2.2 Retainers via Microtransactions

[Nekodar]

In an interview with Dengenki Online, Yoshi P explain that they are going to be introducing more retainers as a 'paid' service.

In FFXI you had to pay an extra monthly fee for additional characters.
Not much different here.

And from what we know of the ventures so far is that it costs some sort of credit each time you send them out. As this is a limited resource, you can't just get additional retainers and send them all out to farm.

[Valendred]

In FFXI you had to pay an extra monthly fee for additional characters.
And from what we know of the ventures so far is that it costs some sort of credit each time you send them out. As this is a limited resource, you can't just get additional retainers and send them all out to farm.

Characters and benefits for a character are entirely different as a concept.

Characters are separated and unaffected by one another in general. The retainers are entirely related to each individual character.

What if, for example, you receive 4 of these credits per day, and each retainer uses them one at a time, and when the retainer returns, you receive your rewards.

Assuming the retainer cannot sell things on the market boards during a venture, this leads to several issues.

The players with the ideal amount of retainers, that being amount of credits+1, will receive their materials faster, be able to sell them more easily, and be able to get a higher price most likely.

[SendohJin]

What if, for example, you receive 4 of these credits per day, and each retainer uses them one at a time, and when the retainer returns, you receive your rewards.

Assuming the retainer cannot sell things on the market boards during a venture, this leads to several issues.

The players with the ideal amount of retainers, that being amount of credits+1, will receive their materials faster, be able to sell them more easily, and be able to get a higher price most likely.

those are all terrible design choices that may or may not happen and you can deal with them if they come up.

that's not an inherent problem with charging for extra retainers.

[Valendred]

those are all terrible design choices that may or may not happen and you can deal with them if they come up.

that's not an inherent problem with charging for extra retainers.

The biggest issue here is that charging for the retainers in the first place is the terrible design choice.

[Fawkes]

It's basically just returning to the FFXI model of alternate characters as paid storage. This is probably the reason they don't let us send things to our other characters.

[rhemi1]

It's basically just returning to the FFXI model of alternate characters as paid storage. This is probably the reason they don't let us send things to our other characters.

Assuming this is an extra charge per month like XI characters were. We really know nothing about this at the moment.

[Fumijj_Gah]

In FFXI you had to pay an extra monthly fee for additional characters.
Not much different here.

FFXI was a masterpiece, money welcome, ARR is not. They wanted to move game's template and choose the ordinary way all post-WoW MMORPG are following, so microtransactions on retainers have no sense.