[Survey] Do you want more retainers? Would you be willing to pay for them?

[Viridiana]

I would prefer having one spot that I can expand as opposed to hiring more and more retainers.

True. I was just thinking within the limits of the current system, I wouldn't mind having 110 more storage space, even if it cost me $1 a month.

That's interesting how people derail anything here. You don't need to think about amount of retainers at MW or about retainer storage space or whatelse...the thing is that the extra retainer system will be ingame (it already is even listed at monthly fee list) so i'm just asking if you would want it now or later... ^^:

Paying 1 buck for an extra retainer would be exactly the very same mechanic as having a storage mules like everyone had in FFXI...the difference is that here it all would be linked to your character so you wouldn't need to constantly logging in/out to manage stuff.

Also, the retainers are in like 10% of their potential right now...i can see it having many more extra features once they finish adjusting the current features (storage and market delay, unstability, etc).

And that's why i posted his. Would be very interesting offer SE a feedback regarding the possibility of activating the billing system of retainers if there are enough positive feedback regarding it! ^^

We've gone back and forth on this point before, if I'm not mistaken. Suffice to say, I don't see this ever happening. I'll just leve off by reiterating this:

Well this does affect people playing currently. If one person has 6 retainers they are taking the spots of 3 people without extra retainers. How does that leave people unaffected?

You are saying not to worry about the amount of retainers in the MW because it's going to be fixed later. The fact is that if people got extra retainers now then the market wards would be broken until they got fixed.

[Nuinn]

No, I don't want more retainers, nor do I want to pay for them since, eventually, I'm going to be paying a full subscription to this game. XIV is not (going to be) a freemium type of game, or even close, as far as I know. I'm still getting over the fact that I had to pay extra for alts in XI (just like we have to in XIV). Admittedly it's a small price, but it's still out of my pocket, continuously over a long period of time.

The recent announced changes to retainer and ward modifications is, I feel, just going to take place till they figure out what they really want to do with retainers, as I think right now devs are clueless about that aspect of the game.

Make and auction house and turn retainers into our virtual sellers - in other words, retainer = number of items we can sell in auction house. Make quests for more retainer/AH space (or if you must) make us pay more $$$ for that instead for more new retainers. The RMT are raging with or without an AH so that's not really an excuse any more.

(and since I already started ranting :P they really need to give us a 'lock item' option for inventories, as well as 'sell all' and 'buyback' for NPC stores - selling junk items after grinding DoL one by one is not fun, nor is selling my Harlequin gear due to latency/lag/missclick)

[Lienn]

Well this does affect people playing currently. If one person has 6 retainers they are taking the spots of 3 people without extra retainers. How does that leave people unaffected?

If you think so then you might not be following dev posts. They will increase the amount of retainers per ward so nop, it wouldn't affect those not willing to pay for extra retainers.

No, I don't want more retainers, nor do I want to pay for them since, eventually, I'm going to be paying a full subscription to this game. XIV is not (going to be) a freemium type of game, or even close, as far as I know. I'm still getting over the fact that I had to pay extra for alts in XI (just like we have to in XIV). Admittedly it's a small price, but it's still out of my pocket, continuously over a long period of time.

So it should actually be an "yes", right? Because 3 bucks of an alt character with 2 retainers is the very same as 1 buck three times to have extra 3 retainers...with the difference you will have 3 retainers to be placed at MH against 2 of alt character case.

[ClashBlades]

If you think so then you might not be following dev posts. They will increase the amount of retainers per ward so nop, it wouldn't affect those not willing to pay for extra retainers.

They WILL increase... You are making a survey of adding more retainers now. This is not rocket science. I follow dev posts very well.

Lienn: Do you guys want to dive into the pool?
Clash: um. it doesn't have water.
Lienn: Don't worry. they will fill it up in the future.

[Lienn]

Very well. I'm not going to waste time arguing with such brilliant mind like yours!

Closing this before more trolling is posted. I can't understand why just anwering the questing asked was this hard.