mailing alts

[LaylaTsarra]

I feel its more about discouraging people playing alts then anything RMT related.

And why would you want to discourage people from playing alts? I don't get it. Having multiple characters is fun... maybe you should try it.

[Shouko]

And why would you want to discourage people from playing alts? I don't get it. Having multiple characters is fun... maybe you should try it.

The reason you can't mail things to alts is because you have to friend list the alt, which requires that alt to be on at the same time as your main. which as far as I know you can't do either pc or console. They would have to change the friend thing, then rmt spammers would just spam us to death with mail.

Alts have never been a thing that SE has handled well as FF games always controlled all the jobs/classes at once for the original RPG's and then XI came out and they stuck with the same concept but on a single character instead.

[SigmaOZ]

I want to play house with my alts so they must be allowed to share the property just like tenants do!...

Why Yoshi-P hasn't made this happen yet!?...

[Aerlana]

The FFXIV mailing system is shit
You have to add your FC mate, LS mate to your friendlist to be able to send them mail...
Same reason you cant send mail to alts...

btw... it help the cash shop
What about up to 6 more slave to wear your things?

[Claire_Pendragon]

The REAL reason is to conserve on server space, as all that inventory being used up on alts is taking up server space.
It literally affects nothing else, nor does it help/hurt their ability to do anything other than save inventory space. (Also the mail system acts as a sort of inventory space too, as u can hold onto a ton of stuff in ur mail, w/o actually picking it up. Which I still have stuff in, from 2.0)

[Skivvy]

The reason you can't mail things to alts is because you have to friend list the alt, which requires that alt to be on at the same time as your main. which as far as I know you can't do either pc or console. They would have to change the friend thing, then rmt spammers would just spam us to death with mail.

Alts have never been a thing that SE has handled well as FF games always controlled all the jobs/classes at once for the original RPG's and then XI came out and they stuck with the same concept but on a single character instead.

XI let you mail things to your alts freely You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

For XIV, they really need to update the current system so that any alt on your account is automatically treated as a friend with housing privileges.

[Avatre]

You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

I would love to be able to do this. Would make it so I could keep more maps and do tons of at a time without spending anything on the maps.

[Shouko]

XI let you mail things to your alts freely You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

For XIV, they really need to update the current system so that any alt on your account is automatically treated as a friend with housing privileges.

XI wasn't alt friendly is all I meant.
XI also didn't have the bot problem for RMT spam that it does in XIV at the initial time of being made, hence why they're not doing it for this. I agree it's handy to be able to mail to an alt freely but XIV isn't a free as other games sadly and it's plagued by not being able to be funded by it's own subs.

I don't really have anything to say about the house stuff.

[Skivvy]

XI wasn't alt friendly is all I meant.
XI also didn't have the bot problem for RMT spam that it does in XIV at the initial time of being made, hence why they're not doing it for this. I agree it's handy to be able to mail to an alt freely but XIV isn't a free as other games sadly and it's plagued by not being able to be funded by it's own subs.

I don't really have anything to say about the house stuff.

Is there any source as to them saying RMT is the reason why they won't unlock the mail system / make alts more user-friendly? I've always chalked it up to SE implementing things in the most ass-backwards way they could imagine.

This would be a massive QOL update for this game. Perhaps find a way to track accounts that send more than X amount of mail daily and investigate further? I'm sure they could find a way to make it work .

[Ferth]

XI let you mail things to your alts freely You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

For XIV, they really need to update the current system so that any alt on your account is automatically treated as a friend with housing privileges.

Not sure when they added the functionality, but in FFXI you can even mail nearly all RA/EX items to alts on the same server as well. As far as I know the only exceptions are AF2 from dynamis and the rewards from main story missions (like raja's ring.)

Is there any source as to them saying RMT is the reason why they won't unlock the mail system / make alts more user-friendly? I've always chalked it up to SE implementing things in the most ass-backwards way they could imagine.

This would be a massive QOL update for this game. Perhaps find a way to track accounts that send more than X amount of mail daily and investigate further? I'm sure they could find a way to make it work .

I'm too lazy to look it up but I believe it was one of the questions in a live letter near when 2.0 came out.