mailing alts

[GetFoesReqd]

I don't understand how preventing mailing things to your own alts would even affect RMT. I'd love to hear their argument behind that. In any case, I support removing this restriction 100%. I have a handful of alts on Gilgamesh and this would make things a lot more pleasant. Let us mail to our alts! ^_^

[Alisi]

I don't understand how preventing mailing things to your own alts would even affect RMT. I'd love to hear their argument behind that. In any case, I support removing this restriction 100%. I have a handful of alts on Gilgamesh and this would make things a lot more pleasant. Let us mail to our alts! ^_^

Me too: considering the fact that gil farmers use multiple computers and it's really easy to set up an fc of their own to transfer stuff. They can keep the prohibition to not mail people who aren't friends, but make an exception for alts (or allow us to friend alts.) It would be nice compensation for having to deal with random RMT people trying to friend you. I get that they thought there wouldn't be alts but they allowed us to have more than one character on a server so they should pony up and let us send things to ourselves.

[Aylis]

I don't understand how preventing mailing things to your own alts would even affect RMT. I'd love to hear their argument behind that. In any case, I support removing this restriction 100%. I have a handful of alts on Gilgamesh and this would make things a lot more pleasant. Let us mail to our alts! ^_^

I feel its more about discouraging people playing alts then anything RMT related. It does nothing to stop RMT. RMT will always find a way around any restrictions put into place. Even if it did hinder RMT, taking away any QOL benefit to the normal player over small fears isn't a very smart thing to do and is a really bad business sense choice. Deal with RMT as they come, never deny QOL features to players.

[Alisi]

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But that makes no sense because they get more money by way of a subscription if people have alts than they do if people don't have alts. If they really, truly wanted to discourage people playing alts, they'd jack up the subscription fee more or make it so that, when you buy extra retainers, you only get them on one character. The artificial restrictions are easy enough to circumvent already (albeit they're a pain in the booty.) Friends, the MB, or FCs all work.

It might, if you look at it another way, be a nice way to free up houses too, since you can technically have two houses (an fc and a personal one) and the most popular way to transfer stuff is via personal fc's. I know a lot of people with alts have FCs just for themselves with both a fc house and personal house. Maybe if we could transfer stuff to ourselves, some people wouldn't feel compelled to make personal fcs. (Just to put a silver lining on this...)

[LaylaTsarra]

I feel its more about discouraging people playing alts then anything RMT related.

And why would you want to discourage people from playing alts? I don't get it. Having multiple characters is fun... maybe you should try it.

[Shouko]

And why would you want to discourage people from playing alts? I don't get it. Having multiple characters is fun... maybe you should try it.

The reason you can't mail things to alts is because you have to friend list the alt, which requires that alt to be on at the same time as your main. which as far as I know you can't do either pc or console. They would have to change the friend thing, then rmt spammers would just spam us to death with mail.

Alts have never been a thing that SE has handled well as FF games always controlled all the jobs/classes at once for the original RPG's and then XI came out and they stuck with the same concept but on a single character instead.

[Skivvy]

The reason you can't mail things to alts is because you have to friend list the alt, which requires that alt to be on at the same time as your main. which as far as I know you can't do either pc or console. They would have to change the friend thing, then rmt spammers would just spam us to death with mail.

Alts have never been a thing that SE has handled well as FF games always controlled all the jobs/classes at once for the original RPG's and then XI came out and they stuck with the same concept but on a single character instead.

XI let you mail things to your alts freely You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

For XIV, they really need to update the current system so that any alt on your account is automatically treated as a friend with housing privileges.

[Avatre]

You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

I would love to be able to do this. Would make it so I could keep more maps and do tons of at a time without spending anything on the maps.

[Shouko]

XI let you mail things to your alts freely You could even mail things to yourself which came in handy often.

For XIV, they really need to update the current system so that any alt on your account is automatically treated as a friend with housing privileges.

XI wasn't alt friendly is all I meant.
XI also didn't have the bot problem for RMT spam that it does in XIV at the initial time of being made, hence why they're not doing it for this. I agree it's handy to be able to mail to an alt freely but XIV isn't a free as other games sadly and it's plagued by not being able to be funded by it's own subs.

I don't really have anything to say about the house stuff.

[Skivvy]

XI wasn't alt friendly is all I meant.
XI also didn't have the bot problem for RMT spam that it does in XIV at the initial time of being made, hence why they're not doing it for this. I agree it's handy to be able to mail to an alt freely but XIV isn't a free as other games sadly and it's plagued by not being able to be funded by it's own subs.

I don't really have anything to say about the house stuff.

Is there any source as to them saying RMT is the reason why they won't unlock the mail system / make alts more user-friendly? I've always chalked it up to SE implementing things in the most ass-backwards way they could imagine.

This would be a massive QOL update for this game. Perhaps find a way to track accounts that send more than X amount of mail daily and investigate further? I'm sure they could find a way to make it work .