Stacks to 999 timeframe?

Anyone have any idea of when stacks are supposed to go from 99 to 999? Yoshi mentioned it in his interview. It would make life a lot better.

Never heard of that... But would solve many issues with inventory...

Happen to know which interview that was mentioned in? Curious if there's any hints to be gleamed from it regarding possible timeframes.

That said, if they don't give a specific timing for something then it's one of those "up in the air until they finish it/get it working" type things. Might be coming with 4.1 or a sub-patch, might be they want to make the change sometime in the 4.x series, might be they don't know when they'll have it ready and so just aren't locking down a time for it.

I do hope it gets added, it would definitely be a nice change.

I will go find it for you

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

I will go find it for you

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Much appreciated - I'm looking through the interviews I know about to see if it was in one of those and I missed it, but I know they do interviews with various places that I often miss.

It is here: (I answered my own question, it looks like 4.1 it is supposed to go live. So the question is, when is 4.1?)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Thread/page5

That seems more like an odd joke than a confirmation that they'll be changing stack sizes.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

That seems more like an odd joke than a confirmation that they'll be changing stack sizes.

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Yes, it seemed like it till the part that says:
(Yoshida)
Matsuno’s 4.1 text is currently being implemented! Please look forward to it!

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

It is here: (I answered my own question, it looks like 4.1 it is supposed to go live. So the question is, when is 4.1?)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-Thread/page5

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4.06 is in august, if they are not doing another filler/balance/hotfix patch in between, it should be 3 month from then.

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Originally Posted by LunaFaye

4.06 is in august, if they are not doing another filler/balance/hotfix patch in between, it should be 3 month from then.

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3 months from 4.0, not the last patch of 4.0x. it should be in september/october.

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

Yes, it seemed like it till the part that says:
(Yoshida)
Matsuno’s 4.1 text is currently being implemented! Please look forward to it!

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Question is, do Yoshida mean Matsuno's tweeter text or the stacks?

I've a feeling the servers would implode if that happened.

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Originally Posted by Waliel

I've a feeling the servers would implode if that happened.

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I don't think the servers would, it'd be less item stacks for the servers to keep track of.

What would really implode is the market board as idiots keep selling stacks of 999 items instead of the usual 99 now.

I hope they do with armour, weapon and accessory aswell (when the item is in the inventory) . Just separate them based on NQ and HQ.

I foresee: I want 2 of item. MB sells at item with a stack 999. XD

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

3 months from 4.0, not the last patch of 4.0x. it should be in september/october.

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Thanks! So September sometime, hopefully.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I don't think the servers would, it'd be less item stacks for the servers to keep track of.

What would really implode is the market board as idiots keep selling stacks of 999 items instead of the usual 99 now.

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Oh lord I hope not. I think we should be able to have 999 on a person/retainer. but only sell in stacks of 99.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I don't think the servers would, it'd be less item stacks for the servers to keep track of.

What would really implode is the market board as idiots keep selling stacks of 999 items instead of the usual 99 now.

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Originally Posted by TitaniaZero

I foresee: I want 2 of item. MB sells at item with a stack 999. XD

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Which is why we need to have some sort of pop-up that lets you choose the number of items you want from the stack. Would make things a lot easier on people trying to sell tons of stuff(having 5 vending slots for one item because only certain sized stacks sell is ridiculous).

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Originally Posted by Frost_Trunks

Oh lord I hope not. I think we should be able to have 999 on a person/retainer. but only sell in stacks of 99.

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Or the easiest (and most intelligent) decision would be to just abandon the archaic mechanic of "Buy everything player X has for sale". I realize Yoshi had this dream of players being thoughtful about quantity vs price when putting things up for sale, but the playerbase is too lazy for that. If we could choose how much of something we wanted to buy, then we can list all 999 of an item for sale, and guess what, someone can only buy 1 or 10 of them if they want. All the current purchasing restriction does is hurt newer, poorer players who don't have the disposable gil to just buy a full stack of an item and resell the other 98 they didn't need.

Discretionary purchase quantities is something they've supposedly been working on since 2.0, but like a lot of other needed features it never materialized.

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Originally Posted by TitaniaZero

I foresee: I want 2 of item. MB sells at item with a stack 999. XD

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It will be fine.

With the ability to sell more at once will make things cheaper. If you wish to buy fewer at once, it will cost more. Welcome to the real world.

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Originally Posted by xNewbx

It will be fine.

With the ability to sell more at once will make things cheaper. If you wish to buy fewer at once, it will cost more. Welcome to the real world.

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Unfortunately, I am not sure most of the player base even cares about "real world" economics. Most of them just look at the lowest going price and undercut it by 1-5 gil, regardless of the stack size. While I do think it would be nice to be able to purchase the amount I want (eg. stack of 99 is on the market, I only need 10-routinely annoying, but I just go gather it myself usually), it will no doubt slow selling of things.

And yet we still do not have stackable maps... :(

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I don't think the servers would, it'd be less item stacks for the servers to keep track of.

What would really implode is the market board as idiots keep selling stacks of 999 items instead of the usual 99 now.

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Obviously they wouldn't, but it's always servers this, servers that when Squenix shoots an idea down.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

I don't think the servers would, it'd be less item stacks for the servers to keep track of.

What would really implode is the market board as idiots keep selling stacks of 999 items instead of the usual 99 now.

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I dont know... currently we are at a state that even a new face option in customization would supposedly send our servers to their fiery death...

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Originally Posted by MrSmiley

I dont know... currently we are at a state that even a new face option in customization would supposedly send our servers to their fiery death...

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LOL True story. However, the last interview seemed to focus more on cost of development. Many times they referenced "We will have to see what it would cost to implement this" So it went from, it will crash the server to it's going to cost too much money to develop. Which, I thought was a little concerning.