Intial Thoughts on FFXIV after 1 week~

[Enkidoh]

Welcome to Eorzea!

Firstly, you can get around the 1000-letter-per-post limit by posting a paragraph, then going back and editing in the rest of what you want to say (the characters-per-post limit is only for doing the initial post, not editing).

Secondly, if I can perhaps elaborate on why SE have implemented some of the things you have commented on to give an alternative view on them:

The amount of inventory space is just too limiting in the game, especially with high and low-quality gear.

This is a noted problem by the development team but not one that can easily be remedied due to how items in the game are coded and stored server wise in real time. The next expansion is featuring a partial increase in the Armoury Chest coinciding with the removal of belts which are considered little needed and their gear spaces given over to weapons and rings which will help a little. Retainers are meant to be a means of alternaltive gear storage, but they too quickly fill up. Unfortunately there is no easy fix to this.

Along with that note, please make the shops make more sense when you are selling items. Why do high-quality items sell for 2 Gil? It took an hour to farm all of those materials why is suddenly 20 of them worth 40 Gil. It's not rewarding especially when you don't have space.

The reason for this was back in FFXIV's MMO predecessor FFXI players realized certain trash materials dropped by certain enemies out in the field sold for quite high amounts at NPC shops and so it created a major headache for players as farmers congreated on the one area all competing for the limited amount of enemies to try and stack tons of these items they would then sell for large amounts to NPCs, often using illegal mods and bots or outright MPKing others to do so, or at the very least, using certain legitimate gear to give them the edge to do do (I remember there was one particular player farming those enemies with a machine crossbow, a weapon that had an extremely high attack speed meaning other players simply could not get a look in).

SE responded eventually by greatly reducing the resell price at NPC stores in general in a patch, and thus killed that market, and as a result they implemented the same thing here in FFXIV ARR from the very beginning in order to prevent a repeat of that nonsense. If you want to sell materials it's better to sell them on the Market Board, although that takes longer of course. Selling things to NPC stores is simply to get rid of junk in your inventory, not for financial gain.

(more coming)