helped my SO with sorting inventory today. FFIV needs better inventory management

[Kleeya]

While i can see how players being mainly crafters might need a lot of space, you are kinda too negative here. It is not like you have only 30 inventory places to start with and have to put 15 euros in the cash shop to unlock 10 more, while being limited to stack a maximum of 10 items. I am not saying that there isn't some issues, but FF14's inventory is by far the best i have seen in all the mmos i have tried, even wow's one can't compare to it. You couldn't believe how you will get way less space for a way more expensive price on some so-called "free to play" games. I still remember being impressed by how many free places i did got when unlocking my first two retainers.

Are you sure you dont keep too much useless things ? Not being that much into crafting two retainers are plenty enough for me, even by keeping outdated currencies (like these coeurlregina's horns, it is not like they will add new items for them...). Today taking two minutes to look at my retainer's inventorys i was like "why do i keep these mogs palace of the dead skins ? Oh i remember, the price was too low when i dropped them, maybe it is a good time to do it now with people being all in eureka, prices sure must have gone up", and here you go, i dont have to worry about free space for a while.

[Tsubaki75]

Are you sure you dont keep too much useless things ?

^^^ This, i don't know what level crafting is being done but once you are a certain ilvl even without melds you can stop hording low lvl items. Anything that can be bought from a npc, gathered in a cpl minutes, or bought for pennies on the mb shouldn't be stored. Also I'm willing to bet that there are unneeded hq items taking up space as well. The only hq matts i store are for endgame crafting, everything else is nq and with the stack size being 999 now it really cuts down on needed space.

[Vstarstruck]

Not to be mean here, but it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to read what the item is before you trash it, even if they re-use the same icon and recycled icons isn't even an unheard of thing. There are plenty of other MMO's, as well as single player games like JRPG's, that re-use certain icons. I didn't think that was an end of the world matter?

Not to the degree FFXIV does it, no. 5-10 items should not be using the same icon, esp when 2 or 3 items of the same icon is going in a synth. It is very hard to see when so many items are copy and pasted.

Are you sure you dont keep too much useless things ?

Did you read what I said at all? I was tossing and telling my SO what can be tossed what to be put in glam dresser and such. I should not spend 2 + hours doing so because I can't move items retainer to retainer directly. it was very hard to move all the currencies to one retainer for example. I wanted do that so my SO can see easier what needs to be kept and toss (and honestly I do not know what 70% of the items even are. I would ask do you need this? what is it for? "I don't know" "can you toss it then?"

However that is no excuse to overbloat your game with items. I am the one giving inventory advice, and even with that, I still find turning in the lockboxes frightening. I do not want to do it, it takes too much time, I do not like losing out on a mount because of issues like this , but it is not worth the frustration, so 1600+ lockboxes sit till SE does better to address this issue.

^^^ This, i don't know what level crafting is being done but once you are a certain ilvl even without melds you can stop hording low lvl items.

I even said I tossed out my SO's items that are bought from vendor, but level 70 rafts shouldn't even need materials that costs 5 gil from a npc, all that shows is intentionally bloating inventory for no reason.

Yo know current level 70 items that need natron (however it is spelled) and that takes rock salt? just.. why??? it shouldn't be doing that when inventory issues are this severe.
the fact they sell you 7 extra retainers should be another hint, they do it on purpose so make you spend more.

[Sigma-Astra]

Not to the degree FFXIV does it, no. 5-10 items should not be using the same icon, esp when 2 or 3 items of the same icon is going in a synth. It is very hard to see when so many items are copy and pasted.

To the degree that FFXIV does? I'm pretty sure Persona 4 has gotten it beat there with 5-10 items being the same icon...

Now, you're just being silly and hyperbolizing things that don't need the extra drama.

[Vstarstruck]

To the degree that FFXIV does? I'm pretty sure Persona 4 has gotten it beat there with 5-10 items being the same icon...

Now, you're just being silly and hyperbolizing things that don't need the extra drama.

Yes, I know ffxiv is worse then this, what is your point? that is not how FFXIV lists items, you can tell what it is, those icons is just for telling you it is a potion. If we do this shallow of a comparison, look at how many bottle icons ffxiv has, and those potions, some can heal hp, some heal status effects, some are materials for crafting this, sorry just because you do not see a major flaw in FFXIV, does not mean what I say is "hyperbolizing", the only drama I see, is the drama you are trying to make, trying to compare apples to oranges.

[Sigma-Astra]

...Those are not just "potions" nor are they just "healing items". Before you use the terms "shallow comparison", I'd suggest actually looking at other games because honestly, you just showed that you haven't the faintest clue about what you're talking about here and if anything is shallow, it's your entire argument since you're using an idiom that has no weight or bearing on the conversation. You complained that XIV uses 5-10 items with the same icon, I gave you a game that recycles the same icon for multiple items way worse than what I'd consider XIV's sin to be.

But, clearly it definitely flew way over your head.