I know this a bit of a rehashed topic, but I just feel the need to vent my frustration. As someone with almost all level 50+ characters on my main account, it is very frustrating/annoying that if I desire to make a new character my only two options are to delete an existing or pay a second subscription. I think my main issue with paying a second subscription for additional characters is that the subscription is another renewing cost. I wouldn’t mind paying a one time fee to increase my main account’s maximum character slots, but I can’t justify paying a second subscription. It doesn’t even have to be a lot of character slots either. Even if the service added like 5-10 slots, that would be better than what we have now.
As for deleting characters, I’m very attached to my characters and while I can’t say I play all 50 of them all the time, I do occasionally use most of them to farm mog/mounts/toys, etc whenever there’s some sort of event in game. With how many races and class combinations there are nowadays I’m honestly surprised we haven’t got additional slots. I miss the days of just casually being able to make a new character when I feel like it, but now I have to deeply decide which character I have to delete if I want to make a new one.
They took us to 12 classes and stopped it right there. 3 specs each. They could always more specs rather than more classes.
4 bags
1000 guild members
The quest log (which I hate)
And 50 characters per account.
At a certain point, after much contemplation and discussion and debate, Blizzard had decided to just leave these numbers as our borders.
And at a certain point, it’s all just the same concept as the game itself. There are borders and boundaries our characters can’t cross. I can’t double jump as a hunter. I just can’t. Blizzard isn’t going to change it because I’m sad about it.
I feel like this is a very weak argument and dismissive. Just because this arbitrary limitation was added 17 years ago, doesn’t mean they can’t add more characters or add a service that allows that. The whole point of a public forum is to express discontent or dissatisfaction with the game. That is how they implement feedback and changes to the game.
They can do any request I have ever seen on these forums.
So, it’s merely a choice.
They must have weighed the options and decided it was best to stop players at 50 characters. Maybe because beyond that you’re taking up too many names.
The complaint about names, which they could solve in different ways, HAPPENS to be one of the things holding back more characters per account. The problems are both fixable and are both connected currently.
If you take more than 50 names on a realm, you’re decreasing available names for new players. And players begin complaining about no names available.
How many would honestly benefit for them to devote resources so a handful of people can make a bajillion characters they realistic cannot and would not play. And would just take up names in a database?
That’s why I suggested adding a service. Any sort of paywall will act as an artificial deterrent. And yes I’m aware the multiple subscription cost already acts as that, but by your own argument people are already making a “bajillion” characters because you can have up to 400 characters on a single battle.net account if you have 8 wow accounts. All I’m asking is to make the service more reasonable. I’m not even asking for 50 additional slots in my original post. As I said earlier, even 5-10 would suffice.
I always find this a poor argument, because it shouldn’t matter how many and this should be a reason to have name choices opened up to the option of one space, hyphen or apostrophe.
Adding an option to spend $5 for 5 character slots up to a max of 75 or something, while adding more naming options, then it benefits everyone.
Perhaps they could do an unlock, so people aren’t spamming low level chars.
Example being that you can create an additional 10 after reaching max (or a certain level) on 50 chars
then another 10 after leveling those up, and so on
Can switch class (job) and do them all if you want… on your one character.
Look at us in WoW:
Many people at this point with 50 characters, looking for more because we can’t multiclass LIKE THE LORE HEROES ANNOYINGLY DO (Thrall shaman warrior/Tyrande hunter priest, etc).
Names are scarce. People end up with names that make no sense or are borderline vulgar. That hurts a sense of role play. I end treating a person’s name as their military codename. That’s how I cope as a role player in WoW.
Thats a slippery slope adding mobile game type purchases. But at the same time, how many would use the service?
And it is a valid argument. When you have limited resources, you want them spent on things for the wider player base. Not just 100 or less people who can’t realistically play all those characters. The packrat/hoarder types.
Slippery slope fallacy much? The game already has “mobile game type purchases”. How would a service like this be any different than a realm transfer, faction change, or race change? And also how can you assume that this service is only for “100 or less people” when it’s been a frequently asked request on these forums? Again a very dismissive response. “I don’t need this thing, so other people can’t have it either” That’s basically what I got from your response.
I don’t want to multiclass. That’s not why I make more characters.
I refer back to the fact that anyone can currently save a crap ton of names on new accounts and also the fact that adding more character slots also gives precedent to add new naming options of one space, hyphen or apostrophe.
It’s not a mobile game type purchase. It’s in other MMORPGs as well.
Once again, it doesn’t matter. Pet battles don’t appeal to a large part of the population, but here we are. RP is basically only on two servers now, but Blizz has accommodated that style of gameplay.
It isn’t. And what limited resources when you can have TEN WoW licenses on one Bnet account and more than one Bnet account if you want?
Source for this.
I have 47 characters. I do play them. Just not how YOU think I should be playing them. That’s not how MMORPGs work.
And there it is. The ignorance of people who can’t be open minded to different styles of gameplay and have to resort.to insulting others.
As someone who likes having a lot of characters, I support being able to get more than 50 character slots. I’m getting dangerously close to that limit and will definitely need more for when we get new playable races and possibly classes in the future.
Speaking for myself, I would happily pay a fee to raise the cap on my account. I don’t want to manage and pay for another account, especially since you’d have to log into each account separately to play characters you have on them.
I like having a lot of characters, leveling them up, making backstories for them, and other such. I’m not someone that really focuses on endgame content for the most part and I like having alts in general.
I’m hoping that we’ll be able to have more than 50 characters per account in the future for those of us alt-aholics!