The Ability to mail to our other characters.

[Kayo]

So the ability to mail characters only on your F-List was the dev's way to try and control gil sellers. Understandable ...

Really? How so? What can mailing gil or items to another character in an account they already have full access to, do to help gold sellers? I could never really put the logic behind that. As far as I know, hackers take your account, mail out as much of your gold away to another account then make "Ssdfskjd Fgdkfn" named characters to spam us into buying the gold they just stole.

I cant even make alts ATM since im on the cheaper sub so it never really bothered me even but it never made sense.

They probably won't, because they want to sell you more retainers.

Exactly. As soon as I read the whole MT retainer thing that alt-mailing restriction finally made sense.

Its sad too, one of the ways they wouldve definitely made more money from me would be by enabling this. Part of the reason im even on the cheaper sub is because I couldnt mail between them. I figured since there is no difference anyway, I may as well have them on separate servers. Might have even gotten them a paid server transfer too. Instead they chose to decieve us into buying f2p items and now im just that much closer to not paying them anything. Who knows how many others have the cheaper sub for that very reason.

[Valthein]

yes really, that was the original reasoning behind why they didn't allow cross mail if I remember the statment right, but that fell through gil sellers are like roaches where there's one there's a million. I see nothing wrong with the 2$ charge especially for basic accounts, But the players that do pay the extra already a month should be allowed to mail back and forth. I have been wanting the ability to mail back and forth since early access as have others.

[Ricky]

Indeed, I wonder what other quality of life improvements they'll add to this "Mog Station."

What kind of sig is an crying anime girl? What message are you trying to send here? What is the purpose?

[Gextiv]

What kind of sig is an crying anime girl? What message are you trying to send here? What is the purpose?

1)The kind that portrays a crying anime girl.
2)Love, peace, and happiness.
3)To be my signature, that's its purpose.

[Valthein]

Still want to know if this is in the works or not. I like multiple characters regardless if one can level everything or not, I like one for crafting one as a tank or melee one as a range one as a caster. the one good thing about wow til they made the account wide achievements. multiple characters mail back and forth and each one used to be unique based on mounts pets and achievements. So Dev's is this something we can look forward to or no?

[Enkidoh]

^ this. pretty much put a nail in the coffin for giving SE any reason to let us make viable mules.

Because that was the whole idea of retainers in the first place so that players would not need to make mules (retainers were physical player npcs in 1.0 who actually stayed logged into the game in the Market Ward area, could be used to store items and even run bazaars for you).

Naturally this didn't work out as well as SE had hoped (the system for accessing retainer bazaars was very clunky), so SE streamlined retainers into the Market Board system in ARR. But of course FFXI fans who are used to having half a dozen mules on their account find it difficult to adjust to the different set up here in ARR.

[Felis]

They probably won't, because they want to sell you more retainers.

Or more accounts

[FritoBandito]

I'm in favor of being able to mail things to my alts.

If I can only mail things to friends, then just make it so that whatever characters are on the same account will automatically be on each others' friend lists by default.

Also, with the potential for new playable race(s) on the horizon, people are going to want to create new characters to play them (NB4 Vial of Fantasia. Not everyone will want to change existing characters), and thus will want to be able to send mail between the characters on the account.