Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
That's because it is -abuse-, and players do that knowing darn well it is. Most freemium game players even do this. I know of a guy who had a new storage mule account for every material the game had. You think new-character limits are silly, just wait to see how much worse it gets on freemium games.

This points to two problems:
1) If players feel they need to do this, then the game does not provide adequate storage, or the stacking limits are too low
or
b) the player is just hoarding stuff they should't be hoarding.

In FFXIV you should be getting rid of materials immediately. Some materials are practically worthless and those you should just destroy or sell to the NPC (hint, anything that is a market price of 1g sell to the NPC.) This isn't some crappy freemium game that punishes you by making you destroy your collectibles to get new ones.
you do realize that a lot of your crafting mats have a marketprice of 1 gil maybe a little more right?