Why is retainer STORAGE not buy once have forever?

[Catwho]

Because it's the same model that they used in XI, where they charged you an extra $1 for each alt character you had on your account, and those characters each came with 7 AH slots and 50 extra storage spaces. I think I had 5 extra characters on my account, in addition to 3 characters on a second account, by the time I finally quit FFXI. Unlike XIV, it was trivial to transfer stuff to other characters on your account.

They switched up the model a bit for XIV so that people could actually use their extra character slots to develop characters. With retainers, they gave you more market board slots and more than double the storage for twice the price, but a retainer is basically just an XI alt that you don't get to play with, otherwise.

[Sakuraluna]

I would have been fine with $1 per retainer though. Much more than I am with $2 and I feel like I'd be more likely to rent additional retainers if the price made me feel like I could get more for my money.

[KitingGenbu]

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There seems to be a couple of things I'm lacking to understand with your references of the two games, so clarify if I misinterpret. 1) You're saying its easier to move stuff between characters in XIV vs XI? I'm sure I misunderstood that. 2) XI's additional characters at 50 space base (+ w/e space you get if you had a token), but you could also expand that space to the maximum you had on your main, all done through in game means. So XI's space system was better for your money in this regard. Especially in recent years since they allows you to move 'bound' items to characters on the same account.

To note though, a retainer is more than a storage, since you can use it to make you extra money/get materials passively etc. So in that regard, it might be worth the 2$ extra a month, especially since it gives you an extra retainer per character on the account.

What I feel would help quell the space issue to some degree is to allow people to store more item sets similar to the first class armor you get. Like letting us store raid gear sets/dungeon sets etc. But I'm sure their number response to that would be 'it would put too much stress on the servers.'

[NoahArks]

I would have been fine with $1 per retainer though. Much more than I am with $2 and I feel like I'd be more likely to rent additional retainers if the price made me feel like I could get more for my money.

I would've been willing to pay 5bucks as long as they're permanent. I'm already boycotting the cash shop though. Since I remember a certain developer *cough*yoship*cough* mentioning that clothing from 1.0 seasonal events woudlnt show up in there. Guess what happened? lol

[Niqote]

I would've been willing to pay 5bucks as long as they're permanent. I'm already boycotting the cash shop though. Since I remember a certain developer *cough*yoship*cough* mentioning that clothing from 1.0 seasonal events woudlnt show up in there. Guess what happened? lol

Source please. As I never recall that being said.
I only recall 'No pay to win' which is a promise kept so far.

[Sakuraluna]

I would've been willing to pay 5bucks as long as they're permanent. I'm already boycotting the cash shop though.

I'm sort of with you on that. I'm not really boycotting the cash shop as a whole though as much as the retainers, I refuse to buy into them anymore than the original two paid ones that I've been using since long before the additional ones were added.

I just like xi's method of giving you an additional full character that you could level up a bit and quest on, craft on, and expand it's inventory as needed in addition to getting the base amount of inventory and market board space as your main, for half the price of a retainer. If they'd have given us something more similar to that in the beginning I'd have been happy. (Or at least give us a quest line that allows us to expand our current retainers' inventories if not another free retainer, instead of continuously pressing us to buy more retainers which isn't a solution to the problem.)

[Blood-Aki]

Money, Clearly, No one really buys this "server limitation" excuse, they have already showed adding extra space is not a problem....As long as you pay them.