Quote Originally Posted by Xlantaa View Post
Well. Stop buying retainers. No one buy retainers. That service will die.

But if you pay for 9 retainers, well. They won't stop. It is the same as DLC. If you don't want DLC everywhere, stop buying them.
I’m a huge fan of the vote-with-your-wallet philosophy (it’s why I refused to buy anything off the Mog Station. I’m already paying you for that content Square, every single month).

The problem with that philosophy and retainers is that the game is designed to waste inventory space. I have two whole retainers JUST to hold on to glamour gear and that’s only for two different jobs, that’s in addition to needing 2 slots for any current crafting material (NQ and HQ), a good ten slots just to hold onto maps because for some reason they’re marked as unique items, the seven different current raid currencies, two slots for Chocobo summoning items and food, another slot for fish meal for gardening, etc. So many ways they take up inventory doesn’t have to be in the game or doesn’t have to be as bad.

Thankfully they’re making small improvements out help (999 stacks is appreciated, as 2is moving beasttribe currencies into the currency tab...mind you it came months after I started tossing those currencies to save space) but every patch adds dozens of new materials and gear we need to store.

The only way to have space for all of that is retainers. The game is designed in such a way that you either pay for retainers or you have or discard items that you earned. It is beyond frustrating. :/