Unless I am misunderstanding the fee chart, every player must pay both a base subscription fee as well as $3 extra per character played every month. The character fee is incurred even if you only have 1 character - which makes no sense to me.

I really do not understand why the base subscription fee does not already include 1 character slot. To me, that is misleading advertising - the base fee is really not $6.99, it is really $9.99 once you add in the character slot fee. However, since you must have at least one character in order to use the subscription, it seems very wrong to tack on that fee for your first character. If you choose to add additional characters, then I can at least see the rationale for charging an extra fee for those characters. But if you just have one character? That doesn't seem right.

Perhaps this is just another typo/mistranslation? What reason would anyone have to just pay a monthly service fee without at least one character slot?