Why are we getting more retainers?

[Muzy]

I miss the list.
So much more efficient than this...5x5 icon thing.

Oh god, this, this is definitely one of things I miss about 1.0

Please please please, give us the option for the list style inventory/retainer inventory again for those of us that like it, and keep the icons for those that prefer that.

[SolArisa]

I miss the list.
So much more efficient than this...5x5 icon thing.

I totally second this. Not having proper sort options or filters makes it even worse.

I don't want to know how many hours I nedlessly spent in the retainers, inventory, or my chest while searching an item.

[joshsecret]

i love the fact that we will have 3 retainers that i can optimize my selling preferences. selling Leather in Gridania, food ingredients in Limsa, and ores in Uldah to skip the tax. plus u can never go wrong w more storage space. too bad the whole supply-demand ratio is already off and will only get worse. RMT must be jumping up and down for this!

[silentwindfr]

i wish the retainer can be send to do some mission or gathering or stuff like this... will have been a nice way to add stuff to do with them

[Kaelah]

3 retainers makes sense to me, one for each city estate.

I still think there should be some kind of bank system though. Allow us to buy a larger vault. (Increase slots by so many each time.) Or something~ (Though knowing SE they would make the cost of expanding the vault ridiculous so maybe not a great idea.) :P

[Zfz]

Most likely because expanding retainer storage means fragmentation in the database, so while it's easy to expand it, it means the game needs to be offline for longer to convert everyone's retainers into the new storage domain, which may cause irrepairable damage if the expansion routine has a bug. So in the end they chose to extend the current system ("don't fix it if it's not broken") instead of modifying the system.

Also, sorting retainers consume less server resources if each time you only sort 100 slots instead of 300 slots.

I'm very unhappy with the split retainer design, but I can live with it.

[Gardes]

Where is this mentioned? I didnt see it on the lodestone, the dev blog or the dev post tracker.

Is it from the Japanese side? How late are we? Are the community rep *gasp* slacking?

[Bixby]

Where is this mentioned? I didnt see it on the lodestone, the dev blog or the dev post tracker.

Is it from the Japanese side? How late are we? Are the community rep *gasp* slacking?

Live letter X summary.

A: While the additional retainer service we announced previously will not be ready for patch 2.1, we'll be increasing the items that can be stored in the Armoire. Rest assured, though, that the additional retainer service is scheduled for implementation before patch 2.2.

[Lyrinn]

A third retainer? Does that mean I get to ruin 20 more markets?

[Deifact]

Yay we can flood the market with more crap no one will ever buy!