The Armoire: Are there any plans to make it more... useful?

Dear Squeenix
Inventory management is never and will never be fun.
No matter how much space is given, it will never, never be enough.
Especially with continuously increasing item counts.
Fix it. There shouldn't be a limit to storage.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

Greetings,

In patch 2.1, we will be expanding the number of items that you can place within the armoire:

• Seasonal items from events that took place after the launch of A Realm Reborn
• Items from the "Lightning Strikes" event
• Collector's Edition bonus items
• Pre-order bonus items
• Main tools obtained from the level 50 Disciples of the Hand class quests

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great news!

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Originally Posted by EvokerKeii

Dear Squeenix
Inventory management is never and will never be fun.
No matter how much space is given, it will never, never be enough.
Especially with continuously increasing item counts.
Fix it. There shouldn't be a limit to storage.

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Call a game with limitless storage

Currently we have 450 items slots and 40 slots for sell that we could also use as storage (with 9999999 gil as prices)

Is there any chances for those set of gear to be storable in the futur :

- Darklight gear
- Wanderer's palace
- Amdapor Keep
- Primal weapon

Thank you

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

Greetings,

In patch 2.1, we will be expanding the number of items that you can place within the armoire:

• Seasonal items from events that took place after the launch of A Realm Reborn
• Items from the "Lightning Strikes" event
• Collector's Edition bonus items
• Pre-order bonus items
• Main tools obtained from the level 50 Disciples of the Hand class quests

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Sorry But that is not really expanding on the number of items that can go in there and making it more useful. That is making it work like it was original intended. All those items should have been tagged as being able to be stored in armoire as soon as they were released.

How about the Veteran reward items, or the Tokyo event items(bomb or cactaur earrings) ?

The "Main tools obtained from the level 50 Disciples of the Hand class quests" are the only things on your list your actually adding. So, thanks for adding that at least. But the only reason to store those items is, if you unlock the achievements ones, which have the exact same stats(even though they are harder to get) and the general agreement is they look worse.

Now making it more useful would be allowing all unique gear being able to be stored in there. But that is probably asking too much. How about all the Revanant Toll exchange items. Or at least Myth gear(since you have the cap) and the Behemoth/Odin Items.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

Greetings,

In patch 2.1, we will be expanding the number of items that you can place within the armoire:

• Seasonal items from events that took place after the launch of A Realm Reborn
• Items from the "Lightning Strikes" event
• Collector's Edition bonus items
• Pre-order bonus items
• Main tools obtained from the level 50 Disciples of the Hand class quests

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They should actually expand this to include all Green and Blue gear. I've got a crap ton of Primal weapons taking up space for precious crafting materials in my retainers. As well as some Green equipment I'm keeping for when vanity is launched.

The way the system is set up currently i doubt they'll add greens or primal weapons (even if i think unique items should go in this chest..). =/ But the news of the lightning event stuff going in there is good.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

Main tools obtained from the level 50 Disciples of the Hand class quests

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What about the main tools from the Disciples of the Land quests?

I think anything unique/untradable should get in there.
I'm saving a lot of sets hoping to put them on a mannequin :)

Firstly, thank you Hvinire for taking the time to give this a formal responds. I read the synapse of the live letter, but it's good to see the community reps do care. Also a huge thank you to all of you that supported the comic sans movement; even if you did so unintentionally. Fight the power! Why? Because we can.:p

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Originally Posted by Lichna

Is there any chances for those set of gear to be storable in the futur :

- Darklight gear
- Wanderer's palace
- Amdapor Keep
- Primal weapon

Thank you

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I vaguely remember reading somewhere that SE implemented the Armoire in order to store items that can only be obtained once and never again. This includes things like seasonal items, promotional items, quest-obtained artifact armor, etc. If it's possible to obtain the item again in some fashion (be it running dungeons or purchasing more of it from a vendor), it's not eligible.

It would also be kinda nice if we could store relic weapons in there as well.

SE from the beginning of FFXI always restricted the user from having too much storage.
Matter of fact in FFXI you had to do long and horribly expensive quest just to increase your Item Bag by 5 additional slots and only were able to do this ever few levels up to 5 times. The Mog House they used you could place furniture in that held inventory slots and only after you RANKED up could you expand how much furniture you room would hold. The only thing they did right about FFXI was they allowed you to purchase additional characters for 1.00 a month each. This gave you what many call to this day a MULE.. SE this time around gives you 7 additional characters for FREE but they will not allow for you send items back and forth to your main character. My question is... WHY THE HELL NOT ?

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Originally Posted by EvokerKeii

Dear Squeenix
Inventory management is never and will never be fun.
No matter how much space is given, it will never, never be enough.
Especially with continuously increasing item counts.
Fix it. There shouldn't be a limit to storage.

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When was the last time you've ever played a game with "unlimited" storage?

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Originally Posted by aray0002

SE from the beginning of FFXI always restricted the user from having too much storage.
Matter of fact in FFXI you had to do long and horribly expensive quest just to increase your Item Bag by 5 additional slots and only were able to do this ever few levels up to 5 times.

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Uh...what? lol. "Every few levels"? No, it was fame based which you could actually do all at level 10 (didnt take a level 1 mule to jeuno) and to raise the fame, you either traded in a ton of corn or moss, which weren't "terribly expensive" and the items for it were only expensive when it was first released because people seen a profit.

Not to mention you get a free Mog Sack from the moogle which imitates your current inventory space, you had a ton of storage space if you actually decorated your mog house, you got the Porter Mog system which stores just about everything that isn't crafted (by players) a mog satchel if you bought a security token and a mog case - XI has better storage than XIV does currently...XIV basically should have imitated XI's current state (maybe - mog case as that's new). When was the last time you actually played XI?

I really think its time to stop updating the armoire well after events. You guys take the time to plan events and patch before them (most of the time) add the items ahead of time. It's almost a discouragement to do the seasonal events. Like now this next patch should also include all the snowman stuff you're planning on letting us earn in a few weeks .. but I know it wont.. It gets really old and shouldn't take so long to update it on these items.

can it be possible to store primal weapons in there in the future?

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Originally Posted by axemtitanium

When was the last time you've ever played a game with "unlimited" storage?

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I'm not sure what the argument here is.
Are you saying because no game has done it before no game can do it?
Are you saying that because it hasn't been done before, it's fun?
Am I somehow wrong because no game has done it before?



I suppose technically speaking it can't be done or done reasonably close to definition of unlimited storage, but the limit should be high enough to where it seems unlimited to someone who doesn't know what the hard cap is.

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Originally Posted by EvokerKeii

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the problem with infinite storage is...PS3 wouldn't even be able to handle that. and it would be messy and impractical at that.

think about it long run (if you manage to stay with this game for that long, everyone moves on eventually)...have fun sorting through 500+ pages of items.

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Originally Posted by saber_alter

the problem with infinite storage is...PS3 wouldn't even be able to handle that. and it would be messy and impractical at that.

think about it long run (if you manage to stay with this game for that long, everyone moves on eventually)...have fun sorting through 500+ pages of items.

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Please correct me if I am mistaken as I may be reading wrong, but you're saying to give up before even trying to find a solution? Make no attempts because PS3 has some limitations?

I'm sure there's a solution that would benefit all. Perhaps a search field akin to the auction board?

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Originally Posted by EvokerKeii

Please correct me if I am mistaken as I may be reading wrong, but you're saying to give up before even trying to find a solution? Make no attempts because PS3 has some limitations?

I'm sure there's a solution that would benefit all. Perhaps a search field akin to the auction board?

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the reason why our inventory is split into tabs is because of the ps3 hardware limitation, ps3 can't even set focus target because of it (there is quite a list of things they had to tweak so the 256mb vram could handle it). ps4 might be able to handle something like that though.

and search would help finding stuff, but over all wouldn't help too much either, it would still look impractical and cluttery to the UI. i like the idea for it, but it kinda promotes hoarding as well (not that we don't have that already).

i think it would be more beneficial to have a more advanced sorting system. so you could find what you need, and keep it organized.