Would you want account progression?

[SannaR]

Achievements are honestly a form of progression I could live without being account wide but in many other games they are (World of WarCraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2 for example). The way it's handled in WoW is that achievements are account wide but titles can only be used on a character at a high enough level to have gotten the achievement. So as your alt levels more and more titles earned on your main becoming available. Some are still restricted, like "% of the Black Harvest" is only for Warlocks whose mains (also locks) did the Breaker of the Black Harvest achievement when it was still difficult to do. For FFXIV I can see things like Ultimate titles being character locked, those feel weird on alts.

Also for the MSQ, we could have story skips for alts but I can live without this. Then again I like redoing the MSQ sometimes. I blitz through it on servers with Road buffs.

I also would want to exclude those tied to relic weapons or crafting/gathering achievements. One could end up locking that alt out of a glamor. Since not everyone would want their alt to have crafting unlocked so it could look and feel odd for them to have a lucius ect.

[Illmaeran]

On the flip side some people like not having mounts or achievements on alts and genuinely enjoy the feeling of starting fresh. I can kinda get that too.

I started a fresh character in November to replay ARR and HW, and am very glad I did. There's something to be said for experiencing being a brand-newbie without a Gil to your name again.

There's also something to be said for having account-wide things. Here's what I'd like:

1. Minions and mounts
2. Loot. A lot of those Untradable items my retainers bring back on one character would be awfully nice to have as glams on the other.
3. Mail. Being able to mail stuff between characters would be a huge QoL improvement
4. Unlimited mailing of Gil between all characters on a world. Not between worlds, just within the one on which the gold is being mailed.
5. House/Apartment/FC Room tenancy.
6. Mogstation purchases
7. Hairstyles

I'm torn on achievements, leaning towards not, since so many of them are tied to story progression and not just random Grind X of These and similar.

[Ayuhra]

I also would want to exclude those tied to relic weapons or crafting/gathering achievements. One could end up locking that alt out of a glamor. Since not everyone would want their alt to have crafting unlocked so it could look and feel odd for them to have a lucius ect.

I honestly don't know much about crafting so I can't weigh in on that. Relic-related titles being character locked I can see.

[Vryn]

What other MMO allows you to 'play another race' on an alt without having to work through the leveling process (or pay money for a boost)?

The design of every single MMO I've played has been "You want an alt? Work for it". Suddenly that's poor design?

The only thing different in this game is that you require a separate physical subscription to send things via mail to someone. Given the problems inherent with RMT, that's a good thing.

I suppose that there could be a shared 'bank vault' ... complete with micropayments for every additional slot like games such as Blade and Souls... I don't believe that would go over well with the opposition I read about for the Moogle Store.

You have already done the work, and here is another thing it's a video game, not a job.

Other MMOs allow you to either fully level within a few hrs of efficient grind, i.e. wow, or grant far faster levelling on other characters i.e Lost Ark, Gw2, SWTOR etc.

What? Just because something stops RMT doesn't make it good. RMT is going to exist either way. All you saying is to cripple the overall user experience for 99% of the player base because one guy buys gold.

Secondly, the gear grind in the game is token-based. Thirdly just have achievements, mounts etc. be account-wide.

Instead of just complaining and using what-if arguments, grow a brain and contribute to how the goal might be achieved were not playing other MMOs where playing FF14 and it could be better.

[Packetdancer]

Mannequin sale -> Sell as set. Tax free for both parties and must be bought from the mannequin itself. Of course that just works for gear but still a heck of a lot easier than involving a 3rd party or trusting the FC chest.

I will confess I had genuinely never thought of that; it's a brilliant workaround for the gear side.

Alas, it does nothing for the more common (for me) case of raid food/pots, but still.

[DPZ2]

You have already done the work, and here is another thing it's a video game, not a job.

Other MMOs allow you to either fully level within a few hrs of efficient grind, i.e. wow, or grant far faster levelling on other characters i.e Lost Ark, Gw2, SWTOR etc.

Other MMOs don't allow you to play multiple classes on a single character. The ability to full level within a few hours of efficient grind is fairly new for WoW. How do I know? I played the game for 10 years, and had an alt for each class, both Alliance and Horde side. I know how long it used to take 14 years after initial release of that game. It wasn't a 'few hours'.

Instead of just complaining and using what-if arguments, grow a brain and contribute to how the goal might be achieved were not playing other MMOs where playing FF14 and it could be better.

Instead of wanting to turn this game into some other game you like, accept it for what it is. This is one of a very few MMOs where PC and Console users share worlds. Perhaps we should wait for all of those other games to get to that point before we demand this one be like them.

[Ayuhra]

Other MMOs don't allow you to play multiple classes on a single character. The ability to full level within a few hours of efficient grind is fairly new for WoW. How do I know? I played the game for 10 years, and had an alt for each class, both Alliance and Horde side. I know how long it used to take 14 years after initial release of that game. It wasn't a 'few hours'.



Instead of wanting to turn this game into some other game you like, accept it for what it is. This is one of a very few MMOs where PC and Console users share worlds. Perhaps we should wait for all of those other games to get to that point before we demand this one be like them.

I feel like this is a bit of a strong reaction to the conversation.

This is not a what-if conversation about dramatically changing game systems, it's about unlocking some things like mounts/minions/triple triad cards on alts. Giving what is earned on a main to an alt's collections tabs. Something like this is nice for alt players and does not affect the people who play only one character at all. (And like I said IF something like this were to happen it would have to involve some engine overhauls that would only help other areas of the game where things are a bit, let's face it, janky.)

[Packetdancer]

This is not a what-if conversation about dramatically changing game systems, it's about unlocking some things like mounts/minions/triple triad cards on alts. Giving what is earned on a main to an alt's collections tabs.

I grant it started that way.

However, at this point, the thread has also contained suggestions that completing the MSQ on one character should complete it on all your characters, and that you should be able to funnel XP from one character to level a job on another, and so on.

The justification for this being examples like "other games let you level alt characters from fresh to cap in a few hours", while FFXIV gates "I want this alt to catch up to that one" behind story skips and job boosts.

For instance...

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.

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)

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.

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.

Other MMOs allow you to either fully level within a few hrs of efficient grind, i.e. wow, or grant far faster levelling on other characters i.e Lost Ark, Gw2, SWTOR etc.

...and so on. So at this point, it seems like more than mounts and minions are under discussion.

(Side note: I think the existing armory bonus -- the chonky XP boost to any job that isn't your highest level one -- is meant to be FFXIV's equivalent to 'faster leveling of alts'.)

DPZ2's post might've been vehement, but it's not irrelevant; parts of this thread have in fact been discussing fairly dramatic changes to existing game systems. (E.g. MSQ progression, how you level jobs, etc.)

[DixieBellOCE]

Sure but the "This game has bigger issues" argument can be thrown at anything.

In this case though adding account progression would mean fixing things like how inventory is managed in this game which is a nightmare. I think addressing that would be lovely for everyone.

but once again.. you dont need alts.. are you really going to throw away 7+ years of progression on a character to play an alt once DC travel is a thing?

I sure wont.

[IdowhatIwant]

What other MMO allows you to 'play another race' on an alt without having to work through the leveling process (or pay money for a boost)?

The design of every single MMO I've played has been "You want an alt? Work for it". Suddenly that's poor design?

The only thing different in this game is that you require a separate physical subscription to send things via mail to someone. Given the problems inherent with RMT, that's a good thing.

I suppose that there could be a shared 'bank vault' ... complete with micropayments for every additional slot like games such as Blade and Souls... I don't believe that would go over well with the opposition I read about for the Moogle Store.

I never agree with DPZ2. But, he is 100% right here.