Would you want account progression?

The biggest thing I'd like is shared housing ownership and shared storage/glamour. I don't particularly care about sharing achievements/story progress/etc. as I do generally regard my characters as separate characters, but it would be great to be able to share the stuff I wanted to share by choice. And being able to share houses between characters could possibly do a little to reduce housing system pressure.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Not sure how people would feel about achievements. Like I have an alt that's sitting right at the end of 2.0 msq. Only really made them so I could attend a wedding on the server they're on. Yet if this applied to everything they'd have achievement stamps for things they don't even have unlocked or are even at a high enough level to have done. Wouldn't this also allow for people to stalk and harass others? I mean yes they would need to look at the achievement date stamp, but I feel if they're already stalking a person they probably already have looked at that info. Yet now they'd also know about any alts the person made in hopes they could enjoy in secret.

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Achievements are honestly a form of progression I could live without being account wide but in many other games they are (World of WarCraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2 for example). The way it's handled in WoW is that achievements are account wide but titles can only be used on a character at a high enough level to have gotten the achievement. So as your alt levels more and more titles earned on your main becoming available. Some are still restricted, like "% of the Black Harvest" is only for Warlocks whose mains (also locks) did the Breaker of the Black Harvest achievement when it was still difficult to do. For FFXIV I can see things like Ultimate titles being character locked, those feel weird on alts.

Also for the MSQ, we could have story skips for alts but I can live without this. Then again I like redoing the MSQ sometimes. I blitz through it on servers with Road buffs.

As someone with several characters, I would love a feature like this. It would be nice to make achievement points become a global thing tied to account as opposed to just character, similarly with glamour. I would love it, even going as far as to say I would pay for such a feature.

I'm scratching my head wondering people would want to make a new character in a game where a single character can master all classes and do every storyline in a game. At this point just use a fantasia imo.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

I'm scratching my head wondering people would want to make a new character in a game where a single character can master all classes and do every storyline in a game. At this point just use a fantasia imo.

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A few reasons, really

-Roleplaying
-Just wanting a different aesthetic for a while but not wanting to actually change your main's race
-wanting a different aesthetic for different jobs
-chronic inability to manage the inventory of all jobs + crafters
-wanting to see the MSQ cutscenes as a new race
-playing with friends on other Data centers
-Burnt out on endgame
-general boredom or because you can

Also for people who have played many other MMORPGs before coming here constant alt rolling is the norm. There is always one main that the bulk of activity is done on but alts are always a thing. Losing them here might actually be a bummer for those people so they just make alts anyway.

I'd totally want some form of account progression, but not the ones mentioned.
Mounts and minions idc much, and that way I can give alts double minions or refarm a mount I have already on main.
Dresser I'd absolutely never want shared. On main it's hell, with the limited item cap it has, I have to limit myself to a certain dress code + keep some stuff on retainers+armory chest. Alts give me the chance of extra dresser space for different dress styles. Having it all shared would mean even more limited space.

Now what I'd REALLY want to be shared is the grindy stuff that's not just cosmetic, especially beast tribes, but also the chance to skip msq for free. Having to redo it all is soo long. Even if you skip dialogues/cinematics, the amount of stuff like solo duties is crazy, luckily they at least reduced the number of currents in old areas but I did a lot before they did. And then there's GC levelling and all.

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Originally Posted by Vryn

Sometimes I want to play another race without having to fork out £5 for fantasia, but the work to have a character at the end game to play with friends is too high and would take me at least 3-5 weeks to get passed story without a skip.

The game is very good at placing arbitrary walls in front of you to squeeze more money. This causes more burnout in my mind, and not going to play another game is not an excuse for poor design by game developers.

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What other MMO allows you to 'play another race' on an alt without having to work through the leveling process (or pay money for a boost)?

The design of every single MMO I've played has been "You want an alt? Work for it". Suddenly that's poor design?

The only thing different in this game is that you require a separate physical subscription to send things via mail to someone. Given the problems inherent with RMT, that's a good thing.

I suppose that there could be a shared 'bank vault' ... complete with micropayments for every additional slot like games such as Blade and Souls... I don't believe that would go over well with the opposition I read about for the Moogle Store.

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Originally Posted by Tlamila

I'd totally want some form of account progression, but not the ones mentioned.
Mounts and minions idc much, and that way I can give alts double minions or refarm a mount I have already on main.
Dresser I'd absolutely never want shared. On main it's hell, with the limited item cap it has, I have to limit myself to a certain dress code + keep some stuff on retainers+armory chest. Alts give me the chance of extra dresser space for different dress styles. Having it all shared would mean even more limited space.

Now what I'd REALLY want to be shared is the grindy stuff that's not just cosmetic, especially beast tribes, but also the chance to skip msq for free. Having to redo it all is soo long. Even if you skip dialogues/cinematics, the amount of stuff like solo duties is crazy, luckily they at least reduced the number of currents in old areas but I did a lot before they did. And then there's GC levelling and all.

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I wouldn't want the dresser shared either.

I'd want to be able to learn appearances and ditch the item like in Guild Wars or WoW but the glamour system is its own can of worms.

As someone who's insane enough to be playing alt characters in this game.....yeah I would appreciate more account wide progression. But I totally see why this isnt a priority due to the nature of this game's All-in-One deal.

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Originally Posted by Packetdancer

It's genuinely stupid that if I want to pass something from my main (omnicrafter) character to my (not-a-crafter) alt who I also raid on -- like, say, crafted gear or pots -- I have to hand it off to a friend and have them mail it to my own alt. Or else clear out space in the FC chest and stuff things in there temporarily, log in as the alt, and take it back out.

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Mannequin sale -> Sell as set. Tax free for both parties and must be bought from the mannequin itself. Of course that just works for gear but still a heck of a lot easier than involving a 3rd party or trusting the FC chest.