My MMO on the side

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Oh My!! I have an MMO on the side now. Which just gave me 15 days of free game time for reaching level 30 on my 1st character. Wow should do something like that for new players. I also like the mentor system it has.

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Gonna ask: Which game was it? :rainbow:

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I miss City of Heroes/Villains. :frowning:

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Darling, its FF14. Which has tempted me for years

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Its fun isnt it? Love it! HATE trying to buy game time though!

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I play it and wow subbed to both. I love both games. Hard to make progress in two nmorpgs when your life is hectic but I can’t abandon either one, just too fun

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I still play Rift and Old Republic. I love Rift’s mentoring system. And their Instant Adventures. Old Republic is still my Star Wars happy. I love all the old content.

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SWTOR is my other MMO.

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Something I found out recently is if you have two characters on the same realm, because you want a different race/appearance combination, you can’t mail items to each other.

I suppose the work around is have both in the same free company, which mine aren’t, and use their bank to exchange, but really, why have such a restriction in the first place? It’s the first time I’ve gotten angry playing FFXIV.

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My side mmo is project 99. Clasic EQ server.

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We’re not really intended to have alts and no mail between alts is precisely to make it inconvenient to use alt retainers to store extra stuff. You can always use a fantasia to change your appearance though.

I have an alt in FFXIV, but I kinda left her behind after Stormblood launched cause she just doesn’t have all the jobs leveled and cool stuff I have on my main. FFXIV really does make having an alt superfluous beyond trying to use them for extra storage and extra retainer ventures.

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It’s useful for crafting as well. When recipes are released, the good ones are generally specialist-locked. Only reason I have alts. :slight_smile:

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Just to clear something up: It’s not for being a new character, it is for leveling on a preferred server. If you would have created a character on a more populated one you wouldn’t have gotten the Road to 60 buff, or the free time.

Mind you, Blizzard could still do it, just pointing out it is not a new player thing.

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Well, excuse a WoW player with 30 alts for not realising that from the start. Believe it or not making things inconvenient is still annoying. As far as I know, a fantasia requires a trip to the character creation screen and completely recreating another character appearance, which takes way longer than logging out and in and like a WoW appearance change, it costs real money from the mog station. $10 bucks a time!

They can stick that. I want an Alt!

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Yea but you can change specializations quite easily on your main, And trying to have alts to cover all crafting specializations at once is a hell of an investment in time and resources to gear/meld to get them as good as your main.

If you’re willing to go through all that, then making an FC to put them all in to use the FC bank to swap items shouldn’t be much of an ask. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I also play swtor when new stuff comes out.

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What xpac does it go to? If any.

Edit: Ahh ok. Velious. Too bad it’s a pvp server or I would give it a try.

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SWTOR is my other love, as well. It’s fun to see so many people enjoying that, too. For the Empire.

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You can, but it is limited to 3 switches a week. It can be done to be sure, but I made my alts in Heavensward when red scrips were capped per week so switches were much less feasible. Getting them from 60-70 for Stormblood though wasn’t that bad so why not. :slight_smile: Definitely something that is not necessary per se, but can be helpful.

Also, my alts are in the same FC, I wasn’t trying to claim we needed to be able to mail, just pointing out that alts can be useful. :slight_smile:

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It has both a pve and pvp servers