Talk:Albedo/@comment-76.218.192.169-20150928020842/@comment-66.8.240.46-20160101050351

'Why did the Message skill not work?'

Friend List error? Player intention? Both work and explain why this wouldn't work. Both WoW and old FFXI had similar issues with this early on.

Early WoW tied your friend list to your character... different character, different friend list.

Early FFXI was even messier as there were multiple ways to screw with the friend list. You could make multiple profiles per account, and the characters themselves were independant of the profiles. The in-game friend list tied into the profile, not the character. (So, yes... you could have multiple friend lists.) You could also set your character as 'offline', even if you were not... FFXI allowed messages to be sent to offline players, but there would be no way to track if the message was recieved or not.

Or, simplest reason... the other player dropped you off thier friend list. Both games in the early days were very 1-sided, they would NOT tell you if the other person dropped you off thier list. Messages would just go into limbo in some cases.

Same thing could be said for Guildchat / LSChat / *Msgs...