A System of Private Messages on Lodestone

The Lodestone lacks a system to send players Private Messages.
Yet I found myself in the need to talk privately to players I'm in contact with without passing either through the FC forum or my own / another player's blog.
Could you please implement this function onto the Lodestone website?
It would be really useful since we're not always loggen in into the game all the time and some of us may wish to talk as just players without giving out our Facebook/Whatsapp/Skype contacts to keep in touch outside the game.

Totally agree with this. It's surprising that SE always talks about how they like the game to be comunity heavy but then there's no way to communicate outside the game via their own game website. Normally all forums even have a way to PM users, this one hasn't although it gives out all the character information. FF11 used a message system at least with the Playonline client, here we don't have anything at all, only mogmail ingame.

Look at these forums: I can't even click on your names and send you a message. (unless I'm missing something)

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Originally Posted by Bebekurenai

Totally agree with this. It's surprising that SE always talks about how they like the game to be comunity heavy but then there's no way to communicate outside the game via their own game website. Normally all forums even have a way to PM users, this one hasn't although it gives out all the character information. FF11 used a message system at least with the Playonline client, here we don't have anything at all, only mogmail ingame.

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Yeah and Mogmail has a word limit so if you wanna talk about say, something important, you have to send out several messages. Plus, it can only be viewed in-game, so if a player goes offline for several days it becomes really hard to reach it.

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Originally Posted by Kael_Raiju

Look at these forums: I can't even click on your names and send you a message. (unless I'm missing something)

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Nope, I think the forums don't have that function. :P

I have been thinking this would be a great idea. On the FFXI website you could log into your linkshell and talk to anyone who is online also, whether they are in the game or not. You could also send them messages. I hope they add that feature to the current Lodestone as well.