Quote Originally Posted by LandricFrey View Post
If we could easily mail to our alts, then why would we pay for retainer services?
Ding ding ding!

That's it right there.

There was some nonsense when the game launched about this being an RMT-prevention measure.................. lol. Worked well hasn't it?

No, a far better explanation is that if you could pay the sub fee for 8 characters on a server, there'd be absolutely no reason for you to pay extra sub fees for extra retainers. I did the math on this a while back and I'll dig it up if anyone is interested but suffice it to say the data involved in 8 full blown characters on a server is far in excess of the data extra retainers on a single character creates. So it's not a data issue... it just isn't. AND we've already been told that full character and retainer data is sent to the server and saved every 15 seconds whether it needs it or not, so the bandwidth use with a bunch of extra retainers is also far greater than it would be if you had 2 retainers each on 8 characters. Nope. It's all about the extra retainer fees. They found a way to make us subscribe to bank space and they've decided to milk that.