[Suggestion] FFXIV Alt-Friendliness

[NamiRocket]

SE aren't going to give up their profit. You absolutely can't expect shared MSQ or shared mog items. At most what I see they may do is something like shared gil bank.

This is where I am with this.

While I'd love the game to be more alt friendly, Square Enix makes too much money on it not being alt friendly. Changing that now would give up too many of their sales in MSQ skips, job skips, and fantasias.

[LalaLuna]

This is where I am with this.

While I'd love the game to be more alt friendly, Square Enix makes too much money on it not being alt friendly. Changing that now would give up too many of their sales in MSQ skips, job skips, and fantasias.

If I bought two cheap outfits for two of my alts over the past 5-6 years, then that's a lot.
The game probably generates FAR more revenue from Fantasia alone, which touches on one of the reasons people would make an alt in the first place: a new look without having to use Fantasia on your main.

[Brynne]

This is where I am with this.

While I'd love the game to be more alt friendly, Square Enix makes too much money on it not being alt friendly. Changing that now would give up too many of their sales in MSQ skips, job skips, and fantasias.

Shared bank would be a start. But not just for gil. Let us pass items, too. At least tradeable ones.

[NamiRocket]

Shared bank would be a start. But not just for gil. Let us pass items, too. At least tradeable ones.

That, or let us mail directly to alts. Just something.

[XtremePrime]

I know you don't want to hear this, but the game systems are actually designed to be done on a single character, similar to Runescape in that capacity.
You wouldn't expect Jagex to transfer items/quests from one character to another in honor of alt-friendliness.
Warcraft has a lot of systems that encourage alts (different story for different factions, only one class per character, only 2 professions per character, only 1 clear of old raids per week requiring multiples for multiple tries, many more)
Square even offers the entry subscription because they know people don't use that many characters to begin with.

I'm NOT against your proposal to improve the lives of people wanting to play more characters, but I don't think this will be a priority for Squeanix for a long time :S

[TheRealDesastr]

I know you don't want to hear this, but the game systems are actually designed to be done on a single character, similar to Runescape in that capacity.
You wouldn't expect Jagex to transfer items/quests from one character to another in honor of alt-friendliness.
Warcraft has a lot of systems that encourage alts (different story for different factions, only one class per character, only 2 professions per character, only 1 clear of old raids per week requiring multiples for multiple tries, many more)
Square even offers the entry subscription because they know people don't use that many characters to begin with.

I'm NOT against your proposal to improve the lives of people wanting to play more characters, but I don't think this will be a priority for Squeanix for a long time :S

It's alright; I know we all have different playstyles and mine's in the minority. It just makes the game less fun for me, and I see no point to doing content that wouldn't fit my 'main' in that case, so I just end up playing less and lapsing my sub. I used to like XIV due to story, but even that's gone away. I'm hoping my voice would encourage others like me to speak up and talk about it.

But yeah, it'd be okay even if you were against it. I also highly doubt it's their priority, but with WoW now having better housing, XIV really doesn't have much going for it (in my opinion). I'm staying for the RP and my houses but that's lost its luster bigtime. I would do more content, again, if there was a point, I don't need everything on my miqo and in fact most things don't fit for her at all, but would for other characters. I can't be excited for doing new content because /shrug, I got the look I enjoy for her, and my alts would just be locked behind everything.

All of my ramble is to say - I know and won't ever get my hopes up, but keeping the conversation going could be useful if it's ever to be considered and they want reasons 'why' from players themselves.

As for arguments I already addressed (different post than yours), I'm not going to bother to repeat myself :P

[MayuAmakura]

This game literally offers nothing for having alts. It's pure torture again and forcing you to do msq that you already know far too well. If this game didn't allow for all jobs to be on one char, I'd understand.

Only real usage of having alts is to have multiple FC's farming gil lol, no other use really.

[Brandr]

I would love to be able to take any job at level 1 and level with it. I don't want to play 60,70,80 levels on a job I don't want to play, just to unlock the one I do want to play.

I don't even care if it has 1 button from lvl 1 to lvl 20. I chose to play it at that level, that's on me.

Me too, my friend. Me too.

[TheRealDesastr]

Bump. I know the devs really don't look into the forums like...ever. But eh, may as well poke this anyway again just in case.

[TheRealDesastr]

I'm not expecting anything, myself. I'm simply pointing out what I want to see, and floating the idea that they'd likely make more money if they finally caved to alt friendliness. It's no secret they're not doing well at all right now, and there really just doesn't feel like a point to doing content on a character that isn't my main.

But, again, I acknowledge I'm in the minority and figured sharing this perspective could get people to think or speak up if they feel the same. Because, again, XIV really has less and less to offer, and virtually every other MMORPG popular right now has more alt friendliness. Story-locking stuff is hurting the game imo, not only for those who have alts, but for new players. That's a whole other argument though irrelevant to this thread.

...Also, the above quote was countering people who use the 'all classes' argument, not the 'but SE and their money' argument. The latter of which, yeah, means it's unlikely to come but I can hope. But is irrelevant to what I said there >.>I'm just tired of being talked over by people who make the 'all classes on one character' argument like it's going to suddenly change my mind. It's not appealing to me. XIV classes for the most part don't, aside from a small few.