Something I would genuinely LOVE is if I could "combine" characters...

[Skivvy]

I understand where the desire is coming from, but SE would lose out on a huge amount of profit if they implemented a change like this. Think of all the fantasia sales they'd be losing, and then all the people buying outfits or mounts on several characters, job boosts/story boosts on those alts, etc. Then the time spent in-game would decrease dramatically for those who have alts (no longer need to work through all those expansions, or levels, etc). Less time needed in-game, less time needing to stay subbed, etc.

XIV as it is lets you do everything on one character, and I love that about the game. I wish more games did this, honestly. But I feel like if you create an alt, you should already know what to expect with the road that lies ahead of you, and expecting progress and everything else to be shared is pushing it a bit. :X

I personally could never make an alt as it's just too much work for my liking. I don't enjoy that type of thing, and it doesn't sound like you do too much either. Perhaps it's time to put one of them to rest and just use the one to continue playing on?

The game would definitely benefit from some sort of account bound system, so if you unlock a mount or a minion on one character then it should be available on every character. Not that I need such a system myself as I only use one character but it's a system that other MMO's make use of already.

GW2 has spoiled me with this big-time. Mounts, glams, costumes, mastery-skills, bank storage, and probably other things I'm missing are all shared, and it's great. But then, that is a game where you can only do one job per character, so in my mind it makes more sense that they are far more generous when it comes to what items are shared.

Also, I don't want anyone to think I'm simply SUPER PRO-SE and that I will accept anything they deign to give us. That's definitely not the case, I feel that they do the players wrong in many other ways, but on this particular request I'm just not seeing the need so much. Would I take advantage of it? TOTALLY! I'd save so much on fantasias. @.@; But from SE's end of it, I don't really see where it would benefit them at all.