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

[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.