Mailing stuff to alts

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Originally Posted by Lexia

That like the same thing as paying for 6 extra retainers which is already available on mog station.

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Actually I did my math again, and SE is pretty clever haha.

1 Account: 2 Free Retainers. 3 Additional = 20 bucks.
2 Accounts: 4 Free Retainers. No addition = 28 bucks.

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Originally Posted by Caelan

found one mention of this by SE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1013009



so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

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As someone already stated, "various" means they don't want to admit that it would hinder their money, right now they have people fooled and trapping them into buying retainers, allowing this will severly diminsh this. They could do it in FFXI because you had to pay for extra characters. so it's pretty clear. In no way would this stop or hinder rmt in anyway, because all they would do is use other characters to trade. I mean it wasn't even a good excuse.

and that Q&A said we would be able to change eye color in the barber shop, Which we still can't do.

all the "anti RMT" stuff in regard to alts is disingenious. If everything is under the same account (something they have no problem telling you if you try to use the MB to buy/sell to your alts) RMT obviously isn't happening. They should automatically add your alts to your friends list if they are part of the same account. They won't let alts share/access retainers you bought under the same account either. Very convenient for them, very inconvenient for us all.

bump for the dim hope of a community team response

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Originally Posted by Youkulm

They if they let us do this they won't make money on everyone who has all the extra retainers... so it'll neeeever happen.

Your best bet is to find an FC that's generous enough to allow you to use a page on the CC to move items between characters. If you're logging and grabbing right away it shouldn't be a problem.... or you can ask a friend you trust to trade / or mail it back to you.

I understand its more convenient to just be able to mail yourself something but it wont happen, cause money.

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Oh make your own FC, Voila! Free storage without Retainer and free transfer to your character anytime you want to.

Just have to find 3 people to help you sign and rank up the FC. You can paid people, then they can leave or kick them.

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Originally Posted by KitingGenbu

Dude, if they do this then no one will buy retainers...shesh. You're so selfish.

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*cough* personal items collection *cough*

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Originally Posted by Exodus-E

Or, you could mail your stuff to someone you trust (who has your alts in its friend list) to act as an intermediary for moving stuff over.

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The other option is FC chest if your alts are in the same FC. I shuffle stuff between the chest all the time. Depending on how stuffed to the gils your company's chest is, it's actually MORE convenient since you can move more than 5 items at a time that way.

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Originally Posted by Caelan

found one mention of this by SE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1013009



so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

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While this could of course be used by RMT they can easily get round it with multiple accounts, as they do. Developers make these ridiculous restrictions in the name of RMT, those that affects very little, but it affects players greatly.

SE, do you want to inconvenience RMT a little and upset players greatly?

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Originally Posted by Gilraen

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Clearly their "effort" to curb RMT has resulted in zero effect, and they couldn't care less. Bots in the same areas doing the same things for months now, boths in Northern Thanalan following a very route every time, they move in herds. There's nothing stopping them from opening up a second mule account, hell there's likely dozens even in FFXI. A bot account isn't going to transfer gil to an alt as when the bot is banned, they lose all the gil, if they send it to several alternative accounts it would be significantly harder to track. The reality of it is nothing but them wanting to sell more retainers, otherwise it would have been patched in as a QoL sooner or later.

Then if you buy a retainer your alts get access to it as well. They can still get their money and stop giving us headaches.