Duplicate af

[Camate]

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay!

The development team is aware of the large issue where inventory space is being taken up by artifact equipment and other equipment that you are unable to discard, and they are looking into countermeasures that will either allow you to simply discard them or create an NPC to take care of it for patch 2.1.

[Req]

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

[KaneBunce]

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

If you re-read Camate's post it makes it clear the patch is not yet ready, meaning they cannot upload it in the current maintenances.

[Req]

If you re-read Camate's post it makes it clear the patch is not yet ready, meaning they cannot upload it in the current maintenances.

And there is the issue. It shouldn't take what is now nearly 3 months after launch to change items so that they can be discarded. The whole "we are looking into ways of implementing this" is a huge blanket statement for them basically saying they are behind on every issue. God knows if this was a bug that allowed people to have some sort of unintended advantage they would take the servers down immediately and fix it, but if it is a bug that hinders the player and inconveniences them then it takes forever to get it fixed and the best we can hope for is them fixing it in 2.1.

[Zfz]

It basically means that they:

1. Acknowledge a lot of people want to keep them
2. Acknowledge a lot of people want to throw them away
3. Know that there will be a lot of people who discard gear by mistake / regret it and want it back
4. Probably should find a solution that's more than just a simple discard
5. *task goes into the next meeting agenda*

And we all know how there's always that same set of items getting pushed off each week's agenda again and again because something with higher priority keeps popping up.

TL;DR: dunno what to do, do it later.

[Oriana]

Why is it that it is so hard for the dev team to implement bug fixes when they are taking the servers down for maintenance 3-4 times a week? It is kind of ridiculous that people have got permanent items in their inventory that they can not get rid of for another month. This seems like something that should have been fixed within the first week of the game. I still have a full set of bathing suits on one of my characters that I can't even wear because I accidentally bought them for the wrong gender, so there are essentially items in my inventory that I can't even do anything with.

i agree with you it looks like they lacking this game is dying because they are not doing good job in fixing things

[TirionCrey]

While I agree that patches usually take several months to be imlpemented, it's a complete different thing with "hot-fixes". They were able to hotfix Titan exploits, Twintania Twisters etc. But things that literally take one day of coding and implementation are pushed back to big content patches, which causes inconveniences for players. Being able to Discard AF armor is a matter of a one day hotfix, including coding, debugging and implementation. It's these little things that make people wonder if SE is actually able to pull stuff like this off when it actually matters. Being able to discard AF armor is no big deal...but it makes it "hard to believe" that when something is actually urgent and should be fixed in a matter of one day, that SE can actually do it. Other MMORPGs have stuff like class balance updates and things in hotfixes. Something like that will never happen in FFXIV. If a class is "broken", they will make you wait til the next big patch, or at least that's how it seems considering their update politics for the game.

PS: Nonetheless I'm glad this is gonna be fixed in 2.1...I wanna get rid of my duplicate AF...

[Anonymoose]

Would a separate NPC just for this really be necessary? The issue started with the Armoire, can't it end there? When trying to store a duplicate item that cannot be otherwise discarded, have one of those "click the confirm box and then click ok so we know you really mean it" windows pop up asking if we'd like to overwrite one with the other. Two sets of AF go into the Armoire - one remains to be taken out later. Just throwing ideas out there; this was my first impression of a quick fix.

[TirionCrey]

Would a separate NPC just for this really be necessary? The issue started with the Armoire, can't it end there? When trying to store a duplicate item that cannot be otherwise discarded, have one of those "click the confirm box and then click ok so we know you really mean it" windows pop up asking if we'd like to overwrite one with the other. Two sets of AF go into the Armoire - one remains to be taken out later. Just throwing ideas out there; this was my first impression of a quick fix.

Yeah that is what I thought of as well and seemed the easiest way to fix it to me at least. They don't need to be discardable...just make it so one overwrites the other in the Armoire and one "vanishes".

[Hollow_Tears]

It would be nice just to store every piece of gear in the Armoire then when future classes/jobs become available we already have good gear for them, who knows they might make the gear thats for one or two classes now available for those future classes/jobs by altering the text.