Would you want account progression?

[Iscah]

Consider though that people have bought mounts and cosmetics multiple times for multiple characters. Is the money they spent just.. gone? Same for people who bothered to unlock titles/achievements/progression on alts. Are all the hours they spent just "oh .. we changed that , sorry you wasted your time?"

Ultimately, people decided at the time they bought the thing that they were willing to pay X (money, time, whatever) for the thing.

Expecting compensation would be like expecting every single shop you ever bought something from to give you a refund if they reduce the price of the product later.

[Shiazirah]

Sometimes I want to play another race without having to fork out £5 for fantasia, but the work to have a character at the end game to play with friends is too high and would take me at least 3-5 weeks to get passed story without a skip.

The game is very good at placing arbitrary walls in front of you to squeeze more money. This causes more burnout in my mind, and not going to play another game is not an excuse for poor design by game developers.

Yeah, i try to get my second char through the MSQ and its just a pain in da ass... thinking at the book to skip to the start of endwalker came in my mind more and more often, and there are more characters waiting (roleplayer) having as example 5 characterplates to switch between would be a solution, even if it means i have to get nude before switching, but much better than fanta all the time... no wonder fanta is the most sold item of them all??

[Alleo]

I would want this only for items that we pay real money for and seasonal events. (Simply because we have to pay real money if we miss it) Everything else does not need an account progression (imo).

[Packetdancer]

The game is very good at placing arbitrary walls in front of you to squeeze more money. This causes more burnout in my mind, and not going to play another game is not an excuse for poor design by game developers.

While I agree that they make paying for things a way to have a lot of conveniences, I would also note that the fact that I can do literally all the things on one character also removes a fair number of walls.

I have played more than a few games where you get to have exactly one class per character, and if you want to play a different thing... welp, enjoy starting at ground zero in terms of everything. What content's available, how far you are in the MSQ, what zones you have access to, etc. When I was playing WildStar, I seriously considered trying out Medic. But then I thought "I have already leveled an Exile Spellslinger/Explorer and a Dominion Engineer/Scientist, and have an Exile Esper/Settler about halfway through the game; I lack the energy to level a fourth character from ground zero."

(And then the game went away. Guess I'll never have a chance to seriously try Medic now!)

On FFXIV, if I go "I think I've lost all common sense, reason, and ability to recognize when I'm about to cause myself immense frustration -- let's level black mage!" I can at least do it on the same character, with access to everything I've earned while playing other jobs. Ones I enjoy. (I swear, I only ever level black mage because it changes so often from level to level that I keep telling myself that maybe in another 10 levels, it will change into something I actually enjoy playing.)

Now, that said, there are plenty of other reasons to have multiple characters. Roleplayers often like to have multiple ones, I have a secondary alt here on Leviathan to raid on without screwing friends out of chests, I have a much-neglected character on a different datacenter to play with friends there, etc. But one of the big reasons in any other game is "I've played <X> for a while now, I think I'd like to try my hand at <Y>", and that one, FFXIV lets you do without having to start entirely anew.

(Edit: Yikes, I am terrible at proofreading my own posts when I'm insomniac and it's 1:30am.)

[Vryn]

While I agree that they make paying for things a way to have a lot of conveniences, I would also note that the fact that I can do literally all the things on one character also removes a fair number of walls.

I have played more than a few games where you get to have exactly one class per character, and if you want to play a different thing... welp, enjoy starting at ground zero in terms of everything. What content's available, how far you are in the MSQ, what zones you have access to, etc. When I was playing WildStar, I seriously considered trying out Medic. But then I thought "I have already leveled an Exile Spellslinger/Explorer and a Dominion Engineer/Scientist, and have an Exile Esper/Settler about halfway through the game; I lack the energy to level a fourth character from ground zero."

(And then the game went away. Guess I'll never have a chance to seriously try Medic now!)

On FFXIV, if I go "I think I've lost all common sense, reason, and ability to recognize when I'm about to cause myself immense frustration -- let's level black mage!" I can at least do it on the same character, with access to everything I've earned while playing other jobs. Ones I enjoy. (I swear, I only ever level black mage because it changes so often from level to level that I keep telling myself that maybe in another 10 levels, it will change into something I actually enjoy playing.)

Now, that said, there are plenty of other reasons to have multiple characters. Roleplayers often like to have multiple ones, I have a secondary alt here on Leviathan to raid on without screwing friends out of chests, I have a much-neglected character on a different datacenter to play with friends there, etc. But one of the big reasons in any other game is "I've played <X> for a while now, I think I'd like to try my hand at <Y>", and that one, FFXIV lets you do without having to start entirely anew.

(Edit: Yikes, I am terrible at proofreading my own posts when I'm insomniac and it's 1:30am.)

True, but eventually, the amount of content needed on one character becomes the biggest wall in the game. It would be good if we could have an account-wide level progression system or have the ability to grant levels to our alts or jobs we don't want to play. We should also have the ability to skip the recent Arc if we have done it on one character already.

The argument that everything can be done on one character is poor because if we only need one character, then why give us eight character slots as a choice.

[Dzian]

While it would be a nice thing to have it's mostly unnecessary. Since the game is specifically designed around single character progression relatively few people regularly play alts in the first place. The issue just doesn't affect the majority of players.

I'd play my alts a lot more and perhaps have even more of them if progression was shared. maybe i'm super happy with my Warrior being a big bad roegadyn, but want my summoner to be a lalafell and dragoon to be a miquote. but really dont wanna be trapsing the msq and everything multiple times.

[SannaR]

Not sure how people would feel about achievements. Like I have an alt that's sitting right at the end of 2.0 msq. Only really made them so I could attend a wedding on the server they're on. Yet if this applied to everything they'd have achievement stamps for things they don't even have unlocked or are even at a high enough level to have done. Wouldn't this also allow for people to stalk and harass others? I mean yes they would need to look at the achievement date stamp, but I feel if they're already stalking a person they probably already have looked at that info. Yet now they'd also know about any alts the person made in hopes they could enjoy in secret.

[SherlottaEryut]

i would love account banks for glam/mounts/minions/music and so on. It gets really old having to farm stuff on multiple characters. For the most part i don't because i have too many alts and it's just not worth it to me.

1+ yesssss

[Garnix]

There should be options when you create a character.
Like :
Which one of your other characters do you want to share mounts with?
Which one of your other characters do you want to share minions with?
Which one of your other characters do you want to share achievement completion with?
Which one of your other characters do you want to share main story progression with?
etc etc.

Edit : and of course they should add the long awaited glam log and make it possible to be account wide too.

[DezereDawn]

at a minimum, all mogstation items that aren't a consumable should be account wide without fail.