Mailing stuff to alts

[Avidria]

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.

I've been a bit of an "altoholic" in every game I've played. Had 10+ actively played characters in WoW and Swtor and cycled through enough alts in Aion that I was constantly at the 8 character max and got two full sets of armor (one on each faction) that required 5 members of each faction to get at all. Some were mostly for storage, some for gathering/crafting, several for RP, mostly different races, all so I could play through the game more than once in different ways.

Here, though, I can't mail stuff to alts, I can't share a bank with alts like I can in other games, and I have to go manually unlock every single teleport + bank + dungeon again. On one hand, that doesn't seem worth it to me. On the other, being limited to just one character is kinda boring.

This is the first game I've played where I've had this problem. I'm not at the point of considering quitting, since I love the game and there's a lot I haven't done yet, but it is a bit frustrating.

[Twilite]

Just buy a second account, friend yourself and bam! You can now mail stuff to yourself.

That actually isn't a bad idea.

[Lexia]

Just buy a second account, friend yourself and bam! You can now mail stuff to yourself.

That actually isn't a bad idea.

That like the same thing as paying for 6 extra retainers which is already available on mog station.

[Exodus-E]

Or, you could mail your stuff to someone you trust (who has your alts in its friend list) to act as an intermediary for moving stuff over.

[Caelan]

found one mention of this by SE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1013009

Q15: Will we ever be able to transfer item/gil between characters on the same account and World?

A15: We currently have no plans to implement this feature do to various reason such as preventing RMT from abusing the feature.

so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

[KitingGenbu]

found one mention of this by SE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1013009



so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

Well they obviously aren't going to say its for selling retainers....That would be business suicide to admit you want to make extra money by purposely restricting stuff. As far as combating RMT, look at WoW. How often do you get blasted in that game by RMT? Next to 0....just saying.

[Caelan]

Well they obviously aren't going to say its for selling retainers....That would be business suicide to admit you want to make extra money by purposely restricting stuff.

right, but silence is tantamount to admitting it's about selling retainers at this point. they could at least make up something somewhat believable after two years

[Ashkendor]

so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

You can't really say that it "obviously hasn't hindered RMT significantly". There's no proof one way or the other. Yes they're still active, but there's no way to prove that they aren't less active than they would have been without the measures SE's taken already. RMT and all the spam and other bullshit that goes with it is just an unfortunate fact of life for a lot of games. :/

[Caelan]

You can't really say that it hasn't hindered RMT significantly. Yes they're still active, but there's no way to prove that they aren't less active than they would have been without the measures SE's taken already. RMT and all the spam and other bullshit that goes with it is just an unfortunate fact of life for a lot of games. :/

i can tho... i mean, they can easily set up an fc for the chars on teh same account and keep the fc chest open for transfers. this is easy to do. it's only inconvenient for regular players because they need to have permission in their fc to do so, otherwise they're stuck looking for a third party

[KitingGenbu]

You can't really say that it hasn't hindered RMT significantly. Yes they're still active, but there's no way to prove that they aren't less active than they would have been without the measures SE's taken already. RMT and all the spam and other bullshit that goes with it is just an unfortunate fact of life for a lot of games. :/

I think the point OP is trying to make is that several other games handle RMT situations with more success (i.e. GW2/WoW, you'll rarely get in-game RMT notices in those games and they have populations equal to or more than this game currently). Moves like these are amateur if it was solely done for the responsive purpose.