Mailing stuff to alts

[Caelan]

has there been any word lately on allowing people to send items freely to their alt characters on the same account? it would be really nice. i know this might be hard to do what with the friend list requirement for mailing, but maybe somehow alts could be automatically friended? idk

found one mention of this by SE: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1013009

Q15: Will we ever be able to transfer item/gil between characters on the same account and World?

A15: We currently have no plans to implement this feature do to various reason such as preventing RMT from abusing the feature.

so could be money, could be RMT. wish they would talk to us again about this since it's been over two years, and obviously this restriction hasn't hindered RMT significantly

also worth mentioning: some people have their alts friended due to a bug early on in ARR, and they can mail stuff to their alts while the rest of us can't

[KitingGenbu]

Dude, if they do this then no one will buy retainers...shesh. You're so selfish.

[AlphaFox]

Dude, if they do this then no one will buy retainers...shesh. You're so selfish.

Exactly why they don't allow it :3

[Youkulm]

They if they let us do this they won't make money on everyone who has all the extra retainers... so it'll neeeever happen.

Your best bet is to find an FC that's generous enough to allow you to use a page on the CC to move items between characters. If you're logging and grabbing right away it shouldn't be a problem.... or you can ask a friend you trust to trade / or mail it back to you.

I understand its more convenient to just be able to mail yourself something but it wont happen, cause money.

[Mags]

Just buy a second account, friend yourself and bam! You can now mail stuff to yourself.

[Caelan]

has this topic ever gotten a community team response?

[Solarra]

Considering you have to pay for your alts, it's not an unreasonable request.
For a paid service, the ability to make alts on the same server offers very little. Being able to 'friend' your alts or simply mail them would be a huge quality of life improvement.

[Gilraen]

While yes, the move to only allow you to mail people on your friend list was to prevent muling, it wasn't to force you into subscribing retainers. Subcription retainers wasn't a thing till months after 2.0 launched. It's intended to inconvenience RMT. XI muling was heavily used to launder gil as for the longest time there wasn't much of a limit on what you could mail outside of RA/EX items, nor to who as you manually wrote the name of who you were mailing. Understandably, RMT abused the hell out of that, millions of gil just circulating around like it's nobody's business. In this game they are trying to curb that with the mail system. I don't mind, really, but I never used mules in XI either. I had better things to spend $12 on than a character I'd never really use.

[LaylaTsarra]

Dude, if they do this then no one will buy retainers...shesh. You're so selfish.

Some people actually use alts for reasons other than additional retainer storage. I have both a level 60 pally AuRa and a level 60 bard Cat. If I could use multiple races on one account I wouldn't use alts but we can't do that either. And for those who want additional retainers with alts they can still do it using a FC chest. It's not that hard just a bit inconvenient.

[Bixillarla]

You can use Fantasia to change races whenever you feel like it.