Charged 192$ for a six month subscription

[Niwashi]

It's even more convenient than figuring out where your item is, because you can't even craft from your retainer's inventory. Just search up the item, buy it, and there it is, in your inventory.

Well, you can't craft from the MB's inventory either. Either go to your retainer, pick up the item, and it's there in your inventory, or go the MB, find listings for the item, buy the best priced one(s), and it's there in your inventory. Neither is difficult (providing the item is available and you have tons of gil) but the former is more convenient than the later.

[MomomiMomi]

Well, you can't craft from the MB's inventory either. Either go to your retainer, pick up the item, and it's there in your inventory, or go the MB, find listings for the item, buy the best priced one(s), and it's there in your inventory. Neither is difficult (providing the item is available and you have tons of gil) but the former is more convenient than the later.

For the retainer you have to go to use your search function, go to the right retainer, and then find the item. MB you just search and it's right there. MB is far more convenient.

You obviously have gil. You've sold all your items if you use the MB instead of retainers.

Now, if you could craft from your retainers, that would change. You wouldn't need to find the item. But that's not the case.

[Dreggit]

I agree completely, but what I pointed out had nothing to do with budgets, so I'm not sure why you quoted it on a post that didn't pertain to anything I said.

I'm sorry, I appear to have misinterpreted. Sorry for the trouble.

[Krokov]

I have never run into a material that I can't just buy off of the market board whenever I need it. Generally, the only cost you're paying is the market board tax, because you already sold the item in the past, you're just paying what your received before to get it back.

It's even more convenient than figuring out where your item is, because you can't even craft from your retainer's inventory. Just search up the item, buy it, and there it is, in your inventory.

That is correct most items can be But off the market board I usually don't buy aftermarket board if I can help it for I can craft the item or gather it I usually won't buy off the market board unless it's The only real option or something else. One way to explain would be If I'm making an item and requires said item as a material for I have that in stock from whenever that saves me time and money because I don't have to go gather it and I don't have to buy it off the market board or NPC. Some I say fine is easier but when you're poor you have to be frugal when you can to get make the items you want.

[CorbinDallas]

Eh, I have 3 extra retainers and they're almost all full (5 total). Mostly with gear (currently have 200/200 glamour dresser) I don't want to re-farm but a LOT of them are currencies I don't want to have to farm again. Currencies. . . despite having a currency tab that SE refuses to update.

Every new raid is 7 extra currencies in normal, more on savage, plus EX totems. This game has so much item bloat it's insane.

I count 14 "current" currencies. 7 NM, 4 savage, 2 24 man, and Suzaku, that isn't bloat. Any others are irrelevant and should be thrown away unless you're saving for primal mounts, since you can go back and farm them easily due to gear creep. Why are you holding on to them?

[Liam_Harper]

I don't see why the fact you can manage your items is justification for Enix charging more than twice a regular sub fee if you want the amount of storage space other games offer for free.

I have 2 retainers and I'm a lv70 omnicrafter/gatherer. So I manage. But I don't see it as a positive point that I have a fraction the amount of storage that I did in WoW. It would be nice to have more storage. For example, one of the first things I did at 70 was reduce all my non-endgame HQ mats to NQ. But then frequently friends or FC are leveling crafters and I wished I still had that stack of 520 HQ twincoon to pass over to them since it would help them a ton. I can't even pop them in the Company Chest because that has no storage too.

The cost of max bag space is excessive. Tbh even 1 more free retainer would be great.

[Deceptus]

I count 14 "current" currencies. 7 NM, 4 savage, 2 24 man, and Suzaku, that isn't bloat. Any others are irrelevant and should be thrown away unless you're saving for primal mounts, since you can go back and farm them easily due to gear creep. Why are you holding on to them?

+one tier prior currencies which are current for newer players (or alt jobs) so at least 14 more slots

+ Cracked Clusters, Anemos Lockbox, Pagos lockbox, Anemos Crystal, Pagos Crystal, Protean Crystal, Paz feathers, Louhi Ice, glamour prisms . . . There are even more than that I don't care to list. Hydaelyn help you if you're a gatherer or crafter.

I'll absolutely admit I'm a gear hoarder, I have to do that because the glamour dresser is so bad. But it's pretty ignorant to insinuate this game doesn't have item bloat, it's extremely blatant.

The large majority of those inventory slots should be in the currency tab, but SE doesn't because retainer money.

[MomomiMomi]

I don't see why the fact you can manage your items is justification for Enix charging more than twice a regular sub fee if you want the amount of storage space other games offer for free.

I have 2 retainers and I'm a lv70 omnicrafter/gatherer. So I manage. But I don't see it as a positive point that I have a fraction the amount of storage that I did in WoW. It would be nice to have more storage. For example, one of the first things I did at 70 was reduce all my non-endgame HQ mats to NQ. But then frequently friends or FC are leveling crafters and I wished I still had that stack of 520 HQ twincoon to pass over to them since it would help them a ton. I can't even pop them in the Company Chest because that has no storage too.

The cost of max bag space is excessive. Tbh even 1 more free retainer would be great.

It's no justification at all. It's ludicrous that F2P and B2P games offer better storage options than this game. At the very least, we should be given +1 free retainer per expansion.

[Aerlana]

I count 14 "current" currencies. 7 NM, 4 savage, 2 24 man, and Suzaku, that isn't bloat. Any others are irrelevant and should be thrown away unless you're saving for primal mounts, since you can go back and farm them easily due to gear creep. Why are you holding on to them?

the matter is, you say yourself it is currencies. So, why not adding them in currency tab?
Simply... ?

even if there were only 10, would be strange to not having currencies in currency tab...

[AngelCheese77]

For all those bashing about the OPs life decisions and money ...

Stop. I am in the same boat. Unless you are through what they are, keep quiet. I've had things all lined up correctly in spreadsheets, and then one time a company decided to take out a montly payment before or after they were supposed to. And no, you cannot ask them to not do that. Nor can you account for emergencies, like emergency gas or needing a taxi cause the BUS you were to take from the city wasn't RUNNING .. ARGH!

As for the OP, yes, you do get an e-mail a few days ahead, and yes, there really isn't much you can do. I wish I could help, but I'm in the same boat as you due to certain life situations. Keeping my fingers crossed you can get some monetary help!