Quote Originally Posted by Celia View Post
I'd rather not have retainers getting involved in activities like gathering and crafting. I played Star Wars: The Old Republic while it was beta and again briefly after it was released via a trial version.

In that game you had companions who could obtain crew skills which could be used to gather and craft items, I was constantly sending these companions out to just get junk for me to sell, and the crafting and gathering of the game were really cheapened by the lack of any hands on approach that we have in FFXIV. I liked crafting and gathering in 1.0, and I loved it even more in ARR's alpha.
SE is not dumb they would fix any issue i don't know why people so worry. SE is known to release something and it just not as good as you think it was. This Retainer system to get item i bet they just gather junk for the most part and very few good item. It be good for casual players to have small gil to get by but for rest of the player base they be doing the work themself and using the retainer to make junk cash to have when needed.