More storage space is long overdue

[SingleMaltFan]

We're heading into a new expansion, and I quite simply don't have room for another expansion's worth of items. We are long overdue for an upgrade for our storage. We've still got the same 2 free retainers we had in ARR, and we're heading into the fourth expansion. The glamour dresser needs a massive increase in space, too.

I've heard all the counter-arguments. Square makes too much money on retainer rentals to give us any more free ones. Muh servers and their spaghetti code. You need to manage your inventory better. Blah blah blah.

I'd be a lot more inclined to maintain a sub to farm old content for glam if I had any room for it.

They're spending the resources for a stat squish (which I have serious doubts will go well), so how about spending some resources on something a large percentage of the player base really wants.

At the very least, give us a big storage shed on that island they're promising us. It will presumably be instanced, so should only affect the servers when we actually zone into the place.

[grimgamer09]

No it is not, the storage space you have is manageable. You just sound terrible at organising it!! Let me guess, you have ten Triple Triad cards sitting in your inventory, waiting for the day you're not too lazy to go turn them in for MGP..

[Coletergeist]

+1 to storage space.
Crafting with all the shid I need is hard to store, along with housing items, glams, this and that.
Pls.

[WhyAmIHere]

No it is not, the storage space you have is manageable. You just sound terrible at organising it!! Let me guess, you have ten Triple Triad cards sitting in your inventory, waiting for the day you're not too lazy to go turn them in for MGP..

"I dont feel like farming for these glamour pieces / dyes / materia / crafting mats / eureka bits / raid food / raid pots / crafting food / crafting medicine / gathering food / cordials, lemme just hang on to these iiiinnnnnn... oh, i'm out of space."

The saddlebag is the only non-paid for inventory increase that's happened AFAIK. Pointing out that SE is poor at optimizing their storage system for players and just keep pushing for people to pay for additional retainers ain't always "just get rid of the misc items you're hoarding."

[White_Wolf_X]

They could easy turn at least half of the "Key items & Crystals" slots into normal inventory.

[Themarvin]

Dont need more than what got, no matter how much space, would eventually run out of it and that would put people back to the origin of the 'fix' again... sell all the garbage off and keep only what you need.

[Jin-]

That useless quest item inventory has way too much space. 3/4 of that should be allocated to other uses.

[Jojoya]

The best thing you can do for yourself is learn not to hoard things "just in case". Everything sitting unused in your inventory represents gil lost.

Get rid of everything you haven't used in the last week except items that are rare and difficult/expensive to obtain.

No, those stacks of crafting materials you haven't used in a month aren't difficult or rare to obtain. Most of them can be purchased straight off a vendor now that SE has added HW/SB basic crafting materials along with ARR gems to vendors (assuming they aren't cheaper on the MB, which they frequently are). Can you even remember the last time you used all the Cloud Cloth and Chigusa Ingots you're sitting on? Do you even know what they're used to craft? The new "search by recipe using this material" is helpful. Look to see what the material makes and ask yourself if you're going to be crafting any of those items in the next week. If not, sell off the material.

When you do need something you don't have, just buy or gather the amount you need. If you're buying off the MB and have to get more than what you need, sell what's leftover when you're done.

Don't stockpile every dye that comes your way with the exception of the general purpose dyes. They're far too easy to get even if you're changing your glamour and dyeing daily. Just keep those few favorite colors you're using the most.

All those old raid tokens you've been collecting? Use them. Go buy gear to turn in for GC seals. If you have a few odd tokens leftover, discard them.

Piles of materia? Sell any DoW/DoM materia below level VII, or below level VIII if you don't advance meld. You don't need materia while leveling and if you do want some, most of them are cheap on the MB (sometimes below sell to vendor price). DoH/DoL materia is similar. If you don't pentameld, you don't need to keep anything but VIIIs once you're at level cap. If you do pentameld, you know which materia you want in the lesser grades. Get rid of the rest.

Dark Matter? No point in keeping any but the highest grade. Sell the rest off.

All those old hunting logs? Useless now. Discard them.

Items for relic weapon grinds? If you're finished with your grind, discard the leftovers because they're also useless.

You don't need to be carrying around a dozen different stacks of food. Trim it down to one for DoH, one for DoL, and one or two for your combat jobs. Sell off the rest.

Potions? When's the last time you actually used them? Get rid of them.

Housing items - only keep the seasonal event items and other items that can't be easily re-obtained. If it can be crafted, you can buy it when you need it.

Seriously, take a look at what you have in your inventory and ask yourself when's the last time you used it. If you can't remember, you don't need it. Even if you do remember, you probably still don't need it. You can always get the item again if you do need it in the future.

"I dont feel like farming for these glamour pieces / dyes / materia / crafting mats / eureka bits / raid food / raid pots / crafting food / crafting medicine / gathering food / cordials, lemme just hang on to these iiiinnnnnn... oh, i'm out of space."

The saddlebag is the only non-paid for inventory increase that's happened AFAIK. Pointing out that SE is poor at optimizing their storage system for players and just keep pushing for people to pay for additional retainers ain't always "just get rid of the misc items you're hoarding."

And what MMOs out there give us more total inventory than FFXIV does?

Haven't played WoW since Legion but back then we maxed out at 476 inventory slots (that's including the reagent bank tab) assuming we were using all 30 slot bags.

Here we've got 560 general use slots plus an additional 820 restricted slots for gear.

We are absolutely the problem because we want to keep hoarding things we aren't using. Players need to learn to manage inventory better.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

"I dont feel like farming for these glamour pieces / dyes / materia / crafting mats / eureka bits / raid food / raid pots / crafting food / crafting medicine / gathering food / cordials, lemme just hang on to these iiiinnnnnn... oh, i'm out of space."

The saddlebag is the only non-paid for inventory increase that's happened AFAIK. Pointing out that SE is poor at optimizing their storage system for players and just keep pushing for people to pay for additional retainers ain't always "just get rid of the misc items you're hoarding."

We got an additional 40 inventory slots during 4.0 I believe.

[SturmChurro]

Considering they had to remove belts to give us more space for mainhand/rings, I assume this is a big ask. They even saved like five slots for a rainy day. That's really bad..