Why do some people seem personally offended by people who have more than 1 character?

[SturmChurro]

I don't think a player really does need alts, quite frankly. SE's own design isn't even alt friendly, and I'm pretty sure a few months ago when people were asking about alts, Yoshida just said to buy boosts or a story skip, rather than make the experience better for altoholics (?).

I do have my own alt regardless - that I barely play - just in case there is someone I might want to play with on another datacenter, but now with datacenter visit coming, even that will be obsolete.

[Kozh]

Most people there seem to hate fan art and cosplay ( especially if it's female characters ).
Imo fan art and cosplay has more of a place ( and also requires far more effort ) on a fanpage than copy pasted memes.

Fan art and cosplay sometimes sits in the positive but usually has still been massively downvoted too.

Lol you kidding me? If anything female character fanart 9 out of 10 will be massively upvoted, especially if they got big chest or borderline nsfw.

[Kobalos]

Roleplayer here I have about 14 characters that I use for rp. All with their own personal stories and characteristics

[Ferra]

I'm going to because I RP and want to RP as different things. As much as I love being a Highlander punch lady maybe I feel like being something else.

Know you can be anything with just one character and you gotta do the MSQ to unlock things but variety is the spice of life! Worth the little bit of suffering.

[Kes13a]

for a group that is more about screaming "you dont pay my sub" sure is a lot of ragging on other people for their choices...

me personally, I dont care what someone else does or how many characters they want to have.

I have come from MANY mmos where I have MANY alts. for me, this is a nice change, I dont have to think about what I want to play any given day, I dont have to scrabble around looking through inventory for that thing I know I had, somewhere on someone. if someone else wants to make a ton of alts? doesnt bother me at all, its their dime, they can do what they wish as long as it doesnt affect my ability to play and have fun.

[Remish]

Wat.

It's a valid question to most people I think asking it doesn't mean that you're offended.
And basically ANYTHING on the FFXIV reddit that isn't a meme gets downvoted to hell.

Even actual useful guides get downvoted I dunno what in the actual hell is wrong with people there but they've got serious issues.

That's why I'm glad the forums doesn't have a downvote button. I'm convinced if we had one you would see way more negative digits than positive. We rarely upvote on these forums as it is.

[ItMe]

That's why I'm glad the forums doesn't have a downvote button. I'm convinced if we had one you would see way more negative digits than positive. We rarely upvote on these forums as it is.

Yeah, I'm with you.
If they did I probably wouldn't be here.



But on topic, the only person I know who rags on others for using alts does so tongue in cheek because their main character was originally an alt.

[Payadopa]

Because it's a lalafell.

[MicahZerrshia]

Whenever someone asks about alts...

They're the ones who always scream "why would you want more than one character???", "You don't need alts" (or if on Reddit downvote the post into oblivion), etc...

It seems like the idea actually offends them.

I am completely surprised you were able to find a post on reddit that wasn't a manga/chibi style drawing of someone's character or the sea of uwu. I dropped the xiv reddit just cause it was giving me flashbacks of the time I spent managing the only store in town that sold anime lol. I already can't watch anime anymore, I didn't want this game ruined for me too lol

[Alaray]

I don't think a player really does need alts, quite frankly. SE's own design isn't even alt friendly, and I'm pretty sure a few months ago when people were asking about alts, Yoshida just said to buy boosts or a story skip, rather than make the experience better for altoholics (?).

I do have my own alt regardless - that I barely play - just in case there is someone I might want to play with on another datacenter, but now with datacenter visit coming, even that will be obsolete.

Player's don't need alts, but there are a lot of players that like to have and utilize alts for a variety of reasons that can stem from RP characters, wanting to raid on other datacenters, doing split raiding to gear up faster, wanting a different aesthetic choice, and before the game launched there were people who considered leveling different alts with different job focuses to save down on inventory space. These are all valid reasons to want to have an alt character, and for a long time the game's been incredibly alt un-friendly. Can't mail anything to a new alt without getting a friend involved, can't choose to skip through MSQ on an alt even though you've already done the MSQ and the MSQ doesn't provide any real differences when replaying it -- there's no harder version of it to do to game-ify the experience a bit more and so on. Have to re-unlock everything on an alt and, for some normal fights, that can be an exceptionally long queue time and so on and so forth.

Being told to buy a boost if you want an alt is akin to being told to buy a glamour prism on the Mogstation if you want to change your look with the addendum that in order to play FFXIV, you don't need to design an outfit for your character. It's not a costumer friendly solution and it just comes off in poor taste to me.