Character Slot Fee even for your first (only) character?

[Deminia]

I still cannot see "unnecessarily complex" in this. Most any service that has a secondary part to it, that is price/per is typically done this way. You have to pay this, but you must add one soandso to use said service. For FFXIV, the base account is $9.99 and each character is $3. How is this complex? It tells you the prices right up front, and it's clear.

My issue here is that there should not be a secondary part in the first place - not for a person only playing 1 character at a time. The base fee for a game subscription should include the ability to play the game already in the base fee.

In other games I have played there was a one time fee for the software, followed by a monthly fee for service (which included at least one character in that fee). If I wanted additional features, characters, bonuses, or expansions, then there was an extra fee for those optional things. This was also true in FFXI.