Free additional item storage?

I have no issue with the extra retainers in the Mog Station but shouldn't SE add some item slots to our characters and retainers for free once in awhile? It's not the players' fault that the item database getting larger every 3 months.

at least 20 slots should be added to our characters/retainers every major updates. make it a quest or whatever.

ps3 limitations

nha server stress limitiations. Item Storage is all server side. If FFXI is any example we want them to be prudent with storage expansion. In FFXI right now a large part of your loading time zoning into places is the game reloading your friggin inventory...

Would love to see this but $E smells money with this paid retainer system... the blood is already in the water.

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Originally Posted by TheRac25

ps3 limitations

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I hope this was a failed attempt at being funny. How can this be the ps3's fault when you can literally get this service by paying extra money?

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiB06

I hope this was a failed attempt at being funny. How can this be the ps3's fault when you can literally get this service by paying extra money?

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It was a joke. "PS3 Limitations" is the popular joke on the forum for whenever SE can't or won't add something (or haven't added it already).

Whether it's a funny joke or not, that is still up for debate.

As to the OP, I agree. If anything, I feel like we should have gotten a third retainer for free just so we'd have one for each city, and THEN pay for extra ones, but that's just me. A bit of extra space on the current retainers wouldn't have hurt, especially if it was a small amount like 20 slots. SE made sure to have things take up as many slots as possible, so it isn't like they'd be losing potential sales for extra retainers.

But what can you do, SE knows they can squeeze money out of people, so they go straight for it.

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Originally Posted by Diadumenos

Would love to see this but $E smells money with this paid retainer system... the blood is already in the water.

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And how is that different then People paying for extra characters in XI just for storage. Either way, your paying for extra resources not in the original
scope of their resource management plan.

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiB06

I hope this was a failed attempt at being funny. How can this be the ps3's fault when you can literally get this service by paying extra money?

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Yeah it's a long running joke since SE used "PS2 limitations" as an excuse back in the day when they wanted to say "no". Also, no MMO gives "free additional space" these days, usually you need to buy it or do some asinine questline for it. Though XI gave us 2 free inventory/storage systems recently:

Mog Case
Porter Mog.

Something that should have existed in FFXIV ARR from the get go, but as we know, XIV community hates anything and everything FFXI.

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Originally Posted by Haibel

And how is that different then People paying for extra characters in XI just for storage. Either way, your paying for extra resources not in the original scope of their resource management plan.

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Who said it was different? Must have missed that deleted post... XD
It's ok, we know what you meant. *pats Haibel on the head*

the last retainer inventory increase was during alpha/beta.
From 100 slots (1.23) to 175 slots (character inventory slots got reduced from 150 slots to 100 slots) .
So maybe with 3.0 retainer inventory get increased to 200 and character inventory get reduced to 80 (to balance the resources out)

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Originally Posted by Evangela

at least 20 slots should be added to our characters/retainers every major updates. make it a quest or whatever.

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SE do this already, with the armoire. Not exactly 20 slots, but enough to put in the last new seasonal items in it.

Inventory space is fine people need to not be hoarders. If people want extra space (I think what we have now is plenty) then SE could Charge $9.99/Month for unlimited space...... No seriously though they could do like FFXI and add some quest like Gobbie Bag/or pay an NPC a one time fee to upgrade.

Somehow SE manages to be so special that they can't figure out how to implement additional storage space without it costing them an arm and a leg - even though pretty much every MMO out there can do this.

Or they saw they have a fanatically loyal fanbase and knew they could get them to pay unnecessary additional money even though technically it would barely cost SE anything.

I doubt we'll ever see additional inventory expansion in XIV without having to pay additional money for it - not with this precedent now set. It's ridiculous in a sub-based MMO, but too many people just roll over and let it happen.

Best part is, SE has a precedence set with FFXI:

Gobbie Bag Quests (no rl money needed)
Mog Satchel (Came with buying a security token)
Mog Sack (Speak to a moogle..free space..and it scaled with your current inventory, so more spaces you get with gobbie bag, more sack and satchel space you get.)
Mog Case (Logged in after update..free 80+ inventory increase.)
Porter Mog (Trade almost every rare/ex etc gear to the moogle, so essentially more space.)
Mog House ( Storage system granted additional 80ish spaces when you decorated it at the cost of some of your mog house slots.)

However people want SE to ignore what they did in FFXI.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Best part is, SE has a precedence set with FFXI:

Gobbie Bag Quests (no rl money needed)
Mog Satchel (Came with buying a security token)
Mog Sack (Speak to a moogle..free space..and it scaled with your current inventory, so more spaces you get with gobbie bag, more sack and satchel space you get.)
Mog Case (Logged in after update..free 80+ inventory increase.)
Porter Mog (Trade almost every rare/ex etc gear to the moogle, so essentially more space.)
Mog House ( Storage system granted additional 80ish spaces when you decorated it at the cost of some of your mog house slots.)

However people want SE to ignore what they did in FFXI.

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Can a single character on XI store more than over 800 items (inclusive gears and weapons)?