Rokien's new thread on multiple character slots

[Nabiri]

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Roki~~ I respect your opinion, but it's unfair to force it onto others. I happen to be someone who gets no enjoyment out of playing only one character. I role-play and enjoy multiple characters. There's no way I could choose only one race when I find a few of them really cool. I also like to hop on a male character sometimes. I find it's quieter. XD
I understand that you don't see a point in having multiple characters, but to someone like myself it's essential to enjoy the game. Please respect that. <3
SE just did people like me a great favour and I will more likely stay as a loyal customer for years to come because of it. I've been poor for years (last 10 years have really been bad luck), and I just couldn't afford this game easily as it was.

The ability to have more characters was already there if people wanted it. SE is just making things easier on us. Those who want multiple characters that badly would likely have had some anyways.

Thing is about having lots of chars. none of them will grow on you. In FFXI you grew with your char. You gave it personality.

This may be true for yourself, but it's not fair to say about others. It's very far from the truth for me.
All of my characters have grown on me. I feel very attached to all of them. I love the stories I make up for them and their personalities. It's always exciting to go on adventures with them. I may progress more slowly than those with one character, but that's my business. I like to take it slow anyways. This game is too fast-paced and multiple characters gives me something to do all the time. I'm never bored.

[Saiph]

I hope SE doesn't over look all the exploits that can be done with 8 chars on a server. Inventory, community, retainers, etc...

The last info we got on retainers said two retainers per account and not per character. At least thats what i heared. Of course you will be able to add more with money.

[Yellow]

Perhaps they're going to completely change the class/job system and make it more like Final Fantasy XI?

Lol.. I'm just going to point out that having an 'alt' is completely useless in a game like this.

'Alts' are where people make another character to play a different class, or do something different than their main character (not going to use the word 'experience' because I don't want to sound pretentious). In this case, the other reason you would make another character would be to look at a different race/gender/etc..

In Final Fantasy XIV one character can do anything except join multiple Grand Companies.. but then again why would you want to? I'm glad that even though your character can do anything, there are some things that create uniqueness.

[Keith_Dragoon]

1 GC per character, 1 City-state per character = 3 characters to experience them all.

Who knows what other things Yoshi-P might lock us into later. I plan to level up 2 more characters come 2.0 just for story and lore.

[Jokerz]

so your limited to eight mules

On a serious note I am interested in whether or not we'll need another character for pvp based content.

[Rokien]

1 GC per character, 1 City-state per character = 3 characters to experience them all.

Who knows what other things Yoshi-P might lock us into later. I plan to level up 2 more characters come 2.0 just for story and lore.

The only thing we should be restricted on our char is the city state, I don't agree that we should have to stick with one GC, I would like a line of quest to get out and join another.
I also don't agree with, where you have to have multi chars to do some stuff. So I hope they don't do anything of the sort like that for anything including pvp.
@Nabiri I respect that, trust me.

[Nabiri]

IF... I was forced to play only one character, indecisiveness would drive me mad. I would be deleting the character over and over again, getting bored and looking for something that suited me better. :\ Honestly.. It happened in XI. I've remade so many main characters.. Started as mithra. Eventually disliked her name. Remade her. Eventually disliked her hair. Remade her with new hair and a new name again. Eventually wanted to be a hume. Eventually wanted to be a taru. Eventually wanted to be a mithra again (with the same damn hair I started with in the first place!)

Eventually I realized I wasn't suited to just one character. When I finally made 6, I felt happy. Eventually I had less time and deleted 2 I was least attached to. I remained with 4 for the last few years and am quite attached to them all. Luckily I was able to finally decide on a main for good and promised myself to never delete her just because of how long it took to accomplish anything.

If SE only allowed me to play one character I would end up in the same situation again, quitting out of frustration because I wouldn't be getting anywhere.. (Funny isn't it? With one char I wouldn't be getting anywhere, but with many I can. :P)

@Nabiri I respect that, trust me.

Thank you for saying so.

I understand you have worries about retainers?
I really like having 1 retainer per character right now for space, because at the moment they're all main characters to me. I don't move items or gil from one character to another. I rarely even sell things on them. lol
So.. I use them for space. If retainers were only used for selling then I wouldn't be opposed to only being allowed a smaller amount. But right now they're essential storage for me. If..rather.. when SE adds more storage space, no problem.

But... I can see that the wards.. (well in one city) are full and that's frustrating enough already for many people.
If SE continues to allow many retainers per character perhaps they can set a limit for how many are allowed to be selling at a time on one account. (But then again, we have NO idea how they plan to change retainers in the future. Can't assume they'll always be as they are now.)

[Zumi]

Wasn't this same exact topic posted like a couple hours ago?

Looks like it got deleted cause it turned into a post ponies thread.

[viion]

Perhaps they're going to completely change the class/job system and make it more like Final Fantasy XI?

Lol.. I'm just going to point out that having an 'alt' is completely useless in a game like this.

'Alts' are where people make another character to play a different class, or do something different than their main character (not going to use the word 'experience' because I don't want to sound pretentious). In this case, the other reason you would make another character would be to look at a different race/gender/etc..

In Final Fantasy XIV one character can do anything except join multiple Grand Companies.. but then again why would you want to? I'm glad that even though your character can do anything, there are some things that create uniqueness.

I am sorry but you are completely wrong, everyone is so fixated on this "Your character can do everything, why would you want more?", not everyone wants to do everything on 1 character, be the same character all the time, not all characters can experience everything, nothing about it is "uniqueness" because you dont have your own story, you follow 1 of 3 paths, there are those who like to play all.

Now can my character hop to different server in an instance? Nope, I have a character on Ragnarok I sometimes play, prior to merge I have one on Istory that I got 50 and played time to time, got to experience different things with different people.

So why dont ya'll just get your heads out of your ass and realise, hey if you dont want more than one, then dont create more than one! WOW IS IT THAT SIMPLE DERP?!

Dont ruin it for other people.

Not to mention, im sure some of you want this game to succeed right? You love this game, surely you want more players and so that SE gets more money and that game lives on, why would you say no to something that has potentially turned away plenty of people with its confusing payment system.

It mind boggles me, I think deep down some people just think that SE isnt a business and doesnt want to make money and that the game will survive with just a few people, so they tell everyone to GTFO.

[Asiaine]

Nononono,

This isn't about NOT having multiples... Nothing wrong with having as much as you want. And if it brings you happyness, yaay!

This is about: Is there another reason behind why this is being enabled?

Is SE just being nice and catering to those who would enjoy the opportunity to have multiple different characters, or..... is there some other driving force that may necessitate it???