Feeling punished for having alts...

[Rasikko]

No, I'm talking about why SE decided to Fort Knox the concept of alts in this game, which has been a convenient non game breaking thing for the last 20yrs in MMOs, and it's especially a thing in FFXI. I have alts as well, in fact my forum account is of my alt, and it'd be great if I could transfer things between this and my main character.

[Halivel]

No, I'm talking about why SE decided to Fort Knox the concept of alts in this game, which has been a convenient non game breaking thing for the last 20yrs in MMOs, and it's especially a thing in FFXI. I have alts as well, in fact my forum account is of my alt, and it'd be great if I could transfer things between this and my main character.

I doubt that they dezigned it intentionally, probably just didn't really think about it or there is something on a technical level what doesn't allow them to make keeping alts more comfortable - our noodle code isn't a big secret really. Plus, it's hard to say what should be done to begin with because different people have different view on that. For instance, I can agree with the fact that things like housing and event glamours should be shareable, but quests and achievments, imo, should not. At the same time there can be people who thinks that housing should be separated and achievments should be shareable. Just as example.

[Kytrin]

I doubt that they dezigned it intentionally, probably just didn't really think about it or there is something on a technical level what doesn't allow them to make keeping alts more comfortable - our noodle code isn't a big secret really. Plus, it's hard to say what should be done to begin with because different people have different view on that. For instance, I can agree with the fact that things like housing and event glamours should be shareable, but quests and achievments, imo, should not. At the same time there can be people who thinks that housing should be separated and achievments should be shareable. Just as example.

I would literally give up every possibility of sharing anything with my alt for the ability to just mail stuff to her.

[Halivel]

I would literally give up every possibility of sharing anything with my alt for the ability to just mail stuff to her.

Yeeeeeaaah, this one certainly could me much easier. I'm not strictly against of limiting emails to friends-only, but not being able to add alts to friend list with this limitation is kind of painful. You don't always have a 3rd person that can act as middleman.

[Dawn_FF14]

I would literally give up every possibility of sharing anything with my alt for the ability to just mail stuff to her.

Wait... What?! We can't mail stuff to alts???

Well, after some google search on how friend invite works, now I understand (still kind of new to this game). This is a total disappointment to me. I've always enjoyed my family of alts in MMOs, and I've never thought this sort of limitation could ever exist...

So, I'm going to switch my subscription to Entry when time comes then. Maybe voting with my wallet would help to get the voice heard? Maybe?

[Iscah]

Wait... What?! We can't mail stuff to alts???

Well, after some google search on how friend invite works, now I understand (still kind of new to this game). This is a total disappointment to me. I've always enjoyed my family of alts in MMOs, and I've never thought this sort of limitation could ever exist...

So, I'm going to switch my subscription to Entry when time comes then. Maybe voting with my wallet would help to get the voice heard? Maybe?

While it's not a perfect solution, if you have multiple alts on one world then you can sign them all up to the same FC and use the company chest as a middle step to pass things between characters.

Or (particularly if you're on an entry sub with alts in different worlds) you can pester a friend to hold stuff for you. You can only pass five items and 1 million gil per trade though.