[Suggestions] Please consider account-wide mounts and minions

[Culfinrandir]

How do they lose their value if the account owner still had to gain that achievement for the mount to be unlocked?

It's to do with prestige value. Instead of one character having an achievement mount, eg A12S, up to 40 per account would have it & across multiple servers. One successful static's completion of A12S (I keep using that assuming it has a mount) would therefore introduce 320 mounts rather than 8! Surely you can see how quickly it would become devalued. It would completely skew the perceived "eliteness" of end game, which seems to be one of the most important things to those who do it. That was how it was designed, whether for right or wrong.

[AmeliaVerves]

lol

This might help people with alts on different realms with their collections and is a nice feature to have for players, especially those with legacy mounts that cannot use them on their other characters.

I am in for that when it comes to mounts and minions from events.
You did it on one character? Then it should be unlocked accountwide and should be able to be bought as alt from an NPC. It would be fine if it costs a certain amount of Gil. ^^

[Dustytome]

It's to do with prestige value. Instead of one character having an achievement mount, eg A12S, up to 40 per account would have it & across multiple servers. One successful static's completion of A12S (I keep using that assuming it has a mount) would therefore introduce 320 mounts rather than 8! Surely you can see how quickly it would become devalued. It would completely skew the perceived "eliteness" of end game, which seems to be one of the most important things to those who do it. That was how it was designed, whether for right or wrong.

If they were account wide it would still only introduce 8. Also those characters can't all be on at the same time so it's not like they're creating a wall of characters all showing off the mount at the same time. While it was designed that way, change isn't necessarily bad (we can use our chocobos in queue now!). It could be less about the viewpoint when designing the current system and more the devs just not thinking ahead to multiple characters until after the singular character programming for an account had gone too far and there simply wasn't the time or resources to readjust it at that point.