Feeling punished for having alts...

[Alaray]

It's pretty bad, and it'd be nice if there was basic MMO functionality when it came to having different characters.

Gets kinda boring being on 1 data center, with 1 character, with 1 specific look.

Other MMO's have most of these functions for alts, and those functions didn't cause the downfall of the game and just... let people have some more variety in their life.

And, sorry-not-sorry, the SHB msq the second time through is really uninteresting.

[Tlamila]

For those who don't see the need for alts, that should only concern yourself, not others. I personally don't see the need for extremes, savages, raids, etc, that doesn't mean other people are nonsense for wanting them.
And no, a fantasia and an alt are not the same, I don't think it's hard to understand.

I fully agree alts should have less limitations, we already pay more for having them, at least make them easier. The not being able to pass items is the one that always troubled me the most. When I made this character I was back to the game after years and the game had changed completely, so it was easier to start anew. Also because returners get absolutely no bonuses and my old BiS armor was actually much lower level than what you got after from just story, so at all effects was undergeared. Since the old character had weaver levelled up I thought I could at least use her for some gear but nope.
I don't know about all the achievements, but at least sharing some hard unlocks? Most achievements I think should be per character though.
Housing i don't really care about having it shared.
For skipping MSQ there's already the potion so...but some slightly faster xp, similar to armory bonus for additional classes would be nice, even if a small %.

[JohnSeal]

I totally, totally agree with the OP! I created 1 alt so I could do more savage but honestly never managed to go ahead with it because seems depressing doing everything from the begin without any short cut. My only request on this matter for SE is: please make AT LEAST mounts and Armoire (for glamours), seasonal items account wide. PLEASE (:

[Shurrikhan]

Feeling punished for having alts...

Can only pick one or the other:

• QoL via all jobs on same character, or
• Multiple sets of weekly lockouts, and currencies, and bank slots via separate characters.

I can't say I agree that such should be the case, but it's still a better position than you'd have in most MMOs. If you want to play seriously across multiple armor classes, then like any other MMO, you take alts. Otherwise, you have some XIV-unique QoL.

[Avidria]

There is no good reason to have an alt.
The reason I like this game so much is because all your alts technically exist on one character. Everything is already shared, story progress included.

For a while a played an alt because I had friends in two different datacenters, primarily because some of them live in EU and thus, played on an EU datacenter. My options were make an alt, or pull out my wallet and server transfer every time I wanted to play with one group or the other. Which would be both silly and impractical.

Just because you don't see any good reasons for alts doesn't mean they don't exist.

[Sated]

I really wish housing was shared, especially considering my alts cannot have their own houses.

I also wish glamour was stored better, like Blizzard's transmog systems. Something account-wide and progress-tracking. If it bound to you at any point you've unlocked the item's look on your account and can access it when creating glamour plates with no need to physically store or hang onto the item. Any cosmetics purchased from the Mog Station should also be account-wide - and until a better solution to glam storage is found, should also go in the Armoire.

But for actual content I don't mind doing MSQ again and job quests again (it's part of why I play alts), and if I do want to skip something there exist services for that. I also do my EX and weeklies on my alts, and the holiday events on my alts - that's part of actually playing them, because what's the point otherwise?

The QoL stuff though... it's bad enough on main, just feels worse on alts. General improvements are needed.

[Dzian]

I can't see how you can say you are being punished. The entire game is built in way that you don't have to create alts, unless you wanted to play on a different data centre or with a different character look. Granted, i think housing should be shared across all of your characters on the data centre.

The thing is, even for story replay-ability they have created New Game Plus so more and more there is less incentive for us to create and play alts. Which to me can only be a good thing.

For most people it's just a cosmetic thing. If progression was shared account wide it would free up a lot of cosmetic options. Maybe my tank paladin could be a big hulking roegadyn. While my bard is might be a aura. And my astromogian an elezen.

Glamour is the endgame of XIV as everyone knows and some glamour looks better on some races than others. Which is why alts often appeal to people.

Yes there are fantasias but coughing up $6 everytime you switch jobs is beyond crazy it's not even an option.

[linay]

Yet with NG+ I can do this. Yet I can functionally do identical to this by grabbing GLD and hitting up Sastasha.

That's not the same thing as it's still the same character. Changing job or utilizing NG+ does not change what that character has done.

[gman1311]

Then don’t have an alt

[LaylaTsarra]

Then don’t have an alt

Alts are fun. I have a few of them. Personally I wish there was more support such as being able to friend them, share a house, maintain a shared minion and mount bank. I would also like to see more done with MogStation and it's support for account wide content/sales.