Quote Originally Posted by Nayto View Post
Yet despite this, people are still buying two star crafts and materia.

Lazy people will be lazy. Retainers will take time to gather mats, and it takes a good 2-3 stacks worth of mats to AFK SB a crafting set. I'm pretty sure people with the "I don't have time to wait for your sh*t" mentality will still buy mats. The only thing that'll maybe go down is Apkullu eggs.
This.
On a side note, I'm pretty sure that while retainers will be away (and maybe won't be able to be recalled) we won't be able to sell stuff on the market, maybe we won't even be able to access our retainer's inventory. This would mean we wouldn't just be able to send them away on a whim.