What ever happened to the increase in inventory slots

[Vstarstruck]

Crippled by 1.0 structure. Something about how inventory is sorted in the code, preventing them from adding much more to base inventory, so they had to go a new direction with alternative inventory solutions.

EXACTLY why I made this:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...if-it-continue

There have even been numerous accusations that EA and its ilk deliberately hold back game content with the sole intent of charging a fee for it at a later date. It’s one thing to support a game with new content that is worth the price. It’s another to put out an inferior — and occasionally broken — product with the mindset of “ah, we’ll fix it later and make some money for doing so.”

Sorry it is not on the players to pay extra for you rushing out 2.0. This is not Square EAnix

Because if they doubled the chocobo saddlebags for free, the server would have to deal with an extra 70 slots for every player.

Let's assume a server has 10,000 characters. A free saddlebag increase means the server has an increased load of 700,000 slots. Now, if only 1,000 of those characters would be going for the premium app, that'd lower the amount of saddlebag slots to 70,000. Keep in mind, these are randomly picked numbers.

As much as I dislike the premium app, there's still a clear reason why inventory slots often end up behind an additional fee.

If this is a real legit problem, they shouldn't have so many items in the game then. Either you make enough space for your huge item bloat or you make less items.

So with this method of doing things it makes it appear they are intentionally adding items for the sake in doing so to try get people to pay for more space.