Trading items to myself : Mission Impossible

[Allistar]

What exactly is the point of alts in this game?

I created multiple characters during 1.0 to store and sell all the stuff I had accumulated in the game...it was risky way to do it, but the game was pretty much slow by that time and now in ARR all my stuff was scattered across my other characters...would like to do some clean up.

[DoctorPepper]

I created multiple characters during 1.0 to store and sell all the stuff I had accumulated in the game...it was risky way to do it, but the game was pretty much slow by that time and now in ARR all my stuff was scattered across my other characters...would like to do some clean up.

You realize you necroed a thread from September 2014 right?

Let's be honest here guys, the real reason they don't want to allow this is because then nobody would pay $4/month for the 2 extra retainers. I don't believe for one second that this prevents or hinders RMT in any way since RMT use multiple accounts anyways.

[kyuven]

Let's be honest here guys, the real reason they don't want to allow this is because then nobody would pay $4/month for the 2 extra retainers. I don't believe for one second that this prevents or hinders RMT in any way since RMT use multiple accounts anyways.

As I've said numerous times and will continue to say: It's not a direct way to combat RMT, it's a consequence.
You can only send mail to people on your friends list (this is to prevent mail spam, which is a very real issue with RMTers and IS actually working)
You cannot send friend invites to offline players (Another issue. Can you imagine how many friend requests from RMTers we would have to deal with if this wasn't the case?)
Therefore, since you can't log in 2 characters from the same account in at once (there's a whole host of reasons why they do this and this has been a thing since before even FFXI) you can't friend yourself, and you can't send mail to yourself.
Since making it so you could would require effort and the payoff is minimal at best (the majority of plays don't actually make judicious use of alts compared to other games. There is no **PRACTICAL** reason to have more than 3 anyway. RPers need not apply for that.) they've opted to simply not directly fix it.
Call it "laziness" but I can say with absolute certainty that this is NOT the only game that prevents this by a long shot.

[Niwashi]

You can only send mail to people on your friends list (this is to prevent mail spam, which is a very real issue with RMTers and IS actually working)
You cannot send friend invites to offline players (Another issue. Can you imagine how many friend requests from RMTers we would have to deal with if this wasn't the case?)

Neither of which has anything to do with alts on your own account. They could have the rule be that Friends and alts can send you mail, or that your alts are automatically included on your Friends list, or any of probably dozens of other possibilities, none of which would allow RMTs to send you anything unless those RMTs were alts on your own account. Transfers within a single account are completely different than transfers between accounts and don't involve any of the same RMT issues. It's not a request to freely transfer items to anyone and everyone. It's specifically a request to be able to freely tranfer items between our own alts.

[DoctorPepper]

Neither of which has anything to do with alts on your own account. They could have the rule be that Friends and alts can send you mail, or that your alts are automatically included on your Friends list, or any of probably dozens of other possibilities, none of which would allow RMTs to send you anything unless those RMTs were alts on your own account. Transfers within a single account are completely different than transfers between accounts and don't involve any of the same RMT issues. It's not a request to freely transfer items to anyone and everyone. It's specifically a request to be able to freely tranfer items between our own alts.

Exactly, but as soon as they allowed that people would spend $2/month for 8 characters (16 retainers) instead of $2/month for EACH retainer. They're not stupid, they know people don't have enough space and a lot are willing to drop an extra $4/month for that space.