Alt players and the future.

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Originally Posted by Roda

I would love to see achievements, event items, glamor wardrobe, calamity salvager and mog station purchases be shared between all alts.
'Cause let me tell you, I just grinded all 7 of my alts through arr in less than a month to get the items from the XV event, and I kind of hate the game now since I did all that??

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If anything, I applaud you for having 7 alts. That's a lot. o.o

I agree with most of what you said. Just 2 I dont see eye to eye.

The story profession bonus and I'm confused on what you mean by Mogstation/IRL item purchase bonuses.

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Originally Posted by Rosentretter

No one forced you to do it.

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I mean you're right. But it is an issue they will have to address eventually. They cant keep ignoring players like this.

I don’t think anything will happen. Sharing titles, accomplishments and unlockables would be nice, but doubt anything like that would ever happen.

I myself have way too many Alts and the only reason I do is because I don’t want pay for Fantasias, so I create a new look and level it up to play with when I want to be a different race.

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Originally Posted by Dfess

I agree with most of what you said. Just 2 I dont see eye to eye.

The story profession bonus and I'm confused on what you mean by Mogstation/IRL item purchase bonuses.

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Mogstation purchases should be obvious, they've converted most mounts coming out to Account-Wide.
IRL Item Purchase Bonuses, I.E. Artbooks, Soundtracks, Plushies, etc. Some physical item delivered to your house that comes with a code for an in-game item.

For example I just got the 2 Stormblood Artbooks and the 2 Encylopedias. With shipping was a bit over $200 (if i would've gotten them faster with separate shipping closer to $300, waited to save like $50-100 in shipping). Out of the 3 codes, only one was Account-Wide. For a bonus to a $40-50 item. Don't get me wrong won't stop me from collecting them, but considering that all 3 of the previous artbooks and the first encylopedia came with account-wide minions, its a bit beyond disappointing that the newer 3 are single character.

An inherent bonus to leveling and story progress for having a character through it already. Why make a legit alt if you don't want to play the game again that the story skip/job level skip potions won't cover? For context, I have 3 characters all set for ShB, one more at 70 I want to say around Tsukuyomi, 3 more at 60 3.1-3.2ish, and last one had to finish getting to 50 for FFXV event. If all I wanted was mules, everything after 15 is irrelevant. Most things I want for alts are account/server not just account aside from things that make use of real world money.

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Originally Posted by Antonio_Xul

I don’t think anything will happen. Sharing titles, accomplishments and unlockables would be nice, but doubt anything like that would ever happen.

I myself have way too many Alts and the only reason I do is because I don’t want pay for Fantasias, so I create a new look and level it up to play with when I want to be a different race.

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Yep, I agree, be nice, but honestly with my list.
1 Should happen, 2/3 vastly alter how well people who choose to play alts can (for people who don't it can be used to save a fortune on inventory space while not requiring too much additional server space on SEs part) and not play in some odd ways to compensate for lack of features. 4 is mostly just a bonus to 2, but it won't vastly change how I play like 2/3, if my private house gets private rooms, but I can't share with all my chars on Midgardsormr, I'm not dropping my Solo-FC to be a normal player again. I get an account/server shared bank and an account/server shared house with no private rooms, I'm going through the process of soft-disbanding my FC then letting one of my chars wait out the auto-demolition on that house to collect the expenses. Could really use "selling" your house off to be added, but not a topic to get into here. 5/6 I'm personally pretty okay with it never becoming a thing, it's more of a lazy mode on my part, and I'm still slightly peeved that I'm missing only one of my 8 X-Mas 2018 bears...

Oooooh I see. I never bought anything off the store yet so I was just confused.

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Originally Posted by Dfess

Oooooh I see. I never bought anything off the store yet so I was just confused.

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Yep, they have a lot of nice real items, i have the entire Books Collection now, both Carbuncles, and CEs of literally every FFXIV title... even if I never got to play 1.0, I have the box of shame, and none of the bonus that came with it...

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Originally Posted by Dfess

1) people make alts for, (a) coming from a different game and hasn't converted to FFXIV system, (b) character identity and rp purposes, (c) bag space, (d) to play with friends, etc.

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(a) we use FFXIV's system.
(c) manage inventory better

(b) and (d) are fair though.

I don't really see them doing anything; the system works as intended. I made an alt on another DC to play with friends, bought a boost to 60 and caught up to Lv70 and the end of the story inside of a week. Without the boost it would have probably taken two or three more weeks to catch up, if I prioritized playing the alt character.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

(c) manage inventory better

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Rough sell on that one... considering you can double your account sub for extra inventory space. Someone who gathers/crafts for themselves and maintains a stock for commissions is going to run into inventory issues on the base subscription.

If you're a crafter you probably have alts from when SE had specialist-only recipes since they limited you to only 3 specialists.

There's a lot I'd like to see to make the game more alt-friendly:

- Mogstation purchases account-wide
- Account-wide achievements/minions/mounts (WoW learned this lesson)
- Shared storage
- Ability to share housing
- Mailing alts
- XP bonus on alts for having a max level character
- Account-wide access to glamour choices

None of those are impossible. They all exist in other games. Some decades older than XIV. SE needs to join the modern era and realize that people make alts for various reasons.