Price Reduction =)

[Antipika]

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.

[Ashiee]

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.

This... I would personally rather have a $9.99 basic service that includes 1 character then have a $6.99 basic service that includes no character + $3.00 to add a character.

I know there is no difference, it's $9.99 either way, but I feel more cheated with the second option.

[Answa]

This... I would personally rather have a $9.99 basic service that includes 1 character then have a $6.99 basic service that includes no character + $3.00 to add a character.

I know there is no difference, it's $9.99 either way, but I feel more cheated with the second option.

Unless I'm mistaken, the process disallows simply paying for the service fee alone. You have to pay for at least one character.

[Rowyne]

Unless I'm mistaken, the process disallows simply paying for the service fee alone. You have to pay for at least one character.

Exactly why the first character should just be bundled into the $9.99 price. Breaking it out is only confusing people and making it look like silly additional fees.

[Ashiee]

Exactly why the first character should just be bundled into the $9.99 price. Breaking it out is only confusing people and making it look like silly additional fees.

Exactly.

This:


would have been way more straight forward then this...:

[Rowyne]

Exactly.

This:


would have been way more straight forward then this...:

Made of win.

You should work for SE marketing, Ashiee.

[Antipika]

Made of win.

You should work for SE marketing, Ashiee.

I'd even include something like [You save X% ou $X] next to 90/180 days pricing plan. The goal is to show the consumer that he will save money. Consumers aren't supposed to do maths and find out how much they save. You want to attract customers, like for any bundled sale for any kind of product/service. How will I save?