Buying character slots?

[reiichi]

Buy FFXIV when it's on sale for cheap and open a second account? If we assume that additional slots cost the same as a retainer ($2 per slot), it's actually be cheaper to just get another account in the long run, especially if another 8 characters are made.

As a refresher, the standard subscription costs for non-legacy people are:
30 days: 14.99
60 days: 13.99
180 days: 12.99

So another 8 characters with it's own account would still be cheaper than adding 8 slots at $2 each for 30 days.

The same caveats would still apply. You'd need need to transfer them to Balmung, which bunches of new players already are doing. It'd at least offer you the chance to temporarily unsubscribe from an account of all the characters you were currently playing were on one account as well. (Assuming veterans awards are not a concern).

[worldofneil]

If you're willing to actually pay for more character slots, then you consider just buying a second account? You can pick up the base game pretty cheaply at times and although you'd have a second monthly subscription fee, you were willing to pay more money anyway and that'd give you 8 more character slots per server. It also has the advantage of being able to log on one character from both accounts at the same time (I don't know if that's useful to you, but it is something you wouldn't be able to do with a single account).

You can also attach a new service account to your existing Square Enix account (up to 8 service accounts per main account) which means you'd even have the same login details and you can choose which service account to use by going via the data centre option from the main menu (so you can just log out to change characters/account without having to shutdown/restart completely).

The big downside though is Heavensward Expansion would need to be bought again, if you need to get them past 50 etc.

Edit: I got distracted whilst typing and looks like someone beat me to it with this suggestion!
Just throwing out another option anyway

[Clover_Blake]

Thank you for the suggestion! I actually didn't know about attaching new service accounts, it sounds interesting.

The possibility of buying a new account did cross my mind at some point, but was quickly discarded. I think it's too expensive and crazy, especially in the long run, since I'm always subbed to this game. Maintaining two accounts for several years (and buying every expansion for each of them) might be a bit too much ;_;

In any case, thank you very much for your messages ^^

[Felis]

buying single character slots was only possible during 1.x (3$/month each slot, inclusive the first one)

[Clover_Blake]

Wait, so it was an actual feature in the past? O_O
In that case, perhaps the possibility of it being implemented again isn't 0! Thank you for the information; I never played the original FFXIV, so I didn't know.

[Felis]

Wait, so it was an actual feature in the past? O_O
In that case, perhaps the possibility of it being implemented again isn't 0! Thank you for the information; I never played the original FFXIV, so I didn't know.

yes, but not many bought more than 2 slots (because 3$/month each slot). Majority played with just 1 slot.
8 slots would cost you 24$/month just for the slots.

[Clover_Blake]

yes, but not many bought more than 2 slots (because 3$/month each slot). Majority played with just 1 slot.
8 slots would cost you 24$/month just for the slots.

Yes, I think that the monthly fee isn't that much of a good idea in the long run, especially for people like me who plan to stick with the game for years (that'd be the most expensive character ever, haha x_x)

My initial idea was a one time purchase of an extra slot in the server of my choice, so that I can play one of my 40 free characters in that slot. Technically, I'm not asking for a 41th character; it wasn't about purchasing more characters than what I'm initially allowed in my account. And just for the record, I personally wouldn't pay a monthly fee for a character I can play for free in a different server. As I said, it's not a good idea in the long run.

[Cakekizyy]

I currently pay 25USD, but that's due to 8 retainers.

I think FFXI used to charge per character too.

[yexie]

These are my characters and they are quite different from one another in terms of aesthetics I believe(if you can get past that the chosen screenshots somehow make many of them appear peculiarly brooding). It's not just some copy and paste where only the name, race and sex change all for the sake of having "that" race and "that" one too. Like many people, character creation is crucial to my enjoyment of a game. I love playing around with it and trying new things and looking forward to content in patches that can offer something to ANY one of them. While not very good at it, I love taking screenshots and taking a stab at editing them too. It's simply something that helps bring this game to life for me so rather than spending all my time waiting for new content and things to do, I like to occasionally invent them on my own.

At the very least, I think it would be great if there were enough slots to cater to at least one of each race and clan if you need to find some excuse to justify the number. There are six races as I recall? So that would be twelve slots altogether. Two slots for a Sunseeker and Moonkeeper, Xaela, Raen, Midlander and High.... etc etc.

I admit, I admire your... patience. I don't RP but I would totally LOVE to have my non-healer classes on a different character or maybe just have my 3 favorite Races all leveled up to healers or something else instead of always using a Phantasia every few month because I feel a bit different, but I can just can't bring myself to go through the whole MSQ and even worse all the dungeons to unlock the roulettes again...
Your characters are all very characteristic and I totally get why you enjoy it so much and I think it's a wonderful way to make the game never get boring to you. I notice whenever I get somewhat bored and find myself login on less, a lot of time it's because I grow a little tired of my character, I start changing my glamour and always end up using a phantasia to switch race and afterwards I play a lot more again, simply because I just... well I don't even know, but I just enjoy it again.
And there are some races I'd like to play but I know they are not for me as a main, like a male char for example, but having a male leveled alt as something I totally wouldn't mind... but yea... I don't have the patience and/or time to do the whole MSQ and unlocking part again... :|.

[JumperX]

It shouldn't be that expensive. Are you planning to play all those 16 characters each month and all the time? You could always cancel one sub to activate the other sub.

The idea you are referring to reminds me to swtor. They have the character slot, but they do have a limited too. You can't make over 12-13 characters in a server. They still limited F2P players to the limited character slots sub player has.