Why I don't like the idea of paying for extra retainers.

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The key word here is planned. It never went live.

So any feature that was planned for 1.0 but never launched is automatically horrible? Guess we should be complaining about Ventures in the first place. And forget about Musketeer, it must mean the end of the game as we know it if they ever get around to implementing that!

I bet you also believed them when they said FC housing would be much more affordable too lol. This is FFXIV, not FFXI or 1.0 or any other game.

Housing is perfectly affordable as it is right now. Your expectations may not have been met, but if you have a small FC, a small house is perfectly fine and quite cheap.

This may not be 1.0, but the plans they had for content and features in 1.0 still carried over.