Trading between alts

[Sated]

Would love to be able to give items to my alts.

It's grown tiring to help traffic items from my friends to their alts, and to ask the same of them for mine when we should just be able to send items ourselves.

Because if they did allow such a thing, demand for paid retainers would plummet.

I doubt it would have any significant impact. Alts are not efficient storage, especially with how small and clunky the mail system is, plus the limit on characters.
I just want to create a new set of gear on my crafter and give it to my alt. It shouldn't be that complicated.

[Voltyblast]

I doubt it would have any significant impact. Alts are not efficient storage, especially with how small and clunky the mail system is, plus the limit on characters.

Still free space though. If players could send mails to their "bank alts" they would do it in a blink of an eye: FREE inefficient storage system still beats PAID inefficient storage system.

Now if we could have a sort of storage room that is account bound, that would solve a lot of issues but Square is determined to nickel and dime on those retainers so...

[Aramina]

Still free space though. If players could send mails to their "bank alts" they would do it in a blink of an eye: FREE inefficient storage system still beats PAID inefficient storage system.

Now if we could have a sort of storage room that is account bound, that would solve a lot of issues but Square is determined to nickel and dime on those retainers so...

No. I wouldn't. Retainers are not inefficient, well not comparatively. I would trade a few things between alts, but I would never give up my paid retainers. I don't went to spend the entirety of my playtime mailing stuff back and forth.

[Voltyblast]

No. I wouldn't. Retainers are not inefficient, well not comparatively. I would trade a few things between alts, but I would never give up my paid retainers. I don't went to spend the entirety of my playtime mailing stuff back and forth.

Well it's either that or keep your paid retainers in check, just like I did. I didn't spend a single dime on them since it's incredibly unfair and other games, most of which are f2p, offer better banking systems that can be expanded both with real money and in-game money. And they're also permanent.

But if I could I would, still saves me 2 bucks on an already underwhelming subscription that IN MY OPINION (gotta put that on caps because opinions are dangerous online) barely feels worth it nowadays: you don't get much out of it besides accessing the game and lots of customization features that should've and could've been easily ingame (Sleipnir is a cash shop items despite having an Odin trial AND Fate is a good example) are locked behind the overpriced cash shop.
I felt more rewarded subbing to SWTOR and the deceased Wildstar: they at least give you cash shop currency for your shopping - I'm probably sitting at 7k CC in SWTOR thanks to the key alone, and I haven't played that game in a while!

Sure 2 bucks are nothing but that's 24 euros saved in a year, almost 2 months of subs, up to 144 if you use all 6 of the available retainers, money that I can use for many better things than a flimsy, inefficient, lousy, clunky and overall underwhelming "banking" system, which at least we agree on that.

But you do you though!

[Aramina]

Well it's either that or keep your paid retainers in check, just like I did. I didn't spend a single dime on them since it's incredibly unfair and other games, most of which are f2p, offer better banking systems that can be expanded both with real money and in-game money. And they're also permanent.

But if I could I would, still saves me 2 bucks on an already underwhelming subscription that IN MY OPINION (gotta put that on caps because opinions are dangerous online) barely feels worth it nowadays: you don't get much out of it besides accessing the game and lots of customization features that should've and could've been easily ingame (Sleipnir is a cash shop items despite having an Odin trial AND Fate is a good example) are locked behind the overpriced cash shop.
I felt more rewarded subbing to SWTOR and the deceased Wildstar: they at least give you cash shop currency for your shopping - I'm probably sitting at 7k CC in SWTOR thanks to the key alone, and I haven't played that game in a while!

Sure 2 bucks are nothing but that's 24 euros saved in a year, almost 2 months of subs, up to 144 if you use all 6 of the available retainers, money that I can use for many better things than a flimsy, inefficient, lousy, clunky and overall underwhelming "banking" system, which at least we agree on that.

But you do you though!

Well yeah, it's all opinion. For me, I look at it as even sub + retainers is still one of my more cheap hobbies and one that I probably spend the most time doing, so it is still money well spent.

[YatoShishi]

I also wish our alts FINALLY could use the main characters house and other way around. I know they said they will work on that buts its been a long time now since they said it and never heard of it again )=

[Kyloran]

Thanks for your support (mostly) folks. There numerous reasons to want to trade to your alts, and I am glad that some of us see that.

[Colino]

Some of us don't wanna tank with a Lalafell.

Uh oh... Is that casual racism I'm spotting? D:

Thanks for your support (mostly) folks. There numerous reasons to want to trade to your alts, and I am glad that some of us see that.

I'd like to have it just because more options is always better and I don't really see the harm in it, one example for me is event items that are only equippable by the other gender. Why shouldn't I be able to send it to my alt which is female for example?

[Skivvy]

Uh oh... Is that casual racism I'm spotting? D:

I think they probably meant it in the sense they consider it to be strange tanking with a tiny little potato. Tiny things kicking arse amuses me greatly, but I can appreciate not everyone views it the same.

[Iscah]

And some people just like creating multiple characters.

I have my main character that does everything, then alts for replaying story and a few chosen jobs each, plus they’re fun for trying out different styles of glamours. I don’t want to transform the one character into different races repeatedly, I want four individual characters.

Being able to share items between them would be fantastic, because my main character has high-leveled crafters and a lot more gil.

(Less likely but extra-nice would be the ability to share dungeon drops, since it’s ever so frustrating when Character A ends up with the item I be been wanting to get for Character B for ages... doubly so if it looks awful on the character who did get it. )