Remove the One time character restore rule!

[SilkaN]

Why would you want to delete your main character?

Because people are dumb.
"I am addicted to MMOs / have other problems that are a result of my weak personality, so I will make sure that I have no reason to come back by deleting my character!!! "
a few months later
"Waaaaaaaaah why is my character gone waaaaah such a bad idea why I am I so dumb ;_; "

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Is this memes?

[Evangela]

Because people are dumb.
"I am addicted to MMOs / have other problems that are a result of my weak personality, so I will make sure that I have no reason to come back by deleting my character!!! "
a few months later
"Waaaaaaaaah why is my character gone waaaaah such a bad idea why I am I so dumb ;_; "

can't they just stop playing the game by their own will? If they have something important in real life to deal with but they still can't stop playing games then I'm doubt they'll be able to solve those real life stuffs.

[Cinno]

Deleting your character is not something to take lightly. It's not like cleaning out inventory or something, its a character.

I think the limit is fine. And hell I'd be fine if they did away with the one time allowance and left the deletion as permanent. There is absolutely positively no reason for you to delete your character unless you don't want to play that specific character anymore, ever again, and are deleting it to make room for another.

Want to quit the game? Leave your character there, in case you come back.
Having drama going on you want to escape? Server transfer, name change, fantasia, or just blacklist and ignore them. Or make an alt to play on till things die down.

I see absolutely no reason why completely deleting your character would be the right move. Again it's not something to just throw around all loosely, its deleting a character. Be thankful they even let you restore it once.

[SilkaN]

can't they just stop playing the game by their own will?

Apparently not. Weak-willed people need to do stuff like this.

[Aryalandi]

If you decided to delete your character more than once that is a decision that is entirely your problem, not SE's or anyone elses. You could easily leave it alone and take a break, unsubscribe from the game, then come back later to find your character still waiting for you.

Jump potions coming in to this makes no sense either. You aren't being forced to buy anything: just level up your new character like a normal person and do the story and re-find whatever friends you threw away when you decided that you were going to do something as heavy-handed as /erasing a person who has been through so much from existence/

think things through better next time.

You receive 0% sympathy for regretting it after the fact. I do feel bad for the character that was thrown in to the void repeatedly however..

[Serilda]

I can understand why you might do it once and regret it, but if you then do the exact same thing and expect to be bailed out again it's getting silly. It takes up the time of customer service personnel who could be helping customers who didn't voluntarily destroy their own account data.

[Assirra]

Because people are dumb.
"I am addicted to MMOs / have other problems that are a result of my weak personality, so I will make sure that I have no reason to come back by deleting my character!!! "
a few months later
"Waaaaaaaaah why is my character gone waaaaah such a bad idea why I am I so dumb ;_; "

Meh, most of the time it is because people either stop playing all together or want to play a different class while keeping the same name (this counts more for other mmo's then ffxiv tough)
If you are so addicted, stop paying for a sub, problem fixed.

[Cherub]

I mean I get it if it's once.... But twice??? Sounds like you're one quick to overreact to drama.

[Pintsized]

I'm not sure people are understanding the OP's point, SE have a one request per ACCOUNT restriction, not one request per CHARACTER. In the case of FFXI a 'request' is a single 'character', while in FFXIV as I just discovered a 'request' is up to two characters.

So, those arguing about multiple restorations per character simply don't understand the reality, and I don't think the OP is talking about that issue.