[Suggestion] FFXIV Alt-Friendliness

[TheRealDesastr]

I really am dead set on the MSQ skip in the very least being account bound if your main has gone through MSQ. The major bar from me even touching the game or bothering to grind is the story-locked stuff. Heck, even keeping that but not locking everything behind MSQ for alts would be a pretty big solution (for example, level being the determinant to do content instead of MSQ completion.)

I know people are citing the loss of revenue for SE if they did make those books account bound, but honestly at this point I have no motivation to play the game and am just resubbing every other 45 days to keep my houses (or whatever number maximizes the time I'm not subbed but can still keep them.) I'm not going to buy their nonsense $25 story skip for every single alt I make, and am not going to bother dragging those alts through current MSQ, so have no drive to bother doing content in the game for a character I have no interest in. 'Switching mains' is too much investment for all the locks for content I already did on a main.

There is so much content that is great, but that does NOT fit for my main. I would, again, do more if it was accessible to my alts, and I have 0 desire to repeat MSQ on those characters to unlock a bit of content that fits for them. There's some rewards that would fit on some OCs, and not others. So, I just all together don't even bother at all.

My playtime is way down, as is the frequency I subscribed, they'd be making more money off of me if they did these things rather than just assuming I'll buy that skip. I won't. I just won't bother playing anymore.

I dunno if my experience is the same as others, but yeah, removing the story lock or applying the skip account bound (and updated per expansion) would actually get me to consistently stay subbed and do content depending on what fits for who.

(and - who knows, I may just be a rare player who does that instead of caving to buy the stupid book. There may be no one else that does what I do, but I am sharing this in case it could make a difference and others feel the same.)