Feeling punished for having alts...

[Avidria]

They don't suck to play. Getting some perks like sharing a house aren't unreasonable. I can share a house with a friend but not even with my own alt. Can't even use the mendor in my mains house or easily teleport to it. If alts could share a house perhaps there would be a lot fewer multiple home owners so many love to cry about. What is laughable is people coming in here saying alts aren't worth the time and effort and trying to poo poo anyone asking for some reasonable relief to make having them a bit easier.

And I might add my Main is an Omni everything and that hasn't stopped me from making alts I enjoy.

Meanwhile I'm out here wanting improvements explicitly because I think alts suck to play and having one alt for a year set me so far behind on some things that I find myself feeling irritated by it even now. That's not something I've ever dealt with in another MMO - heck, in WoW I regularly and actively switched between 3-8 characters and frequently bumped against the 50 character limit with alts I was playing less seriously or often. I never felt like I was setting myself behind either, at least until I started pushing mythic raids in Legion (screw the artifact power system tbh). Maybe the ease and fun of playing alts in other games has spoiled me, I don't know.

Frankly I'd want to see them remove the need to unlock every single one of the MANY things that need to be unlocked on an alt when you've already done them on your main, make it easier to copy hotbar and such settings over to other characters, allow mail, allow house sharing, possibly add a shared bank of some kind, and allow sharing of mounts and minions.

Things I know not everyone would agree with, but things I'd want to see at least some of for it to even be remotely worth paying an extra $2 a month for alts on the same server.

[LaylaTsarra]

Meanwhile I'm out here wanting improvements explicitly because I think alts suck to play and having one alt for a year set me so far behind on some things that I find myself feeling irritated by it even now. That's not something I've ever dealt with in another MMO - heck, in WoW I regularly and actively switched between 3-8 characters and frequently bumped against the 50 character limit with alts I was playing less seriously or often. I never felt like I was setting myself behind either, at least until I started pushing mythic raids in Legion (screw the artifact power system tbh). Maybe the ease and fun of playing alts in other games has spoiled me, I don't know.

Frankly I'd want to see them remove the need to unlock every single one of the MANY things that need to be unlocked on an alt when you've already done them on your main, make it easier to copy hotbar and such settings over to other characters, allow mail, allow house sharing, possibly add a shared bank of some kind, and allow sharing of mounts and minions.

Things I know not everyone would agree with, but things I'd want to see at least some of for it to even be remotely worth paying an extra $2 a month for alts on the same server.

I'm all for more consideration for alts. There is a lot they can do but whether they will or not is another story. I know back around 4.2 for the housing additions after the Shirogane Fiasco they talked about looking at letting alts share housing. Obviously that hasn't happened and whether or not it will is debatable. I own multiple homes and got them specifically because my alts couldn't share a house and it was permitted at that time to do so. I don't feel guilty in the least about it.

Relative to my offserver alts I create small FC's so I can share a house with them and a few friends. That works fine offserver for me but really shouldn't have to be a solution to sharing a house.

I'd be all for a common bank for many items. The idea of sharing story would be nice and now with the advent of new game plus one can replay story if they want even without an alt. I've used skips on some and took others through story before skips were a thing. It's very frustrating for me to not have Mogstation items account wide for example but I do without for the most part.

[Avidria]

I'm all for more consideration for alts. There is a lot they can do but whether they will or not is another story. I know back around 4.2 for the housing additions after the Shirogane Fiasco they talked about looking at letting alts share housing. Obviously that hasn't happened and whether or not it will is debatable. I own multiple homes and got them specifically because my alts couldn't share a house and it was permitted at that time to do so. I don't feel guilty in the least about it.

Relative to my offserver alts I create small FC's so I can stare a house with them and a few friends. That works fine offserver for me but really shouldn't have to be a solution to sharing a house.

I'd be all for a common bank for many items. The idea of sharing story would be nice and now with the advent of new game plus one can replay story if they want even without an alt. I've used skips on some and took others through story before skips were a thing. It's very frustrating for me to not have Mogstation items account wide for example but I do without for the most part.

Yeah I'm not holding out much hope, it would just be nice to be able to just hop on an alt and just *play* without worrying about having to do alllll the unlocks and alllllll the story and run all over Eorzea just to be able to do the stuff I can already do on my main. I got to around level 30 on my alt before I just decided the story skip was worth the price for not needing to slog through all of ARR again.

Lack of house sharing also made it a nightmare to consolidate all of my furniture once I stopped playing the alt. I had a house on both characters but some of that stuff is unobtainable event or cash shop stuff.

There's a tiny cynical part of me that says money is probably part of why they won't add this QoL. I hope it's just cynicism, but I know I'd be buying fantasias way less often and wouldn't have bought a skip if playing alts was more easy and fun. Then again, I'd also be paying the increased sub price if it was /shrug

Early morning thoughts lmao