Veteran Reward: Third retainer

[l---------------l]

I'd exchange, delete and relinquish my right to use the Strife outfit forever if I could exchange that for 4-6 retainers for free.

SE make it plox.

[Cwestcott18]

Its making money, why give something for free, when there are people already buying it

[Derio]

It would have to be a high up reward though. perhaps it should be around the 1000 day mark. Especially considering they are making money by selling extra retainers.

[Cherie]

They talked about this in the most recent live letter. Sure money probably has something to do with it, but their explanation made sense.

Storing items increases the amount of data your player character takes up. By default you are given a ton of space, more than most MMOs (I mean 2 retainers might not seem like a lot, but isn't that more than 300 items AND the armory too). All of those items you store take up space and increases not only the data stored, but effects data access, every time you start flipping through all your retainers it taxes the server load a little. If they gave like just one more retainer to everyone, then suddenly item usage goes up like 50%. I don't think people pay for retainers as much as people think. I know the people (like me) that like to mess around with market board might have one or two extra.

How badly do you need that first coil armor piece that you haven't glamoured to anything for 15months anyway? I dumped the lot of the stuff I out-leveled except a few key things I liked.

I wouldn't mind more space personally, but I remember my WoW bank never had as much as this game does with no extra retainers.

[Sir_Hermes]

I'd be happy with a gobble bag quest for another 20 slots or so in our inventories <.<

[DracotheDragon]

they already said before HW dropped that they wouldn't give away an extra retainer literally because of server limitations :c (and then put another 2 that you could buy D: )

[Chiramu]

Server space... Servers are not free to run and the space on them is finite.
You pay for additional retainers because you are paying for that space on the server.

[Jynx]

No.

There should be no veteran rewards that give a distinct in game advantage. Retainers are despite the common misconception very powerful gameplay tools not just storage racks.

I'm also against selling them as an additional service for this reason as well.

If they are to ever consider this not paying for a in game advantage all functions aside from storage would need to be removed IMHO.

[Colorful]

No.

There should be no veteran rewards that give a distinct in game advantage. Retainers are despite the common misconception very powerful gameplay tools not just storage racks.

I'm also against selling them as an additional service for this reason as well.

If they are to ever consider this not paying for a in game advantage all functions aside from storage would need to be removed IMHO.

There's already an advantage we could pay for, those being additional retainers so it makes no difference (6 retainers is slightly crossing that pay to win line tbh, pay for gil at least). Regardless, it makes sense. The longer you've played the game, the more items you'd likely have gathered, no? I don't believe they should put it in the later veteran rewards though, what is it now, 2.5+ years. Put it around 150 days I guess.

[WellFooled]

No.

There should be no veteran rewards that give a distinct in game advantage. Retainers are despite the common misconception very powerful gameplay tools not just storage racks.

I'm also against selling them as an additional service for this reason as well.

If they are to ever consider this not paying for a in game advantage all functions aside from storage would need to be removed IMHO.

I agree, but if given a choice between paying extra money for storage or getting that same storage as a side effect of the subscription I'm already paying, I choose the lesser of two evils.

I have one retainer set aside to save gear for two of my jobs (pld and mch!) and that retainer has no space left whatsoever and every patch adds at least 20-30 new items (again, just for those two jobs and none of the other eleven battle classes or gathering/crafting classes) that I want to hold onto. I'll take anything I can get to alleviate this storage problem.