Petition to SE - Make More Cash Shop Items Account Wide

[KisaiTenshi]

Rather than make Mog Station items account-wide, I'd better put all those items into a special NPC in game that sells them with a special, shop only, currency X (look at Crysta as example).

On Mog Station you only buy an amount of X, and that purchase is account-wide:
- if you buy 100 X, all your characters will receive +100 X in their own currency purse;
- if you make a new character, it starts with an amount equal to how much X you purchased in the past.

So you can get on any character the items you want, without flood the mog mail with items you maybe never retrieve on some character you have but currently not using.

Worth mentioning, if items are in game you can even try them before buy when we talk of clothing.

You do realize SE already has "Crysta" for this right?

The reason game companies use their "own currency" for these types of transactions is because they get free money from the unused portion sitting there unused. It also creates a situation where hacked accounts then not only get their accounts stripped, but any attached payment methods get looted. Simply put, game companies do this so that you spend more and you can't dispute it.

[LalaRu]

You do realize SE already has "Crysta" for this right?

Yes, have mentioned them.
I just don't understand what the rest of your post have in common with the topic, 'tho.

[jpmeyer]

I have multiple characters (to play on both the English and Japanese servers) and I would definitely buy more items if I knew that I only had to buy them once.

[Miste]

I have multiple characters (to play on both the English and Japanese servers) and I would definitely buy more items if I knew that I only had to buy them once.

Yeah, I know SE kinda did a system where you can do everything on one character mostly, but it seems to me a loooot of players enjoy alts and using more than one character in general. So I really think they would benefit from making more stuff account wide.

[illgot]

Yeah, I know SE kinda did a system where you can do everything on one character mostly, but it seems to me a loooot of players enjoy alts and using more than one character in general. So I really think they would benefit from making more stuff account wide.

for me it's having a lot of alts just to run ventures and store items (since I ended up friending all 8 of my own characters for character to character mailing).

[Intrepimid]

When the cash shop first started I was okay with it. Prices were relatively fair and things were account-wide for stuff like emotes. Now next to nothing is account-wide and prices on everything have risen, and they keep throwing out these 18 dollar single character outfits. It's getting a bit ridiculous. Consider this my signature.

[TheGrimace]

I would ask people to spread this thread around in the hopes that like-minded individuals could upvote the first post in the hopes that we can increase our chances of getting a response from Square-Enix. If you know someone who shares thoughts about the trend of less Promotional items being account-wide (ex: Wind-up Yotsuyu), or if you know someone who and also feels the cash shop can be improved, this thread is currently our best outlet.

[Fhaerron]

Yeah, I know SE kinda did a system where you can do everything on one character mostly, but it seems to me a loooot of players enjoy alts and using more than one character in general. So I really think they would benefit from making more stuff account wide.

I only play 1 character. However everything bought should be an addition on your account (all characters).

[Seig345]

Rather than make Mog Station items account-wide, I'd better put all those items into a special NPC in game that sells them with a special, shop only, currency X (look at Crysta as example).

On Mog Station you only buy an amount of X, and that purchase is account-wide:
- if you buy 100 X, all your characters will receive +100 X in their own currency purse;
- if you make a new character, it starts with an amount equal to how much X you purchased in the past.

So you can get on any character the items you want, without flood the mog mail with items you maybe never retrieve on some character you have but currently not using.

Worth mentioning, if items are in game you can even try them before buy when we talk of clothing.

One issue I see with this, at least an issue for SE, is the potential situation of someone creating a new character after having made many purchases of this shop-only currency, but instead of buying precisely what they'd purchased on their previous character, they start buying the latest item(s) added to the store. Perhaps Roleplayers create identical alts using the same $10 worth of currency to create screenshots and such with $20+ worth of different items, etc. Suddenly SE's cash shop team is putting $ into creating new content that people are "purchasing" with $ they already spent months ago.

Whether or not the number of people who would do this would offset the number of people who would jump off the fence into the "I'll buy!" side, I don't know, but seeing as any buyer could potentially, down the line, end up doing something like this at any time, it seems like an unlikely choice on SE's part.

[A-Rook]

If you look at other MMO's on the market such as WoW and GW2, not having account-wide items and logs is really becoming one area where FFXIV is lagging behind. Many of the MMOs on the market charge about this same amount for comparable items but they're instantly added to a collection or wardrobe and accessible on any character you make. It really is a setback for players to have to purchase and then re-purchase these when part of what we pay for with subs are alt character allowances.

One thing I'd add is that purchasable hairstyles should be specifically account-wide as well! They're included in outfit sets, but just wanted to mention.