FINAL FANTASY XIV Billing Information

[Elcura]

If it was $6.99 with a character I would certainly, but $9.99 is still too steep for beta. Also, I live in the UK so I'm probably gonna end up paying more...

[Kaisha]

Also, fuck $3 for extra characters, that is so not worth it.

10mb of character data is expensive to maintain bro!

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I'm not that fluent on MMOs, but do any of them, that employ a standard subscription model, limit the # of characters you create? I can't think of any other beside XI/XIV.

[Kensaki]

You can have 51 chars on wow for the monthly sub. And no I don't recall any other MMO having you pay extra per character it's a total money grab. Lots of people including myself is taking a break from the game cause of lack of content. And a lackluster patch + this shitty pay system on what basically amounts to a beta(Not even a beta really just something that's gonna be discarded on 2.0.). Makes the chance of many people coming back to it slim.

[Elcura]

(Not even a beta really just something that's gonna be discarded on 2.0.)

Pretty sure this is wrong.

Also, considering you can level every single job to max without needing an extra character, I doubt having 50 more would be worthwhile.

[Gokulo]

If it was $6.99 with a character I would certainly, but $9.99 is still too steep for beta. Also, I live in the UK so I'm probably gonna end up paying more...

Afaik, it doesn't get converted 1:1 for UK, you get the same price.

[shidobu]

Pretty sure this is wrong.

Also, considering you can level every single job to max without needing an extra character, I doubt having 50 more would be worthwhile.

People want their troll accounts. Gotta make that money cyber-sexing dumbasses some how

[Kensaki]

I'm sorry maybe you missed the part where their ditching current servers, graphics engine and redoing the whole world.

[Lordender]

You can have 51 chars on wow for the monthly sub. And no I don't recall any other MMO having you pay extra per character it's a total money grab. Lots of people including myself is taking a break from the game cause of lack of content. And a lackluster patch + this shitty pay system on what basically amounts to a beta(Not even a beta really just something that's gonna be discarded on 2.0.). Makes the chance of many people coming back to it slim.

Pretty much this, this is why I'm not even bothering with this patch.

Banking on a Moogle fight to hold me over, by the time this starts to charge I will have either "Been there, done that." Or will be extremely frustrated by going 0/80+ on weapon.

Achievement system: I hated it on WoW because grief play skyrocketed after it was implemented, not sure how XIV is implementing them but I'm not a fan of the system.

Class Adjustments: Lets face it, this was needed, its welcomed, vital to the future of the game but its not going to keep me subbed or stop me from being bored. This is a change where you say "ooohh, ahh, thats pretty awesome" then it eventually wears off on you.

Crafting Adjustments: This is the controversial part of the patch, some like it, some dislike it, some still aren't going to bother with crafting because of the mini-game and its sluggish pace. Its not something thats going to keep me subbed or from being bored.

Payment system is one of the worst out of any game ever.

The content is way too light for me, thats why I have no interest in it. This patch has some really good things in it especially with the grand scheme of things. Right now this is about me logging in as a player who has all their classes they want to play at 50 for the next three months with a moogle fight to hold me over with atleast 2-3 payment cycles before we get an "acceptable" content patch in 1.21.

[Elcura]

I'm sorry maybe you missed the part where their ditching current servers, graphics engine and redoing the whole world.

What does that say about content, equipment, gil and levels?

[Dantrag]

Fuck it, just going to uninstall. They can't just come up with a simple flat fee and allow you to make as many characters as you want. So fucking stupid that you have to pay per character and then per retainer. I should be able to use in game money for a damn retainer and pay a monthly fee like it was for the locker. So fucking stupid.

[shidobu]

lol i cant wait to see the amount of people that dont want to pay yet. Should put up a poll "im done till 2.0, im done period, im staying"

[Raldo]

I don't understand why anyone would want multiple characters in a game that allows you to level everything in the first place. Just like XI, you can't sign onto the same account simultaneously, so it's not like you'd be using that extra slot for dual-boxing.

I get the impression that the $3 per character is to hinder RMT (just like everything else in the game that sucks).

[CrstyCptSteveWitherspoon]

I get the $3 per character IF we're given a shit ton of inventory space on our mains. In XI the only real reason for an extra character was for inventory space, checking/selling stuff on AH, or trolling.

Basic service fee is lol. Are you kidding me? Just include the price of the first character with it and discount from there depending on how many months you pay for. Personally I'm not paying more than a month at a time since once the rest of my crafts/dow hit 50 I'll probably be done until they actually add something worthwhile to the game.

My biggest complaint is this charge for retainer fee. Unless you completely redo inventory space I'm not paying you a dime so I can 'have space for all the bullshit' you threw into this game. I mean seriously? Between all the materials, crafting gear, gathering gear, dow gear, dom gear and now materia I've got maybe 70 slots open between myself and my two retainers which I could deal with, but you plan on removing a lot of those slots with your 'mannequin' system. Guess what? I still need the 200 slots on myself so I can lug around my crafting gear, gathering gear, dow/dom gear, materials, and materia. Store it on my mannequin? No sorry, your armoury system where it's cool to change classes on the fly makes that totally counter intuitive. Maybe with the revamp of the game my stupid rant here will be void but currently these stupid ideas just hurt my head.

[Alkar]

WoW allows you to have multiple characters simply because you can't change classes at all. In FFXI/XIV everything can be experienced with one character (minus Companies and city storyline but that'll change later I guess).
And they're not discarding everything, the content as well as gear, levels and gil will stay when version 2.0 hits.

[Corrderio]

I guess it's more of a preference thing. I'd love to be able to have some mules on different servers to chat up with some friends or etc. However, try to question the character fee and you get jumped by rabid fanboys.

And from how it looks the game still seems pretty steep on content. Sure we got Toto-rak, Darkhold, Ifrit, Moogle, and Strongholds, but out of those 5 only about 2 are ever used.

[Scary]

lol i've been seeing my server (Wutai) dropped from having a rough time getting a 8 member party, to impossible to get 8 member parties these days, even at evening hours. I guess once they charge, they can save money on server cost by consolidating, because Wutai is almost dead.

[Valkrish]

Oh hey, Minecraft updated- ffxiv? What's that again? o_e

[Kaylia]

lol i've been seeing my server (Wutai) dropped from having a rough time getting a 8 member party, to impossible to get 8 member parties these days, even at evening hours. I guess once they charge, they can save money on server cost by consolidating, because Wutai is almost dead.

Unplugging a server doesn't really save money, other than the electricity bills.

[madpersian]

I just started playing some I'm going to see how things are by the time my free trial month is over. So far I'm enjoying the game. I haven't really had the time to run out of things to do. Although they'd have to add a lot of content for me to stay much past that if I get into the Tera beta.

[Sephiroth]

I hope I can purchase more retainers because fuck paying for my alts. Problem is I can't get rid of them without more retainers due to all the materia on them. Worst case I'll get rid of the second account and put the alts on my main account since we'll have a delivery service in 1.20 (I think).