hard to reset), trying at the same time to diminish the bad behaviour many players tend to have just because 'it's a game, so there are not any problems with how I behave'... and being the price of a single character so high, it'd not be so common for someone to just buy another character (or wipe out the progress with the one someone already has) just to start with a blank reputation.

That way, someone will try to act the best they can, because, let's face it, no one wants to be the black sheep in a community... any kind of community

Other than that, you don't even have the 'mule' fact, because we have retainers, and they cost 1$/€/£ each.

And of course, we don't really know how many variables a single character has to store, given the amount of jobs/skills and whatnot (Skyrim comes to mind.. each save is roughly 5MB in size... ok, they're different games altogether but try to get to my point here).

Of course, everything in here is my 2cents on the matter. I'll gladly pay for the service, I just hope patch 1.20 will be delivered soon, the wait is killing me.

Edited for better formatting <_<

[Apricoth]

So the people who enjoy the vanity part of games should pay out the rear for it?

You so exaggerated here it's not even funny.... No one is paying out the arse for the monthly subscription on this. I have two characters and am a little glad they have applied a reduction to the monthly fee per character. Otherwise, I would have been paying $16.00 per month.

It's quite simple - just like everything else in life that you have choices given to you, do not play an additional character here. No one is forcing you to do so.

[Xeleos]

So uh... all i really see is for the most part is the complaining about $3 character slots.... this is how i see it:

SE target price $9.99

$6.99 (basic service) + $3 (character slot) = $9.99 <- NO other existing MMO is this low!
$9.99 (full service) Same $H!T as above ^^^

and if you really gonna complain about needing to pay for another slot for another character, you really have too much time and too little money... I suggest finding a minimum wage job to support this $3 fee (half an hour of work for 30 days of an extra slot).

[Eugenics]

The price isn't bad but click and buy, eww no thank you.

[Aenarion]

Other than that, you don't even have the 'mule' fact, because we have retainers, and they cost 1$/€/£ each.

This may or may not be true, as the page doesn't explicitly state whether there will be purchasable retainers available once sub goes live. The statement is ambiguous enough that it can be read both ways, and without any explicit mention of purchasable retainers at all atm, I'm leaning towards the side that there in fact may very well be no purchasable retainer until 2.0 at the earliest.