Paying Per Character

[KitCat]

Considering the servers are probably running at 10% of what they were initially, I think they can afford the "overhead". Considering characters that aren't being played are basically just static cells in a database :/ Not a whole lot of extra.. electricity per month.

Let me ask you this to clarify. If you have an empty 100 gig hard drive, and you download 10 gigs of stuff. why would having static data sitting there make your hard drive use more electricity?

What I'm getting at, is even if a player has 100 characters on their account, they can only ever use 1 at any given time. Meaning the server is only under load for one while playing, and the other 99 are just dead weight (and not very much weight.)

Its like people see the servers as holding their 3 dimensional characters. All they pretty much are is text in an enormous database, and I'm sorry but text doesn't take up that much space.

I kindof see your point to a certain extent, but to vehemently defend SE (A company, that runs off of money) against someone calling them greedy, saying they don't know how SE's servers are coded (which, if poorly, is their own damn fault) when you don't even know yourself is silly.


edit~ I guess that I should add that I have 2 characters, and don't really care about the charge. It was the same with XI so I suppose I'm conditioned to it. Though 3$ is excessive, whatever. To anyone whining about 3$, buy 1 or 2 less bags of potato chips a month.

[Nabiri]

they can only ever use 1 at any given time.

This is why I don't understand why characters have to cost so damn much. lol :\