Ok, so I held off saying this for a while but enough is enough and I encourage everyone to complain and put their foot down on this type of thing.

First they sold fantasia in the Mog Store which was borderline ok. Other games that charge a subscription have you pay for realm transfers and re-doing your character. Personally, though I felt this should be something you could buy in game instead.

Then SE started selling stuff in the Mog Station from old seasonal events you used to be able to buy with gill when they came around again. Here they removed the option of being able to buy things with in game currency to get items. This is where it started to go too far and really going in the wrong direction. Adding additional retainers for a cost was another bad move and a big one. People who are paying subs for the game SHOULDN'T have to pay extra real money for inventory space or to get any items in the game cosmetic or otherwise.

And now instead of solving the inventory/glamor problem they are adding an option to buy more retainers. A service that should be part of the game already covered by the subscription fee. I'm buying an expansion and should get more inventory space as part of that purchase not "hey thanks for buying our game you have now unlocked the ability to spend more money and buy storage."

I love this game but this is getting ridiculous and SE too greedy. Be happy with being one of the only games besides WoW that can retain subscriptions and don't bite the hand that feeds you by playing these stupid games.

I for one don't want this game's cash shop to grow any bigger and would actually like to see a reduction. This isn't a free to play game it is subscription. It also isn't WoW and I hope it never degrades to the point where WoW is right now with its cash shop. Paying for Fantasia and the upgrades to the eternal bonding ceremony makes sense. Paying for more character slots is grudgingly ok and has precedence with FFXI. Charging for inventory space and to buy in game items that should be rewards for playing or basic features is NOT ok.

I really hope the producers listen to their player base on this one. The whole thing just gives me a bad taste in my mouth. Also, I've never heard any other game talk about having so much problems with data storage before. I don't understand why this is such a big problem.