My Alt wish and desire

[Renius]

More than anything what I enjoyed the most in other MMOs is the ability to have alts concentrating on their specific jobs (FF14 term). I only want the ability to have the alts share storage and resources rather than having just one guy be everything. I find the limitation/restriction of just having one char with multiple jobs ridiculous.
It would not be earth shattering to come up with it or that hard to implement. In other other games I have played you can.
Why can't I enjoy all races and jobs in independent characters? Makes NO SENSE at all!!

[Dorander]

Being "everything" on one character is this game's niche. They aren't going to be changing that at all. If you want to play different races make alts or use Fantasia potions. If that still doesn't help you, maybe this game isn't for you?

[PArcher]

Just don't level other jobs on the alt?

[Anarnee]

I don't mind leveling a job again on an alt. I actually really enjoy leveling stuff again. But I do feel that since we are paying more for alts, we should get some special features to make it a bit easier to do things between characters.

lol I would love to just take pictures with all of my characters together. Be able to transfer items between characters more easily. SOMETHING~

[Ragology]

I think sharing storage is fine as long as its restricted to a server by server basis, otherwise the various markets would collapse.

[Rongway]

Makes NO SENSE at all!!

This is Final Fantasy XIV, and characters being able to do everything is a feature of the classic titles Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy V; the modern titles Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XI, Final Fantasy XII; and to a lesser extent Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XIII. In short, it's a Final Fantasy thing, and the thing this game excels at is appealing to those who have played these other games (unless you're a summoner), not "other MMOs".

[SigmaOZ]

Single job per character is ridiculous, that would mean a downgrade to the game and it will never happen!...

As a clever alternative just make a single alt per job and enjoy going through the MSQ as many times as the characters you want!...

On Square Enix's side, yes, they must improve the quality of life in-game by allowing alternate characters under the same account to share housing and to be able to "trade" between them, you definitely don't want to share inventory because that would mean reducing the total space available!...

In order to implement trading between alt characters (under same account) Square Enix would have to create a system where players could log in with up to eight characters at the same time (max under same world) so that they could switch between them immediately to actually "trade" items!...

Such system would also mean loads of fun for everyone, including myself!...

[Niwashi]

The game allows you to do everything with a single character, but it's not forcing you to. If you prefer each character to focus on just one job, then do so. (In fact, you'll have an advantage at endgame that way, by having separate caps and lockouts per job.)

Your account can have eight characters per server. If you divide them between a couple servers (or a couple accounts) you could have a separate character for every job in the game if you want. You'd need to get the first 15 levels of another class for your job unlock (but face it, the first 15 levels is barely any time at all), and should eventually get several levels of a couple classes for cross-class skills, but at least on combat classes, you don't need to advance any of the secondary classes to end game levels. (Ok, Mantra is a bit of a stretch at PUG 42, but nothing else goes higher than 34. THM and MRD provide all their cross-class skills by 26.)

The only big exception to this is for Disciples of the Hand. You do need to advance all the crafting classes on the same character in order to do well. So even if you split out your combat jobs between characters, you'd probably want to designate one of those characters as your crafter. Make everyone's crafted items with that character and pass them to the others through your FC chest. (Just be sure to either join or form an FC that will allow all your alts that access.)



This is not to say I don't think SE could do a better job of letting us coordinate between alts. It would be really nice to be able to pass items between them either through mog mail or a shared chest (like the FC chest, but shared between our alts rather than between our FC mates). And it would be good to be able to share a personal house with our alt characters. But even while working within the system we have now, you can already separate out jobs between characters if you want to.

[Niwashi]

In order to implement trading between alt characters (under same account) Square Enix would have to create a system where players could log in with up to eight characters at the same time (max under same world) so that they could switch between them immediately to actually "trade" items!...

They could open up mail between alt characters without needing them to be logged in at the same time. Either change the rule that currently says you can only mail items to characters on your Friend list to instead say you can mail items to either Friends or alts on the same account, or else just have all your alts automatically added to your Friends list.

[Shurrikhan]

When in doubt, the answer is "Retainer fee revenue".

In all other cases, you're actually doing it right, by SE's own designs, by leveling each job on a separate character, as you'd otherwise be able to only gear one. Thematic conflict much?