Make FFXIV More Alt-Friendly... Please??????

[Rilifane]

While I'm sure this is part of the consideration, personally I can't really hold it against them given that you can have every job on one character and both World and DC travel to join groups. When I create alts in other games, it's entirely because that's the only way to level up other classes. It doesn't even become a factor in FFXIV.

While that is your choice and there is obviously nothing wrong with it, many people enjoy leveling alts because they want to play the story again with a different feel.
Playing the story again from the start, fighting your way through the duties at the intended level and on a specific class isn't the same as going back to NG+ when you've already done everything, the class you're doing it as is in shiny Savage gear and looks and feels completely overpowered compared to the quests. Nor do you get a different character with a different race, name, gender and look for it, you'd have to Fantasia/ name change.

Seeing as the story is a big part of FFXIV it shouldn't come as a surprise that people give it more importance in terms of RP and want their character to match their current vision of what they're playing the story as. I know that some people enjoy making a whole group of little WoLs they gradually send through the story and have completely different head canon for each of them. NG+ doesn't deliver here not does playing all classes on one character. And some people simply enjoy leveling classes for the sake of levelling them or taking care of a character from scratch.
But they're still facing limitations like not being able to access their main's house, not being able to mail their other characters, not using mounts/ outfits they have acquired for real money and so on.

[Alaray]

There's very little value in force-replays of a MSQ that only forces you to replay it on an alternate character because SE sells the skip. There should be a choice, regardless, that doesn't cost either hundreds of hours or extra money for the simple desire of having an alt character for a change of pace, or to roleplay with, or to do raids on, etc...

If you make alts and want to replay the story, then the choice would be present.

If you make alts and don't want to replay the story, the choice should be present.

Story's a focus of the game, yes, but it's not like it's the Odyssey or something I'd be interested in experiencing more than once - personally.

That alone would be a massive benefit for alt-friendliness, though. Sending mail to my alts would be nice. Shared glamour. Things most games have had since 2012.

[SillyCrow]

They should just make stuff account-wide, but knowing SE they'll limit that stuff to deluxe cash shop items or pre-order bonuses. They'll blame the amount of bits their servers can handle, but we all know deep down it's a marketing ploy so they can sell more services and cash shop items.

[Ayuhra]

I know this is an old thread but the issue is still relevant.

This game being alt unfriendly is one of my major problems with it, as someone who loves making alts in MMORPGs. Sometimes I want to look at a different character but not enough to change my main.

I can accept story skips needing to be purchased, honestly. I just wish that collections were account wide like minions, mounts, emotes, hairstyles and triple triad. Also all seasonal outfits and all Mogstation mounts, minions, emotes, and glamours should be account wide.

It's a bummer to play an alt because you don't feel like unlocking anything when you know there is no account progression in FFXIV.

[Wyssahtyn]

Y'know what I'd like? Being able to choose which character to activate after downgrading from a Standard to an Entry sub.

[Rinoa_353]

I would love for my alts to share my personal home of my main if they are on the same world (all of mine are). Treat the home like a FC for your alts where they can have their own rooms and have a chest that acts like a FC chest so that you can share your gil and such with your alts. Give us the ability to choose who's name we display on the home's placard, that way, it's more immersive for RP and such.

[Floortank]

Being behind on 8-12 hours of cutscenes on your main if you take a small break is starting to become overwhelming.

I had a savage alt on Aether for all of Shadowbringers but I abandoned it in Endwalker because I hated the MSQ so much. Granted I watched every cutscene, but even skipping cutscenes it would still be the most monotonous, time wastey, pointless run around sequence of gameplay in the entire game including the original 2.x patches. The MSQ sucked so bad I quit raiding on Aether.

If I'm supposed to sink 40 hours into a game it better not have any filler, not be 90% filler.

[Duskane]

I want an account wide retainer that will allow to hold tradable stuff
pretty sure Pso2 has like some account vault

[Dhalya]

Never gonna happen, sadly they get a lot of fantasia, story skip and level skip sales from this. Im even surprised that mounts are account wide.

[Heavenchild]

I agree. It should be at least possible to share the own house with alts on the same server. The more altfriendliness the better!