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This is a major issue. We need account wide retainer for characters on same server, or the ability to friend our own alts offline. This must be in the first patch. You have no idea how many long term players will leave your game over this one thing.
"But you can do everything on one character" people need leave no comment. I could paint everything in my house red if I wanted to. I could have a more intelligent conversation with a guppy.
I'm really pissed off on this also not being able to mail my own damned characters. I have been grinding away on crafts in hopes of pimping out other characters as they level and just found out I can't even mail my own alt on my own account. This is beyond stupidity by the devs and really just says f*** you to especially any crafter. Many crafters don't craft for markets in mmo's but for personal use and they utterly killed that aspect.
I only have the one character but as he is around 40 in all crafting and gathering jobs I am rapidly running out of storage space. I can sympathise with those who have created alt mules to try and solve the problem. Personally I would settle for a third retainer even if I had to pay extra for the privilege.
Its not about more storage space. For a lot its about alts I'd think as it is for me. Sure I can do everything on 1 toon but I'd still prefer having different toons and not have to level crafting on all of them for what I need. Since I started I envisioned myself 1 heavy male melee / tank type toon, 1 light spirited female bard/archer type toon, and 1 female elven sort caster type toon. The goal as with many for crafting is making stuff for their own characters including alts yet this is ruined completely as you can't even mail crap to yourself. Its an easy fix but as usual Devs in MMO's don't really listen to players. And all those spammers they are trying to avoid just spend random tells to people anyways. I get them relatively frequently.
I concurr, I truly believe that adding the facility to send someone/your alt a friend request while they are offline would make so much of a difference and allow us all to utilize our alts for the purposes we need.
I dont see any real downside to this and surely would increase £$ with SE.
Come on SE, help us out with this please!
So thank god there's a thread that discusses this issue.
I've been thinking about playing multiple characters for a while, so I was creating a character for the Lightning event. I like/want the Lightning attire, and… well… I have a male character. aka "You CAN'T do everything with one character."
If I am to play multiple characters, I want to send items/gil to them, but I guess I am going to weigh my options and see if I want to work around this money grubbing decision or just deal with the restrictive multi-character play. Guess if I buy a separate account, I can meld for them too, and yet… it's more money per month. Decisions decisions.
edit: Idea! Make retainers available between characters on the same account! If a character is banned for RMT, it's the account that gets banned, which include the retainers. This sounds like a suitable solution to keeping RMTs restricted while catering to player needs.
Indeed, having the option of multiple characters becomes a lot less attractive if our characters can't help each other along. There needs to be some way to create an account-specific "drop-box", whether it's a shared retainer, the (currently under-utilized) Armoire, or Moogle Mail. As others have stated, if RMT is the issue, that can be handled in other ways.
I see that this is related to my other current annoyance: not being able to send a friend request to a PSN acquaintance who just started the game, if I can't catch her online. I had been wondering why this was a problem. Now I understand that it's not a bug -- it's a policy. An unfortunate one, IMO.
Why not just make retainer inventories shared between characters?
I would say the reason is because they want to take up as much of your time as possible. Considering it's pay to play and all. Time is money.