Would be nice so when I make gear for my alt that I could just mail the character the stuff directly. Much better than having to go to an FC chest for deposit/withdrawal or have to send it to a third party, both which have their own risks.

I'm not talking about shared retainers, which for some reason that gets lost in translation and the Japanese devs think that's what asked. I'm just asking if it'd be nice to be able to add the characters as friends so I can move gear/items around which would be no different than sending it to another person.

But apparently that would allow more RMT activity. Because it's so well handled, right?

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Man, I missed out on the exploit in 2.0 launch where you could add an alt to your friends list which was patched in 2.1.