Stop with the pay to win advanages for retainers, suggestions on fixes

[Vstarstruck]

I felt this was relevant.

Basically this. The Web/Mobile Auction had a lot more issues with keeping it up than it was really worth for the small amount of players that actually used it. Trying to tackle and fix those issues (for transparency the majority were just exploits) just takes dev time away from working on new content. While it may change in the future, we currently at this time aren't planning to bring this back.

Why yes, yes it is, it would be nice to have that kind of communication here.

It is called the fundamental of the democracy, minority obeys majority.
Calling Retainers a pay to win is already highly debatable (laughable at the best), you don't even have anything to calling S/E at same level as EA and Konami while there is still a Blizzard who is selling loot box in Overwatch and token in World of Warcraft

interesting... you do realize... no government on earth is pure democracy? The only thing laughable here is your white knighting. Heck even your username is close to it, "Divineknights" To think minority "obeys" majority is downright laughable, what a joke. Them paying extra has nothing to do with our concerns, I am sure they would be happier if it was free (and should be) and removing those BS moogle coins. The "majority" can also be wrong, that is why no pure democracy exists.

Yes, it is PtW (by the definition of giving a significant advantage). Having read over the thread I can't help wondering if all the people arguing it isn't PtW are simply happy with the present system where we rent retainers or if they have just got hooked up on semantics.

I have a couple of friends who have the maximum amount of retainers and they have made a significant amount of gil out of them, running ventures on all of them as often as they can. Of course it is possible to rent extra retainers and get barely anything out of them besides the storage. However, just because some players don't make full use of them, doesn't mean retainers don't give a significant advantage to those who manage them well.

+1, ty.