Inventory space in this game is UNNACEPTABLE for a subscription based game.

[Canadane]

Option 3 - manage your stuff better.

[HagenDazs]

1 - Cya o/

If I don't find a way to keep leveling and managing stuff, I won't buy additional retainers so I'm gonna quit.
Sad to see that you agree with this greedy scam.

Option 3 - manage your stuff better.

I'm gathering stuff to level up the jobs, i'm already getting rid of what I MAY not use it for now, still no space anymore.
So you are a very experienced player in managing stuff, could you give me advices on how to do it?

[Arazehl]

Listen, I agree space management is hard in this game, but if you're going to threaten to quit because of it than most people don't care. Your crafters are level 1 since last the lodestone updated. Throw away all that vendor trash. Don't hoard things like fireworks, furnishings and other event items unless you have a place to put it. I mean come back and talk when your gatherers are up in level and they are supporting higher level crafting classes. If you're complaining before it's really begun, then you should quit or suck it up and buy that extra retainer or two. The "I quit because I don't like something" gets old.

[Callinon]

Listen, I agree space management is hard in this game, but if you're going to threaten to quit because of it than most people don't care. Your crafters are level 1 since last the lodestone updated. Throw away all that vendor trash. Don't hoard things like fireworks, furnishings and other event items unless you have a place to put it. I mean come back and talk when your gatherers are up in level and they are supporting higher level crafting classes. If you're complaining before it's really begun, then you should quit or suck it up and buy that extra retainer or two. The "I quit because I don't like something" gets old.

All my crafting classes are 80. I've pentamelded all my gear and am currently working on pentamelding tools.

Paying extra subscription fees just to have adequate storage space is bullshit in a subscription game. Hell it'd be bullshit in a f2p game. Exactly no f2p game I'm aware of makes you RENT your bank space. Virtually all of them make you buy it outright, but none of them keep charging you just to keep it. Whether this guy's crafting classes are leveled or not doesn't make him wrong about this. He's right on the money that this is crap.

I'm actually getting to the point right now where I'm eyeing a fifth retainer because of all the garbage I have to keep in stock all the time. And that's WITH decent inventory management on my part.

[Arazehl]

All my crafting classes are 80. I've pentamelded all my gear and am currently working on pentamelding tools.

Paying extra subscription fees just to have adequate storage space is bullshit in a subscription game. Hell it'd be bullshit in a f2p game. Exactly no f2p game I'm aware of makes you RENT your bank space. Virtually all of them make you buy it outright, but none of them keep charging you just to keep it. Whether this guy's crafting classes are leveled or not doesn't make him wrong about this. He's right on the money that this is crap.

I'm actually getting to the point right now where I'm eyeing a fifth retainer because of all the garbage I have to keep in stock all the time. And that's WITH decent inventory management on my part.

I'm not saying it's not bs, but you know your options as well as I do. We all know our options, but for me I don't think quitting is one of them. It's a pay to craft world in Eorzea no denying that.

[Fynlar]

We have toooooons of space in this game. Even more than what we used to.

It's absolutely guaranteed you're carrying garbage around if you're been keeping everything. Price check everything, see what's worth keeping, see what's worth dumping, see what's worth selling to lazy people who can't be bothered to get it themselves. That's how you actually make profit as you level, as opposed to draining gil.

[Niwashi]

Price check everything, see what's worth keeping, see what's worth dumping, see what's worth selling to lazy people who can't be bothered to get it themselves.

The problem is that that takes a huge amount of time and effort. Back when I was trying to get by with just the two free retainers we're allowed without raising our subscription costs, inventory management reached the point where it ate up more than half of my game time. It turns FFXIV into a pretty dull game when it consists mostly of shuffling items around while looking up availability on each one.

Paying for a couple extra retainers cut down the frequency of that requirement, allowing me to spend more time actually playing the game, though of course I still have to periodically stop to sort out the accumulated inventory mess. While without that extra space, it would, strictly speaking, have been possible to play the game, it wouldn't have been a fun enough game to be worth playing. Being able to focus on the game itself, rather than just inventory management, shouldn't incur extra fees in a pay to play game. It should be the normal default state.

[Canadane]

If I don't find a way to keep leveling and managing stuff, I won't buy additional retainers so I'm gonna quit.
Sad to see that you agree with this greedy scam.


I'm gathering stuff to level up the jobs, i'm already getting rid of what I MAY not use it for now, still no space anymore.
So you are a very experienced player in managing stuff, could you give me advices on how to do it?

I’d be happy to. The solution is simple, don’t worry about levelling them all equally at the same time.
Focus on say, the metal using crafters first. Don’t keep lots of cloth or food until it’s time to do those classes.

The ideal way to level a crafter is levequests or collectables. So if you know what levequest you need to spam, you realistically only need those materials gathered and nothing more.

Anything you aren’t immediately going to use, sell off or throw away. They can be re-gathered.

[J-Sharpie]

I leveled all my crafters and gatherer with just two retainers. You need to manage it better.

Having a lot of space won't fix the problem for two reasons.
1. Having more space will just make you go "This is still not enough"
2. Market supply to be inflated, so when it comes to the material availability it'll just making things too cheap if a lot of them is available.

[Lunafreya]

Option 3 - manage your stuff better.

Option 4: Make more retainers free.