Character Slot Fee even for your first (only) character?

[Dreadnought]

Isn't it obvious why they do this? It's a marketing scheme to dupe the simple-minded. And stuff like this works too. Why do you think retailers mark something as 9.99 when it's obviously 10 bucks?

this is the actual reason.
its like when ordering cable in los angeles. you see certain packages advertised but what they dont tell you is that you aslo have to pay for this or that in order to get the package, you then either see a massive charger you didnt know about on your CC or you find you cant afford the package because the commercial said nothing about having to have 8 phone lines...

[Xatsh]

Why is this so hard for people to understand the payments....

You pay for the service $6.99 and $3 per character.... It is fairly self explanatory when you look at it, at least to me.

[buritoslicer]

Why is this so hard for people to understand the payments....

You pay for the service $6.99 and $3 per character.... It is fairly self explanatory when you look at it, at least to me.

Wishes Mods would close this thread and send it to it's rightful death. Seriously we've discussed, discussed and discussed this over and over.

[Gramul]

It's just a quick way of displaying how much the game costs.

Really, they could simply say it costs 12.99 (or whatever the base fee plus the character is) to play plus an additional 2.99 per character and nothing would change.

[Ilisidi]

@ChiefCurrahee: It doesn't work like that, there is no "first" character tied to the account. It doesn't matter which character is active, one active character always means 12.95 and each additional 1, no matter what position they take on the list. (Under the old FFXI system that is).

However as far as I see this the base account and characters are activated independently, so if you deactivate your characters you might easily forget about the base account. Byebye money when next month rolls around.

[ispano]

@ChiefCurrahee: It doesn't work like that, there is no "first" character tied to the account. It doesn't matter which character is active, one active character always means 12.95 and each additional 1, no matter what position they take on the list.

However as far as I see this the base account and characters are activated independently, so if you deactivate your characters you might easily forget about the base account. Byebye money when next month roles around.

He never said it did work that way, he was describing that since others want that first character bundled into the base sub fee. And the way he described it is likely how it would work.

[ChiefCurrahee]

@ChiefCurrahee: It doesn't work like that, there is no "first" character tied to the account. It doesn't matter which character is active, one active character always means 12.95 and each additional 1, no matter what position they take on the list.

However as far as I see this the base account and characters are activated independently, so if you deactivate your characters you might easily forget about the base account. Byebye money when next month roles around.

I think you need to go back and re-read what I posted.

I said it's NOT 12.99 fixed for sub fee (includes first character) because it allows you the option to choose which characters you want active WITH OUT always having 1 static character tied to the sub fee.

[Ilisidi]

I think you need to go back and re-read what I posted.

I said it's NOT 12.99 fixed for sub fee (includes first character) because it allows you the option to choose which characters you want active WITH OUT always having 1 static character tied to the sub fee.

But that's not how it worked on FFXI, why should it work like that on FFXIV? You could have Sam and only Sam active and needed only to pay 12.95. Hank wouldn't be involved anywhere. And next month you could pay your 12.95 for Jill and only Jill, not Sam or Hank involved.

The fee included one character which never needed to be the first character or a static character.

[ChiefCurrahee]

But that's not how it worked on FFXI, why should it work like that on FFXIV? You could have Sam and only Sam active and needed only to pay 12.95. Hank wouldn't be involved anywhere. And next month you could pay your 12.95 for Jill and only Jill, not Sam or Hank involved.

The fee included one character which never needed to be the first character or a static character.

MMM... I'm pretty sure FFXI when you paid your sub fee it included your first character slot so If I made "Hank" as my first character I always had to pay for "Hank" no matter what.

Each extra character cost 1.00 but I always had to pay for "Hank" even if i never played him.

[Deminia]

MMM... I'm pretty sure FFXI when you paid your sub fee it included your first character slot so If I made "Hank" as my first character I always had to pay for "Hank" no matter what.

Each extra character cost 1.00 but I always had to pay for "Hank" even if i never played him.

Nope - you just changed your active character and deactivated the other characters. Your base fee included 1 active character at a time, and you could choose from any of the slots you wanted. At least from 2005 onward.