Quote Originally Posted by zaviermhigo View Post
I'd like to see there reasoning for the $3 fee for our first character. 2nd character I understand, but the first? I guess maybe other people charge you for that kind of stuff and just lump it in, but here they separate it. It's just always made me wonder, since CE release.
SE just fail at marketing.

To the consumer, it sounds way nicer to say : $9.99 + $3 per extra character rather than : $6.99 without any character + add $3 per character.

Following the billing announcement today, a lot of medias published the news, and feedbacks from non XI/XIV players were almost always "wow, charging $3 for a character, this is retarded". While if it was advertised as an extra service (since after all you can do everything with one char), there would less negative feedback.

And I believe that SE should even mention on the billing page that one character can plays all classes.

A future customer coming out from any MMO out there, willing to try XIV, checking the fees page and seeing "$3 per character" may just run away because of that, without even bothering asking/looking for more information.