Pay for your inventory.

[Cynfael]

The second I saw this in the patch notes, I just knew I'd find at least one thread already complaining about it.

If you want to keep extra crap, you pay a pittance extra. People are quick to break out the torches and pitchforks whenever SE reveals that they might actually be a business and looking to increase profits.

I have 4 total retainers right now. Could I make do with 2? Sure. I keep a ridiculous amount of crap I don't actually need and haven't touched in months. On the other hand, do I mind paying the cost of one large iced coffee per month for the additional 2 retainers? Not really. It's a tiny amount of money for me, but if enough players utilize the service, it's a significant increase in revenue for SE. If I no longer feel like storing all this junk, I'll stop the optional service. It's not a big deal.

Edit: As for ventures and item selling slots, I don't see that as a huge deal; I don't know anyone who has gotten rich exclusively off of retainer ventures (a few mil isn't much), and feeding tokens to all those retainers would be a lot of work unless you farm dungeons all day for items.

[Welsper59]

The second I saw this in the patch notes, I just knew I'd find at least one thread already complaining about it.

If you want to keep extra crap, you pay a pittance extra. People are quick to break out the torches and pitchforks whenever SE reveals that they might actually be a business and looking to increase profits.

I have 4 total retainers right now. Could I make do with 2? Sure. I keep a ridiculous amount of crap I don't actually need and haven't touched in months. On the other hand, do I mind paying the cost of one large iced coffee per month for the additional 2 retainers? Not really. It's a tiny amount of money for me, but if enough players utilize the service, it's a significant increase in revenue for SE. If I no longer feel like storing all this junk, I'll stop the optional service. It's not a big deal.

Edit: As for ventures and item selling slots, I don't see that as a huge deal; I don't know anyone who has gotten rich exclusively off of retainer ventures (a few mil isn't much), and feeding tokens to all those retainers would be a lot of work unless you farm dungeons all day for items.

I feel the same way. I'll only get what I need and I'm fine with the price. I think the problem most folks have is that Yoshi-P continuously fed us the excuse that server problems are the reason why they don't/can't increase the armoire. Yet somehow they're perfectly fine with the server space by doubling the current max inventory capacity for the same servers lol... when the armoire increase would be significantly less of a potential strain to said servers.

[Ashgarth]

Yet somehow they're perfectly fine with the server space by doubling the current max inventory capacity for the same servers

^^This^^

The problem is not the service itself, hell I'm paying for an extra retainer right now so I do use it.

The problem is that they have given excuses that make no sense given that they can suddenly double the amount of inventory available. So basically instead to fixing a problem they seem to capitalize on it by solving it via a cashgrab.

[Cynfael]

So basically instead to fixing a problem they seem to capitalize on it by solving it via a cashgrab.

To play devil's advocate, it could be that the earnings they are projecting from this additional service are intended to pay for whatever additional resources they require to offer it.

(Disclaimer: Naturally I don't know that this is the case. Just a thought, though.)