Thread: 2.2 Retainers via Microtransactions

Originally Posted by Xellos2099

Extra mule and the mog sachel was essentially the same thing and no one complain about them; and back in xi, the space are much more valuable as well due to in battle equipment swap.

That is because the same thing could be done with the delivery box system. I had over 50 items in it I cycled through.

My 2 FULL retainers thank you SE! .99 cents comin your way!

This' freaking ridiculous. No freaking way is this okay.

Lol wut?

Yoshi's stance was that people shouldn't be able to get more things because they have a lot of time on their hands. But if that have a lot of money it's okay.

There only seems to be a handful who remembers retainer monthly fee structured back in 2010. This was never implemented because monthly fee service was suspended for FFXIV 1.0 till January 2012, and even then they didn't get everything in order yet. We weren't even suppose to have two retainers, only the first one was suppose to be free.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...yopemeopw.html

Retainers - As before, and until the release of Version 2.0, players will be entitled to employ two Retainers at no charge.
* The fee structure for after the release of FINAL FANTASY XIV Version 2.0 (including those of retainers) is unconfirmed at the time of writing.

I can't find a primary source, but I remember it was $1 USD for 1 retainer, which spans across all your characters on your account.
http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?foru...07785645538689

Also I remember, mentioned somewhere, the extra cost was mainly because of servicing the extra data which is accompanied by adding 1 additional retainer across all your characters. Though, I could be wrong on this.

What people should be surprised with instead, is the venture system that retainers will have come 2.2.
While little details are known, you can see that it requires some sort of in-game currency to pay the retainer to spend hours to obtain a negligible amount of raw resources.
This means the player having to do something in-game to earn that in-game currency to pay off the retainer so they can venture out to farm for you.
No where does it mention of paying real money to buy in-game gil, or another in-game currency so you can venture out.

I guess people don't really care that an NPC is playing a bit of the game for you, regardless if buy extra retainers or not.
But are more hung up on the fact that additional retainers cost extra on top of the basic monthly fee.

p2p is p2w since you have to pay to even play it's p2w because i can't even play without paying for it so if someone pays they can play all they want and i can't.

Originally Posted by Musashidon

p2p is p2w since you have to pay to even play it's p2w because i can't even play without paying for it so if someone pays they can play all they want and i can't.

LOL, so true. If you don't pay, you can't win in a P2P game.

They should add something like the gobbie bag quests from XI but instead for your retainer space and max items for sale.

If you can manage the 2 retainers you have just fine I don't see the issue.

This is an optional service if you want more than 2 of them. Something that was planned and even ready at launch of 1.0.

If you wanna be super cheap, make 7 alts on your server and abuse your FC chest.