Transferring items between alt characters

[Niwashi]

[OT]

Although if you make multiple characters that are supposed to be related and know each other, it would be nice to even maintain that illusion by sending messages and gifts between the two.

On the subject of maintaining the illusion that alts know each other and work together, each of my alts have retainers named after and whose appearance matches my other alts. So even if I never get a chance to actually adventure together with multiple alts at once, I get to RP that they're meeting up with each other whenever I summon my retainers.

[kyuven]

Like it or not this is one of those rare games that wasn't designed with multiple characters in mind, which is why it's an extra service to have more than one.
RP purposes and extra inventory space I can understand perfectly well, but if you do that you gotta put up with the problems that creates.
Also something a lot of people seem to ignore is the game is HEAVILY skewed in other ways towards focusing on a single character over having multiple alts:
1) If you wanna replay the story, all the cutscenes are available for review. The only ones that you can't see are ones you didn't experience.
2) You get an EXP bonus based on the level difference between two classes. This, combined with dungeons, leves, and FATEs means your next class to 50 will actually be FASTER than the first.
3) More often than not in dungeons and quests and levequest bonuses, you'll end up with gear you can't use.
4) There are numerous bottlenecks that make leveling a second/third character far more tedious

[Ashkendor]

Dis necropost... welcome to the past, I suppose. >.>

[OdinEon]

My daughter has a character under my account and I would like to be able to pass items from my character to hers, this is just one reason to have mult char on same account. For those "why have more than one character people."
I grew up poor, I guarantee that had mybro and I had this game we would have only been able to talk our mom into one account.

[OdinEon]

She is 5 by the way, and her favorite thing to do is hunt ladybugs and squirells outside gridania. :-)
Happy dad

[Roshidon1]

People are also forgetting that you're getting a whole new set of coil gear or tomes for every character you have. This makes doing bcob easier if you can switch classes to more easily fit a raid group's needs.

[SamAkemi]

My first character was healing in a raid team. On that character I levelled all jobs to level cap, one of them being PLD. I enjoyed tanking so much that I decided I wanted to main tank in raids, but didnt want to leave the team, those being friends of mine. So I made a second character and level capped it, decked it out, formed another raid team, and main tanked all content in that raid team while healing in the first raid team on my first character.

Regardless of whether characters were created with the advantages of being able to swap class instantly and having cross class abilities, there will be valid reasons why people want an alt. Subscribers should not be disadvantaged in any way by having alts. We pay to play, we have the ability to create new characters, mailing items to our own characters should be available. Square Enix needs to fix it regardless of personal opinions as to why we shouldnt need them. They are just opinions and the need for mailing to alts is a fact.

[Vandril]

Why did you bump a thread which hadn't had any new posts in 7 months?

Eh, whatever. I'll bite.

They are just opinions and the need for mailing to alts is a fact.

It's also a fact that allowing mailing between alts would allow the usage of bank alts for storage space. Storage space is restricted for a reason - whatever it may be - so they will never add a system that allows you to break the limit (for free).

[Niwashi]

they will never add a system that allows you to break the limit

SE already limits the number of characters we can have on a server. They even have two different subscription levels according to which character limit you want (and are willing to pay for). That's as much limitation as any other MMO needs. Why would SE need more restrictions there than anyone else? (It's not even an actual restriction, because you still have the same amount of storage space spread across the same number of characters, the only difference is how hard or easy it is to transfer between them. Even if you never transferred anything, your other characters can fill their storage space with their own items.)

[Dante_V]

Considering the basic account service is specifically set up to allow same servers alts, the fact that they don't allow this is kind of silly. Beyond that the whole you don't "need" an alt argument carries little weight. Need is subjective and opinion. You don't "need" to play games but you do. And square is charging money for same server alts so said storage is hardly free at all.