Mailing stuff to alts

[LaylaTsarra]

You can use Fantasia to change races whenever you feel like it.

I like using them whenever i feel like it. I actually use each of my alts every day. Fantasia isn't an option for me and it's pretty expensive to do that. Not only would be sending them stuff be nice but for them to actually have access to my home in Lavender and be able to use all the features that house has to offer.

Tiffa Level 60 Pally, leveling Astrologian


Kayla Level 60 Bard


Layla – My Main

[Solarra]

Bixillarla : I'm sure most people know about Fantasia, every character gets one, after all.

Wanting to change your Character's appearance is not the reason most people make alts. Some people want to experience the story again, some of us just like having them, people who RP often have several.
Square charges us for them but getting things from one alt to another involves a lot of inconvenience and work-rounds, which is why we would like the option of being able to mail them.

[Youkulm]

Bixillarla : I'm sure most people know about Fantasia, every character gets one, after all.

Wanting to change your Character's appearance is not the reason most people make alts. Some people want to experience the story again, some of us just like having them, people who RP often have several.
Square charges us for them but getting things from one alt to another involves a lot of inconvenience and work-rounds, which is why we would like the option of being able to mail them.

This is also the reason I have an alt, it was to do story again. It's more fun to experience it all first hand vs going back and watching all the cutscenes.

[Kling-Klang]

Every other mmo allows this, but this doesnt.

[ArcMoon]

This is the first MMO I have played that completely isolated alt characters. I always made heavy use of alts for various reasons, including doing story again, playing as a different race/gender, and yes, some muling at times. It really helps relieve boredom for me, which I can suffer from time to time, especially when I am subject to a lot of grinding. Between the terrible wardrobe system here and lack of ability to utilize alts (zero achievements/wardrobe carry over, unable to mail to, so no crafted gear, holding space, etc.), I'm beginning to wonder if this is the game for me.

[LaylaTsarra]

Every other mmo allows this, but this doesnt.

Some say it's because of RMT. Yeah sure, we all know how well SE is dealing with the RMT issue. Give us the ability to use our own characters the way we want.

[Gemma]

XI muling was heavily used to launder gil...

While that may have been their intent with 1.0/beginning of 2.0, clearly not being able to mail to alts hasn't affected the RMT gil flow negatively at all.
I literally had to B-list 5 RMT IN A ROW last night! Finally I just went /busy cause it was driving me crazy.

Not being able to mail to Alts isn't a road block for RMT, so SE should stop punishing the player base in the process & just allow it.

[Sylve]

Out of curiosity, What would happen if your account was hacked/stolen and the thief made a new alt and then mailed everything not bound off the main to this new alt who then traded it all off to a third party and then finally deletes the alt AND the main.

Would that cause issues in tracking down the lost/stolen stuff from the main? Since the stuff got mailed to a character that only existed for the bare minimum time to get past the opening cutscene and then trade the stuff out.

[Lexia]

Considering you have to pay for your alts, it's not an unreasonable request.
For a paid service, the ability to make alts on the same server offers very little. Being able to 'friend' your alts or simply mail them would be a huge quality of life improvement.

True and not true at same time, as there is the entry sub that only $12.99 (for one month at a time only) that only allows 1 character there is the $14.99 sub that allows you have to have 8 characters which if person decides to pay 6 months at a time also only pays $12.99 so yes if you pay monthly you pay more for a standard account as opposed to entry account but you don't pay per alt like in some games like XI did.

[Brill_]

This would fix the inventory problem. They could make cash shop items(like fantasia) bound to a character and other items bound to account to avoid loop holes of creating an alt to get a free fantasia.