I'd like to buy more retainers, or a separate place for storing gears, please

I'd like to collect every unique untradable gear in the game. My 8 retainers are slowly becoming insufficient, and therefore I'd like more..

Would this be something that has a chance of happening in the future?

inb4 hate comments what a hoarder, thanks for your support

..and here we see, why SE never will expand our storage for free.
Tell me, how much money you want to spend on this? How far you'd go?

You would like to buy more retainers.

I would like to get just one more for free.

I just want 1 retainer more for free... at least for those who bought Heavensward. Or ome kind of veteran reward or something.

They should give everyone who bought Heavensward one free retainer.

I prefer a bigger armory chest

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Originally Posted by IzVale

..and here we see, why SE never will expand our storage for free.
Tell me, how much money you want to spend on this? How far you'd go?

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Way to take shots at a person just asking for more retainers for sale.

I want more storage as much as the next person but you may want to dial it back.

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Originally Posted by Andrea

Way to take shots at a person just asking for more retainers for sale.

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That'd be exactly why, though. It wasn't merely a request for more storage. It was a specific request to pay even more to get that storage. When they're already being charged $12 per month for the extra retainers they already have (since they're at max). If people start clamouring for a chance to buy more storage space, how soon do you think SE would expand our storage space without charging for it? ^^;

8 retainers is enough they just need to add a better glamour system where you dont need to hold onto equips

also to glamour gear set and not just gear

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Originally Posted by Noxifer

how soon do you think SE would expand our storage space without charging for it? ^^;

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My honest answer to that? I think we will be lucky if we even get some next expansion. Even without adding new retainers for money.

And yes while in the long run they may be hurting the chance to get free retainers, but that isn't a reason to 1. take shots at them and 2. blame them for something that is SEs fault..

I think everyone who purchased HW should get an extra retainer for free.
Asking to have basic utilities like storage put into the cash-shop makes no sense. We pay a sub, we shouldn't have to pay extra for things like this.
Please don't give the company the message that they don't have to provide better storage in-game because people are only too happy to dip into their wallets and pay.

Now I'm the one to usually take the piss out on people for hoarding as I am a hoarder, but if you've honestly got 8 retainers full of gear you might just want to dial it back. Another retainer won't be enough for long, and they can't just keep expanding to meet extreme demands. The only solution to your problem seems like a glamour log.

Dude I can barely afford adding 2 extra retainers to my sub, please give me all that extra money you have :(

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Dude I can barely afford adding 2 extra retainers to my sub, please give me all that extra money you have :(

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It is only $12 per month xtra for 6 more retainers, cut out a lunch or two out per week. Skip a night out one week. etc, etc. It is easy to come up with that if you really want it.

I have 8 retainers myself.

http://i.imgur.com/AbeOik6.jpg

I think I'll probably go up to 16.

Hmm, I think it'll be one of my main form of entertainment, I've met amazing people, had amazing experience with the game itself. So why not go all out I suppose?

Of course I'll take a free one over a paid one any day. But since I'm not within the norm of keeping only relevant stuff, I really would appreciate if I can hold on to at least the Unique Untradeable gear.
Or a glamour log which I and many others have suggested. Unfortunately people like me exist and as long as we exist they'd probably rather make us pay for it than make a glamour log..

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Originally Posted by Richiealvian

I Unfortunately people like me exist and as long as we exist they'd probably rather make us pay for it than make a glamour log..

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At least you are honest...

I refuse to pay extra for storage. I pay a monthly sub and refuse to encourage se to charge us for things that quite frankly should be included in my sub.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

It is only $12 per month xtra for 6 more retainers, cut out a lunch or two out per week. Skip a night out one week. etc, etc. It is easy to come up with that if you really want it.

I have 8 retainers myself.

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"Only", maybe "only" for you but for some people $12 extra a month is a lot...

Sounds like a expensive request.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

It is only $12 per month xtra for 6 more retainers, cut out a lunch or two out per week. Skip a night out one week. etc, etc. It is easy to come up with that if you really want it.

I have 8 retainers myself.

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You realize that almost as much as your sub itself even more then then sub if person is on legacy pricing. SE making bank on people with full extra 6 retainers.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

It is only $12 per month xtra for 6 more retainers, cut out a lunch or two out per week. Skip a night out one week. etc, etc. It is easy to come up with that if you really want it.

I have 8 retainers myself.

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So you're suggesting people consider not eating in order to pay for stuff in a video game? That's pretty irresponsible.

I mean, I do agree that it's not a lot of money, and I rather sheepishly pay for four extra retainers to support my omnicrafting and glamour hoarding habits, but I'm not going to defend SE for charging us for a service that should either be included in the cost of the game/subscription fee, or made wholly unnecessary by a little work being put into better coding. There's obviously something very wrong with the way the game handles data storage, considering the devs have been complaining that they don't have enough server space for this or that feature since almost the game's launch, and while I want new content as much as the next player, I doubt I'm the only one who thinks they need to dedicate a patch cycle or two to getting that problem under control while the game is still relatively young and successful, even if it means we get less content overall for a little while.

Other games have systems that let you log glamour items without having to save them. Their own prior MMO apparently has a layaway system where you can trade a full set of gear in for a single token - not a perfect system, but 1 inventory space versus five or ten would be a pretty major improvement.

Pay for a glamour ok, I can accept it, it is a skin, nothing more. But pain for extra services like this shouln't be exist. We pay every month, we shouldn't pay more to have more storage. That's a bit abusive. It is true that no one obligues you to pay for extra retainer, but also, the storage in game is ridiculous minimal. That is good for a free to play game, but not for a sub game. Even this MMO, who price is lower that other MMO, still is too unfair had to pay when you already pay a subscription.

Oh hell no, not saying it's cheap, but then again, as always it's supply and demand, as long as there's people wanting it and it's profitable there'll be people selling it.
Please, glamour log.. or item log.. I want you..

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Originally Posted by Lukha

So you're suggesting people consider not eating in order to pay for stuff in a video game? That's pretty irresponsible.

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No I am saying don't eat out, save money by taking a lunch from home to work/school with you. It is cheaper. Don't go out to a restaurant for dinner, eat at home, again it is cheaper.

Just went out for a nice dinner with my parents for my fathers birthday tonight and with a coupon for a free meal for him it cost us $70. Eating out is way more expensive then buying food from a grocery store and making your own lunch/dinner.

There are ways to cut down your expenses to afford it.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

No I am saying don't eat out, save money by taking a lunch from home to work/school with you. It is cheaper. Don't go out to a restaurant for dinner, eat at home, again it is cheaper.

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Now whether you do that or not it's none of our business, but it is objectively quite a silly idea that we have to "save" extra real money to add more space in a game, a pay to play game no less!

Seriously, in almost all p2p games I've played and even f2p ones, the storage space was always bought with in-game money with SOME exceptions that was only there as an additional thing: in GW2 for example the space is well done, to the point that i never felt to add additional slots for my bags. Even in f2p games they just charge you once per character - sometimes per account - and that's it.

Heck, even in SWTOR the storage space was better done and the glamour is far superior too. And I despise SWTOR as a f2p game!

I would've purchased a retainer or two if it was a one time purchase, but an additional fee just for the space? Sorry, I rather spend that extra 12 bucks on something more important.

Suffice to say, I don't live with FFXIV alone.

I can't remember the last time I ate at a restaurant. I think it's been ten years or so. Last bought some nuggets at a McDonald's over a year ago.

Please, do tell me why I should pay more than twice the ADVERTISED monthly price for playing the game, why I need to cut down on food expenses even more to get what should be the default.

The only thing this will do is further broaden the divide between the haves and the have-nots, something that really, really, REALLY shouldn't be a thing in a computer game like this.

I'm not going to get into the pay-to-win argument, because no one ever agrees on the definition of winning in an MMO, but can we at least agree that having 8 retainers gives you a massive advantage over those who only have two? With 8 retainers you get to have two fishers, two botanists, two miners, AND two battle-classes, while the people who don't pay extra get to choose which two are most important to them.

You don't need to, normally you'll suffice with the latest gear for all your classes.

However, with the way the raids are designed, all old gear becomes obsolete very, very fast.

It's just my way of not invalidating what I've gathered in the past I guess?

Say I've collected all Allagan gears. I am loath to part with them, I can still enjoy the game if I don't have them as they're irrelevant at this point of time. They even allowed us to craft it with different colors.
Let's just say different people gain enjoyment from different things..

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

Please, do tell me why I should pay more than twice the ADVERTISED monthly price for playing the game, why I need to cut down on food I'm not going to get into the pay-to-win argument, because no one ever agrees on the definition of winning in an MMO, but can we at least agree that having 8 retainers gives you a massive advantage over those who only have two? With 8 retainers you get to have two fishers, two botanists, two miners, AND two battle-classes, while the people who don't pay extra get to choose which two are most important to them.

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Yes, it gives you advantage. You can farm more items with them, sell them, also have more space to farm more items, etc. I totally agree this feature shoulnd't exist in this game. People paying more having more things sounds liek a "pay to win" game.

I would propose a storage system for housing. Not the armory which can only hold certain items but something more like a personal item chest, something akin to a retainer. It seems unrealistic to own a house but be unable to place your belongings in it. Introducing a personal storage trunk that is accessible to players who are part of the housing but connects to an personal storage unit would go a long way towards increasing the overall usefulness of houses in general, especially with the crafting tables that can only be used within a household.

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Originally Posted by Drkdays

I would propose a storage system for housing. Not the armory which can only hold certain items but something more like a personal item chest, something akin to a retainer. It seems unrealistic to own a house but be unable to place your belongings in it. Introducing a personal storage trunk that is accessible to players who are part of the housing but connects to an personal storage unit would go a long way towards increasing the overall usefulness of houses in general, especially with the crafting tables that can only be used within a household.

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Oh yeah. I agree too with a general purpose chest on our house with, I don't know, like 500 slots or something.

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Originally Posted by Drkdays

I would propose a storage system for housing. Not the armory which can only hold certain items but something more like a personal item chest, something akin to a retainer. It seems unrealistic to own a house but be unable to place your belongings in it. Introducing a personal storage trunk that is accessible to players who are part of the housing but connects to an personal storage unit would go a long way towards increasing the overall usefulness of houses in general, especially with the crafting tables that can only be used within a household.

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Yeah and leave everyone who is unable to get a house out in the cold.

They need to fix the housing situation first so that everyone who has the gil that wants a house can get one.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

Yeah and leave everyone who is unable to get a house out in the cold.

They need to fix the housing situation first so that everyone who has the gil that wants a house can get one.

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It can be fixed having one in the inn room, like armory chest and the other stuff.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

Yeah and leave everyone who is unable to get a house out in the cold.

They need to fix the housing situation first so that everyone who has the gil that wants a house can get one.

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Well supposedly in 3.3 we're getting more wards, more plots per wards, and apartment housing (with indoor gardening) so... maybe it /is/ time to look into a storage chest feature.

Why give for free when people are willing to pay money?

I've tried this, but got frustrated with the glamour system and having to buy extra retainers so I recently sold or threw out most of what I had been saving to go back down to 2 or 4 retainers. Compared to most games on the market, this one has a pretty clunky system and I'm not sure why that is. I wouldn't expect it to change though before 4.0. I imagine at that point the PS3 will be retired and the game may see some enhancements for item management and glamour.

I've been considering getting 2 retainers, moving all the gear that I don't use (But hold onto because of sentimental / effort put into getting them) into the retainers, then turning off the retainers (So basically SE gets 4$ but that's all they get) to create an artifical storage.

Thread title misleading. You don't buy retainers - you rent them.

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Originally Posted by Bixillarla

Yeah and leave everyone who is unable to get a house out in the cold.

They need to fix the housing situation first so that everyone who has the gil that wants a house can get one.

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Three city-states. 8 districts apiece. 60 houses per district.

1440 houses total, per server.

I agree, we need to have more plots available.