Quote Originally Posted by Erza_Scarlets View Post
PS: People forget se's excuse of why they couldn't add more to the invo and saddlebag till they put double saddlebag behind another paywall with crappy promo sub for the app.
Its funny when their server issues magically disappear when they add another paywall to get said invo/bag.
Plus it's only going to get worse and worse they can and will make more higher priced items cause they will always sell.
I'm not sure it's that suspicious for them to provide you with more storage space (=data allowance) if you pay them for it.

Their servers aren't an infinite amount of data storage. They will have allocated a certain amount per character, and then you have to pay them for extra inventory, whether it's hiring additional retainers or paying for the extended saddlebag via the app. It's an ongoing cost for them to maintain the servers that are storing that data.

Whether it's a fair amount to charge is a different debate, of course. But for the app at least, it's providing a few different services to those who find them useful, and the extra inventory is only part of it. (For those who don't want the other app features, an additional retainer is cheaper than an app subscription and gives 2.5 times as many extra inventory slots.)


Though something else I wondered about the app - is there any chance they're using the app itself to store the extra saddlebag items? In which case they are both cutting down on extra data on their server, sidestepping their server issues and presumably paying for that storage that has been outsourced to iCloud or whatever.

Does anyone here have the app? Can you access the "app saddlebag" in-game or only through the app?



I also see nothing suspicious (or deliberate) about this update happening on Christmas. It's a Tuesday. That's maintenance day. The new items added have been in the pipeline for ages, and aren't being promoted as "Christmas items" in any way - if they wanted to do that, surely they would have saved the Starlight Bear mount for it?