The game immerses you, the player, as the Warrior of Light. You're fighting primals, you're fighting the Ascians, you're saving the world (or at least I hope we are).
Why is there suddenly a distinction here saying it's not you who survived the Calamity? My character is not even the same race or gender as from 1.0, so as far as I'm concerned, it's not the same character anyhow.

People who didn't even finish the story in 1.0 still got a character branded, so it's not like it serves as an adequate badge of exclusive pride to say you stuck with the game until the end either.
So I don't see stuff like lore or entitlement as reasons for not making the legacy mark account-wide.


Likewise, I hope it's not that important to the OP if the mark ends up staying character-bound. I get that you guys had no reason to investigate further on whether or not your old characters still existed. But you guys were happy with your new characters even without the mark, right?


If I missed out on something, and I felt it was important enough, I would figure it couldn't hurt to at least ask if I could have a second chance. Sometimes, you luck out. Whether you do or don't, it's not a big deal. Moving on with your life is the same as if you never found out what you missed.
If it's really simple for the devs to add in though, I think it would be nice to have the mark applied to the account.
I also think it'd be nice to have account -storage-, because just as all of my characters are still "me", each character's stuff still feels like "mine", but I know that's asking for too much. Maybe in a future game, please!