Thread: Patch 6.1 Notes

Originally Posted by GeminiReed

Entry subs can now have up to 8 characters per world but they are still limited to 8 characters across the entire DC. With the existing world travel I'm not sure how alts would benefit gil farmers since you can only play one per account at a time.

That's good news! It means I can downgrade to an entry level sub and maintain both characters on my world. I can see this costing them cash in the long term though with people like me who have very few characters dropping their sub tier. I can't see any reason that I'd have ever have more than three or four characters, let alone eight, in total across all worlds and DCs.

Originally Posted by Illmaeran

I can see this costing them cash in the long term though with people like me who have very few characters dropping their sub tier.

Considering how alt-hostile this game is it wouldn't surprise me that most accounts can fit within the 8 character limit. While a nice QoL change I very much doubt this was done out of altruism. If they were feeling generous I'd much rather see the scope of fantasias reduced to race and gender changes and everything else moved to the aesthetician.

If I had to guess it smells like there's an issue with how their accounts are set up. Maybe it reserves server resources based on the account character limit and/or it impacted the estimates they needed to make for their hardware expansion plans.

It remains to be seen how attractive the new feature is. As I understand things the six month sub costs the same. Timecards only come in one flavor.