Quote Originally Posted by EzekielBook View Post
From WoW, add real alts. A selling point of FF is that you don't need alts to play all the classes, but from an RP standpoint, sometimes you don't want to be dancing for tips as male Lalafell, but would rather do so as a Miqo'te. And while you can create multiple characters, the game doesn't even want them to interact. You can't send items or even gil between them easily. A real alt system would let you at least pair characters up so that you can share at least some resources between them.

I haven't played enough other games to tell you what else could be brought in, but I'm sure others of you have. I look forward to hearing your suggestions.
THIIIIIIS. I don't even RP, but I like having alts. I like making characters, and I like making those that look better for certain jobs than others. And if I'm willing to let an alt go, it would be nice to move their stuff to my main so that I don't lose anything.

You used to be able to send mail stuff to your alt, but they squashed that because people were using alts as mules but... who cares? The game already allows you to make 8 characters per world, so I'm not seeing what difference that would make. Retainers are still by and large the better system for holding all my stuff, anyway. What's more convenient, going to my retainer, or logging out, log in as my alt, my alt mails my main 666 copper ores, I log out, log back in, all the while dealing with queue times... c'mon.