Why are we getting more retainers?

[CYoung187]

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

Agreed. Market supply is already too much, this will make it worse. Prices will fall after this patch even more. Everyone could use more storage space, but this is a bad way to do it. I keep looking at that armoire in my inn room thinking "oh that looks nice, wish I could use it."

I mean OMG SHINY NEW RETAINER!

[Kyra]

fucking threads like this piss me off, thanks for wasting everyone time with nonsense.

here is some more subjects for threads you could do.

"Why are we getting chocobo racing this patch?"
"Why are we getting gold saucer this patch?"
"Why are we getting personal housing this patch?"

[Felis]

A new retainer don't give you only 175 more space, but also 20 AH slots and 9999 more slots for shards/crystals/clusters
I would use my 3rd retainer as my food cabinet, i think. He get everything that would be useful for my culinarian

Yes. Please. I'd even be willing to use the F2P bank style of having limited slots and having to pay money to open more. Seriously, this game needs a cash shop. I'd sink ridiculous amounts of money into buying vanity items and bank slots. You. Just. Don't. Know.

This was planned at the start of 1.0. First retainer for free, every extra retainer 1$ each month. People didn't like this idea. So buyable retainers never came. Retainer storage space were 80 slots at this time and only 10 slots for sell.

[Airikay]

I have only seen the tax discount once and that was during open beta. Ever since, I have seen it at the normal rate for every city. What is it that affects tax rate? I have heard that it depends on the number of retainers dispatched to a city.

If you buy from the city state the retainer is stationed, you pay no tax, if you buy it from a different city state there's like an additional tax above cost of item price. I think you're confused with the selling tax, but the post ypu quoted was about people could buy from him without a tax.

[Mikedizzy]

I cannot believe that players are complaining about getting another retainer...organize your stuff better if you are one of those who cannot find stuff.
I have all my gear on first retainer and all Materia and crafting items on 2nd retainer. Cannot wait for the third retainer...I am getting short on space and I have only leveled LWK and MINER...I could not imagine the lack of space if I was leveling mutliple other crafting classes and had to store all that stuff...LOL.
They did say that since the retainer did not make it in to 2.1 it should for sure make it in to 2.2.

[Maero]

Yes not sure why some of you are so annoyed or what not by this. I for one would gladly have 1 more retainer. Now can have 1 in each of the major cities, Uldah, Limsa and Gridania.

[Gilthas]

When Yoshi answered that question in the live letter I was happy that a third retainer was on its way. Though then someone pointed out that calling it a "service" probably means that you'll have to pay extra for the third retainer.

Though maybe you have to pay for it with gil instead of real life money.

[Shyluv]

A source for confirmation would be appreciated.

[Skivvy]

Why not make an inventory system like the one in GW2 where your crafting materials dont really occupy space and instead are all available at all times? God knows how seriously fulfilling it was to open that tab and see ALL your crafting items, and how many you had of each.

A million times this. I loved how they had this setup for crafting mats. I also loved how the crafting stations "held" your materials and so you didn't have to go retrieve them first.

[Priya]

They're probably annoyed because it's a bad system to expand upon, not because they are anti storage space. I agree the retainers are awful, but the thousands of threads on server structure and PS3 should answer why this is the system we are stuck with. I would not place any bets on ever having a proper one-stop-shop banking system. The hardware can't handle loading so much at once.