Dethdlr This just in from SmokeJumper on the official forums:
We’ve solved some technical issues recently and we can now offer character slots for sale. (Something previously unavailable.)
So as of October 5th (Tuesday), character slots will be available for purchase in the marketplace.
Here’s a couple quick facts to answer obvious questions:
- Slots are permanent. You pay for them once and they stay on your account forever.
- You can purchase any number of character slots. There is no limit. You want 20, 30 or even a bajillion character slots? Go for it.
Regarding Station Access subscriptions:
- Character slots sold are *in addition to* any slots you are getting by being an SA subscriber. (Example: If you had 12 slots available as an SC subscriber and you purchase two more slots in the marketplace, you’ll now have 14 slots available.)
- If you cancel your SA subscription, and then buy slots to replace the slots you were getting, your characters *will* still be present in those purchased slots (they won’t get deleted during the swapover).
Character slots will be available in the in-game marketplace for 1000 SC each.
This also applies to EQ2 Extended as well.
So I could pay for 12 slots at 1000SC=$10 for a total of $120 and then cancel my monthly subscription. Saving $240 in the first yr and $360 every yr after that. Right now I’m paying $30/month ($360/yr) Whats the catch? What does SOE have up its sleeve?
About time, and the price is not bad either.
Finally have something worth spending my “free” stationcash on.
Yep! Finally they listened to people. I was hoping for around 500 SC, but I suppose 1000 SC is pretty good considering the cost of a transfer.
@Userfriendly: I’m pretty sure the character slots are in addition to whatever you get with your subscription, at least on the EQII Live servers. If you drop your subscription, you can’t play, so it doesn’t really matter how many character slots you can’t play with, you still can’t play.
Deth is right on the subscription, you still have to pay to play, but now you can have slots in addition to.
So for someone like me who only pays the SA $30.00 a month for 12 slots, I can now buy 5 slots, and reduce my sub to $15.00 a month (which gives you 7 slots) which I am planning on doing just because I hardly play anymore but don’t want to loose the characters I’ve worked on for 6 years, however I detest having to pay double subscription fees just for extra slots.
@starseeker – You wouldn’t have lost the characters if you stopped subscribing; the ones least recently accessed would simply have become “inaccessible” (from the login screen) and hidden until you increased your number of slots again. I’ve cancelled SA before with extra characters and they were still there when I resubbed to SA later.