[Suggestion] FFXIV Alt-Friendliness

[TheRealDesastr]

I'd like to add PVP Series rewards...I don't see why time limited/exclusive stuff is NOT account bound.

Agreed entirely there. Also..weren't we supposed to get the option of getting those limited time stuff at some point in the future, I thought? Or was that just a rumour?

[localareanetwork]

Just give me an option to skip MSQ on an alt, please..

[flowerkatie]

The game is so alt-unfriendly, that you can't even mail your own characters items, a feature that has been in MMOs for bloody years.

The reason other MMO's have this (prime example, WoW) is because you are required to have an alt if you want to experience all the classes. Unlike Final Fantasy where it is possible to play every job under one character.

[Alchemii]

The reason other MMO's have this (prime example, WoW) is because you are required to have an alt if you want to experience all the classes. Unlike Final Fantasy where it is possible to play every job under one character.

Except FFXI has had this feature from the very beginning, and you can play all classes on one character from the very beginning.

[Bright-Flower]

This is also the game that still hasn't added a UI for egi/fairy glamour and you have to type out a text command to adjust it.

I love FFXIV but dang is the game cheap and behind the times in some ways even for 2013. I don't want to say 'lazy' because it's probably more a staffing and budgeting thing and not the team just not caring, but it's very noticeable. Apparently in some ways even compared to FFXI in some ways like mailing stuff to alts, a game predating not just FFXIV but WoW as well.

[Ramiee]

The game just needs to bomb again so we can get ARR 2.0 so the team has to play wow again and see their new alt-friendly system they've developed for the war within.

[seraseth]

I like this idea quite a bit! An add on I have, though it may be too much is; Say our main has Ninja unlocked, we make an alt and instead of them having to level up to 15, then do the Rogue/Ninja quests, they have it unlocked already at level 1 and just need to level it up.

I would love to be able to take any job at level 1 and level with it. I don't want to play 60,70,80 levels on a job I don't want to play, just to unlock the one I do want to play.

I don't even care if it has 1 button from lvl 1 to lvl 20. I chose to play it at that level, that's on me.

[TheRealDesastr]

...You can mail stuff to alts in FFXI? How can we not in.. oh my gods. /facepalm

My mind is boggled.

[Chasingstars]

The only way to mail stuff over to an alt in ffxiv, without friends, is literally to have a second service account, your "mule", who itself has an alt. Such mules, aside from mailing services, are also used for item storage and the creation of free companies.

So even if you only plan to have 1 character on the mule account, that is an extra $12.99 per month for a basic service that other mmorpgs already have for free. It is basically the equivalent of paying for 6 & 1/2 extra retainers for your account for one retainer who has post office access.

[KisaiTenshi]

The game is so alt-unfriendly, that you can't even mail your own characters items, a feature that has been in MMOs for bloody years.

The reason for that is to keep people from using alts as "item/shop mules" , because that IS what people do on other games. Especially bots. Ever see someone stand outside a guild chest for hours doing things really really fast? That's a bot. They are using the chest as the work-around.

Like make up your mine SE. If the worry is what I described, then the guild chest should be inaccessible to players not subscribed. If that's not the concern, then simply owning a house and assigning your other characters to the house as tenants should also be a possible thing, and there should also be an item storage locker in the house to allow dropping off outfits for the mannequins and items being held in reserve to put on the marketboards . Otherwise players will just use alternate characters as storage lockers, even if they can't access the retainers.