Quote Originally Posted by Mwynn View Post
I think Extra Retainers are sometimes not even about the Inventory Space, but limited Sell Slots you have, basically it's kinda becoming a small Pay2Win Option if you go against People in Food/Pot Business that have 8 Retainers versus your 2 Retainers.
I would not entirely disagree, but I do think this will enter the equation regardless. It's mostly a question of how convenient it is. If they didn't allow people to purchase added retainers, I expect instead you'd see a rise in people with two service accounts, since that way they can trade between characters, and more easily manage "mules." They could still effectively recreate the scenario you described, it'd just be a bit more work to do. (Though this is where the new app would actually become convenient.) In the end, you could probably argue that retainers are really just an NPC version of mules you might have on other MMOs, and this implementation is a lot more practical for people on consoles (since you can't easily "dual-box" like you can on PC).

This is not to say that anything and everything is therefore okay, but whatever sorts of limits you impose, some people will see an advantage of being to defeat those limits in whatever ways the system makes possible. That being said, I bet if you did a poll, people would rate "paying for a second subscription to get more inventory space/market listings" a lot lower on the "Feels P2W" scale, because it's a more oldschool/traditional approach that doesn't involve a microtransaction.