Feeling punished for having alts...

[galbsadi]

No easy way to skip the main story to reach endgame.

Hold up now. For one, there is (costs a small amount on the mog station), and for two, half the reason I HAVE alts is to play through the MSQ again. Unlike WoW, endgame is not all there is to FFXIV. if you have a problem and want endgame to be everything again, I'd suggest you go back to RNGForAzeroth.

No shared bank.

I've played several MMOs out there, and this is the case in many of them. The exceptions have largely been games that are about dead anyhow, such as TERA.

No shared achievements.

So what? Unlike RNGForAzeroth, nobody judges you on what achievements you do or do not have on a character here.

No shared seasonal and event items.

That's similar across many games too, even RNGForAzeroth doesn't give me most of the seasonal/event items I earned on my main to my alts.

No shared housing.

This one's fair. Actually I'd argue they should take this a step further and even allow in-game friends to share houses like this too, similar to a FC house but on a smaller scale.

Store items are for one character only

Actually, that varies by item, and in some cases it'd be downright ridiculous to make them account-wide. Example: if I were to decide I don't want to level BLM on my 3rd alt, why should EVERY CHARACTER I EVER MADE EVER also get that boost for free?

And cant even send gil or materials between characters on the same server without friends or a contrived transfer on the market board.

This one's also valid. Actually, this one's probably my chief complaint about alt setup in this game.

Basic functionalities in other MMO's completely absent from this one... And we are hitting the 3rd expansion now.

In the case of mailing items to your alts, that's fair. In the case of the others, you're dead wrong, and I'd even argue FFXIV is years ahead. This is the ONLY MMO I've ever played that allows me to play upwards of 20 classes on a single character.

Sorry i guess for wanting to play different looking characters

Fantasia is for you, my friend.

not having to think about inventory always filling up because i decided to play more than one job...

This is a lie. I am level 70 everything on my main, lv61+ everything on my first alt, and lv25ish everything on my second alt...I have zero inventory issues whatsoever.