Quote Originally Posted by DoctorPepper View Post
Let's be honest here guys, the real reason they don't want to allow this is because then nobody would pay $4/month for the 2 extra retainers. I don't believe for one second that this prevents or hinders RMT in any way since RMT use multiple accounts anyways.
As I've said numerous times and will continue to say: It's not a direct way to combat RMT, it's a consequence.
You can only send mail to people on your friends list (this is to prevent mail spam, which is a very real issue with RMTers and IS actually working)
You cannot send friend invites to offline players (Another issue. Can you imagine how many friend requests from RMTers we would have to deal with if this wasn't the case?)
Therefore, since you can't log in 2 characters from the same account in at once (there's a whole host of reasons why they do this and this has been a thing since before even FFXI) you can't friend yourself, and you can't send mail to yourself.
Since making it so you could would require effort and the payoff is minimal at best (the majority of plays don't actually make judicious use of alts compared to other games. There is no **PRACTICAL** reason to have more than 3 anyway. RPers need not apply for that.) they've opted to simply not directly fix it.
Call it "laziness" but I can say with absolute certainty that this is NOT the only game that prevents this by a long shot.