Quote Originally Posted by Pebe View Post
This may be completely wrong, so don't hold me to it. This is jusat an example.

Personally I don't mind the character fee, and there is probably a good reason behind it. Like previously said by many people, one character can do everything. Now in an MMO, being able to everything entails ALOT. Now think for a second, how much memory do you think one character takes up. Everytime you log in or log off you character data is being retrivied or stored on the ffxiv servers (I think, please someone who knows more about this help me explain). This has to be the case, otherwise you couldn't play your ffxiv character on a different computer. So somewhere stored in ffxiv's memory is all of your character data. Which includes things like, character graphics, quests completed, jobs leveled, items held, linkshells, friends, etc. But not only does it include that, but each character also probably has a massive chunk of memory reserved for things to come. If not, then everytime they add new content they will expand on the memory allocated for each character. Now, imagine 5 years from now and think about how huge this game will be and how much memory each character alone will take up. I personally am curious of the exact amount of memory SE reserves for each character. Probably could make some interesting comparisons between memory and cost.

This is just an example for I am sure there is far more to the character cost than just memory cost, maybe memory cost doesn't even play a factor (It is kind of cheap now). I can't really say, only SE knows.
Honestly there is no real way of us knowing how much it takes it up, but its just data stored in a database. My guess would be a file under 1MB.