(02-22-2015, 11:28 AM)Naunet Wrote: It's the weird-ass FFXI-indoctrinated people, I'm sure. The people who cannot fathom ever using more than one character because you can do everything on one character. That combined with their blind faith in their Chosen God SquareEnix creates some pretty ridiculous opinions.
You never saw alt-hate and strange beliefs about character data in WoW because Blizzard actually has good servers and population policies, and alts are not just expected but even encouraged by the community.
The FFXIV community is really, really weird.
The reason you never saw alt-hate with WoW is because alts were necessary. In FFXI/XIV you can play every role with one character if you want to, whereas in WoW if you have a Paladin but you feel like playing a Hunter that day, better roll an alt son, cuz there's only one class per character in this game!
Yeah, SE gives you the option to have alts in this game but from (IMO) the intended perspective of someone playing, it's pointless because hey, you can be literally every class/job in the game on one character. Why would you need more? SE doesn't seem to consider RPers when making decisions like this because we're probably not much more than a speck on their radar. That's just speculation of course, but that's the vibe I get from them.
