Thread: 2.2 Retainers via Microtransactions

Originally Posted by Phaydra

Actually Lotro sold a booster pack for shared bank storage before it went FTP. FFXI did too if you count paying the extra $1 a month for a mule character. FFXIV 1.0 did as well with the $1 a month per extra retainer.

Extra retainers was planned, but never came. First the payment service was delayed until january 2012. Then the dev thought they can just let it be with 2 free retainers until ARR because old XIV end soon anyway. The idea was that the retainers should replaces the mules that was known in XI (that also costs 1$/month).
But there was still the option to buy an extra character slot for 3$/month and use the retainer in an empty market ward to sell the items for 1 gil to yourself for item transfer between the characters.

Originally Posted by chococo

The point is, you pay for retainers to gather for you, whereas otherwise you would need to put the effort yourselves.

It's like I can walk a block and get home vs. I'll ride a taxi to go home.

The 2 free retainers can do this also. Where is the problem?
What give a paid extra retainer to you that a not payed extra character with 2 extra free retainers can't? Except a simpler way to transfer the items between them?

For me, I would buy 1 extra retainer. Not for venture, nor for selling stuff but for putting in all the gears I would find to save them up for glamour because most of them would be character bounded. Everything else I can hand out to the other retainers on my other characters like I do already with all the materias.