Feeling punished for having alts...

[Lium]

As I said before, having alts is part of the MMO experience.

[negiman4]

As I said before, having alts is part of the MMO experience.

"It's basically mandatory in other MMOs, therefore it's a staple of MMOs and is or should be part of FFXIV."
Having alts is not part of the MMO experience. That is a conscious choice YOU made for yourself, however illogical that choice may be. Nobody made you do it, and it's not necessary for you to do it to get maximum enjoyment out of the game. FFXIV is not other MMOs. There's a lot of things FFXIV does differently from WoW or ESO. The ability to do everything on a single character is a unique feature of FFXIV, thereby rendering alts completely counter-intuitive and inefficient for FFXIV specifically.

And that one free Fantasia is going to get me how far in regularly switching between my seven characters?

I'm quite happy with how all of them look, so they're staying as they are.

Sorry not sorry that I'm not playing with my collection of virtual dolls the way you think I'm supposed to.

People who use alts will never make sense to me. If you're happy with how they look, why would you use a fantasia? My point still stands: there's no tangible, useful, or logical reason to have alts in FFXIV. All you're doing is doubling the work for yourself.

[Iscah]

People who use alts will never make sense to me. If you're happy with how they look, why would you use a fantasia? My point still stands: there's no tangible, useful, or logical reason to have alts in FFXIV. All you're doing is doubling the work for yourself.

You're the one who said people should use a Fantasia if they want to change their character. I said I'm not going to.

I have multiple characters because they're specific individual characters with their own names and appearances. They're not shapeshifters - that would be weird, not to mention expensive, requiring multiple Fantasias and name changes a week.

I made multiple characters because I like inventing them, playing with them, dressing them up and simply seeing them in action. I want to have them all available to me when I feel like doing that. That outweighs the inconvenience of levelling them up, to me, and in any case I'm selective about what I do with them compared to my main.

I think I mentioned earlier, in some ways it's actually less restrictive for glamour to keep the characters separate. Each one of them gets their own fifteen plates and 400 dresser slots. None of the plates are the same from character to character, and their dresser contents are different too. Aurelie has dresses and skirts that my male characters aren't going to wear, and her dresser is packed full without including half the things I regularly use for other characters. Sylviel and Haru are polar opposites in fashion taste. U'zolwe has more modern casual gear that I don't tend to use for others. And so on. Each one is differently tilted to what the character would wear and which classes they have levelled.

I also like the story, and first started alts specifically to replay it - though I'd already been playing around in the character creator at that point and both Bryna and Sylviel were "ready and waiting to go" as character concepts already taking on personalities.

So yeah. I can "do everything on one character"... except have multiple characters available to pick up and play with whenever I like, or manage a hundred glamour plates between them*, or - at the time I started - replay the game story in its entirety. That's what my alts are for.


...it's still not enough plates. >_>