mailing alts

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I feel like it was done this way to prevent RMT-related item/gil/whatever moving, but it's honestly been nothing but an absolute pain for regular players who happen to enjoy making alts (like myself).

Honestly I've completely avoided taking an alt of mine out of my private FC, despite wanting to try getting her in an RP FC suited to her background and goals, all because moving items or money between her and my main would be an absolute nightmare. I hate having to always ask a friend (or wait for a friend to be on) just to move one or two items at a time. ; ;

Even just the shared inventory slots idea would be a good step forward in eliminating an issue that's been prevalent for years.

[Vasala]

Yes it would be a wonderful quality of life change to let us mail to alts.

[Spirlia]

Honestly, I'd like to just skip over mailing ourselves (although it's a silly restriction) and go straight to having a "company chest"-like item strictly for ourselves and our alts. Maybe something that could be found in our in room.

[Alisi]

I don't understand how preventing mailing things to your own alts would even affect RMT. I'd love to hear their argument behind that. In any case, I support removing this restriction 100%. I have a handful of alts on Gilgamesh and this would make things a lot more pleasant. Let us mail to our alts! ^_^

Me too: considering the fact that gil farmers use multiple computers and it's really easy to set up an fc of their own to transfer stuff. They can keep the prohibition to not mail people who aren't friends, but make an exception for alts (or allow us to friend alts.) It would be nice compensation for having to deal with random RMT people trying to friend you. I get that they thought there wouldn't be alts but they allowed us to have more than one character on a server so they should pony up and let us send things to ourselves.

[Rinuko]

Honestly, I'd like to just skip over mailing ourselves (although it's a silly restriction) and go straight to having a "company chest"-like item strictly for ourselves and our alts. Maybe something that could be found in our in room.

a account wide inventory system would be nice, like in GW2

[LaylaTsarra]

I would love my alts to be able to share my house.

[OwlBlackX]

I was WoW player. This game always have mails for alts.

When first time play FFXIV and wondered why can't send us alts....

[Alisi]

I was WoW player. This game always have mails for alts.

When first time play FFXIV and wondered why can't send us alts....

Yeah, I came from WoW too. Started two months before HW hit (during WoD, that was.) So I've experienced that and the ability to send mail to your alts in that game doesn't give you a huge advantage in game money. What breaks the auction house is the bots.

[Aylis]

I don't understand how preventing mailing things to your own alts would even affect RMT. I'd love to hear their argument behind that. In any case, I support removing this restriction 100%. I have a handful of alts on Gilgamesh and this would make things a lot more pleasant. Let us mail to our alts! ^_^

I feel its more about discouraging people playing alts then anything RMT related. It does nothing to stop RMT. RMT will always find a way around any restrictions put into place. Even if it did hinder RMT, taking away any QOL benefit to the normal player over small fears isn't a very smart thing to do and is a really bad business sense choice. Deal with RMT as they come, never deny QOL features to players.

[Alisi]

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But that makes no sense because they get more money by way of a subscription if people have alts than they do if people don't have alts. If they really, truly wanted to discourage people playing alts, they'd jack up the subscription fee more or make it so that, when you buy extra retainers, you only get them on one character. The artificial restrictions are easy enough to circumvent already (albeit they're a pain in the booty.) Friends, the MB, or FCs all work.

It might, if you look at it another way, be a nice way to free up houses too, since you can technically have two houses (an fc and a personal one) and the most popular way to transfer stuff is via personal fc's. I know a lot of people with alts have FCs just for themselves with both a fc house and personal house. Maybe if we could transfer stuff to ourselves, some people wouldn't feel compelled to make personal fcs. (Just to put a silver lining on this...)