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

[Moonsprite]

The only things I’d want for alts are mog station glamours account wide and being able to mail things to my alts or have one account wide retainer. Not specifically related to alt friendliness, but the new game + is disappointing because it doesn’t give any exp. I know there are lots of other ways to level, but it would be fun to level up other jobs in my favorite expansions.

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO. The things I'd like would be.

1. All characters on the same world sharing a private home if purchased by the player.
2. The minion/mount/triple triad card/orchestrion/emote lists being shared account wide. Just drop some allegan coins or something small for repeat quest rewards.
3. Friendlist/blacklist account wide
4. A small shared storage safe accessible from Inn rooms or a furnishing that can be placed in a house/apartment that all characters on the same world share.

[ameliaw]

All I want is my mogstation stuff in all my alts...
This hurts.

[Final-Fantasy]

Final Fantasy XI allows you to send items and Gil to whoever's character name you type in to the Delivery Box, so if you wanted to you could send anyone just about anything.
This is handy for Alt's as it allows you to also send Alt characters on your account-Bound items usually not tradeable.

We need some way to share stuff with Alt's in this game.

[True-to-Caesar]

They prevent alt friendliness/QoL so you can buy boosters and other services.

[Raoabolic]

They prevent alt friendliness/QoL so you can buy boosters and other services.

It's called peak demand pricing. :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrUvpLSWvCs

[Striker44]

They prevent alt friendliness/QoL so you can buy boosters and other services.

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.

[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.