Quote Originally Posted by BubblyBoar View Post
And people continue to not understand how inventory space works in lieu of vilifying the dev team even after it was mentioned many times within the topic itself and Yoshi-P repeated the reasons nearly every time he is asked. accessing retainer space and accessing your personal inventory are two VERY VERY different things. Your personal inventory space is backed up every 15 seconds by the server. It is always with you, always checked and always stored not matter where you are and what you are doing.

Retainers, however, are far more limited. Their inventory isn't subject to change at a moments notice at any time and any place. They can only be accessed in certain places and their inventory only needs to be backed up while it is summoned or when an item is sold. So retainer inventory is FAR less stressful on the server than player inventory is. It's not a ploy to make you buy retainers. They didn't sit down and say "Hey, let's just gouge out more money from players by not giving them space!" It's the way the system was designed WAY before space was ever a problem. And until they fix that problem, the team suggested the only current solution, more retainers.

As for why they won't give a free retainer, I don't know. You can go all "Us vs the MAN! (dev team)" on that one, but please stop acting like every single dev is a greedy money grubbing troll so it's easier for you to hate and cry.
When your solution to a problem is to charge people more money on top of that sub fee for a problem the devs themselves created, then you cross over into greedy money grubbing troll. Nothing is stopping SE from giving people a free retainer to bide time till a real solution is put in place, except greed.