So, why is the Zodiac Glass a common item...

[Yshnal]

... instead of a key item?

Seriously SE, you keep introducing new items just to clog our inventories, right? Meanwhile our key items tab is empty.

We've been telling you this since you started doing that with the atmas (where it was "somewhat" understandable, even if the no stacking makes no sense) and the beast tribe items, and you keep doing it on every patch where you introduce new items. Will you ever start using the key items inventory for these things?

You aren't even consistent, as some other like the animus books are, in fact, key items. Why do you do that?

[Kiara]

I agree Yshnal.

Great point. There's no reason why the Zodiac Glass couldn't have been a KEY ITEM (to not take Inventory Space).

It almost feels like they're doing it to indirectly make us buy Retainers (spend money) to get more Inventory Space.

[Velox]

It almost feels like they're doing it to indirectly make us buy Retainers (spend money) to get more Inventory Space.

Welcome to business marketing 101. First lesson, "Do whatever you can to get the customer to willingly spend more money." :P

[Razzle]

Hah, when people said in other threads that P2Retainer is ok because it's not a must have, I replied with "meet in a few expansions when we have double the jobs". Guess it's going to be much sooner than that. People just don't think forward, retainers may be ok... *now*... But it's just going to keep becoming more and more needed to play convinently as updates come and go.

[Yukiko]

I wonder...
You can "lose" the glass, so are we somehow "using" them wrong?
Only way to loose them is to throw away, but... well... you know?

[Roris]

Extra retainers only $2 a month, gets yours cheap cheap today wink wink nudge nudge.

[Yshnal]

Yeah, my suspicious side was thinking about the retainers too. In fact, when we were discussing about the introduction of the extra retainers, I was one of those that said that it would become worse in due time (and I still think that it stinks in many ways, but that's another topic).

I didn't want to mention it here because I honestly want to know why do they keep doing this with some items and not with others. Maybe (and just maybe) there's a weird but legit reason that I can't think of at the moment.

[Baneus]

Yeah, my suspicious side was thinking about the retainers too. In fact, when we were discussing about the introduction of the extra retainers, I was one of those that said that it would become worse in due time (and I still think that it stinks in many ways, but that's another topic).

I didn't want to mention it here because I honestly want to know why do they keep doing this with some items and not with others. Maybe (and just maybe) there's a weird but legit reason that I can't think of at the moment.

I think the legit reason is that they're incapable of learning. You'd think they'd have a couple of post-it notes on their monitors:
MAKE QUEST/RELIC ITEMS GO INTO KEY ITEMS CONTAINER

MAKE NEW SEASONAL ITEMS GO INTO ARMOIRE CONTAINER

[Amused]

This doesn't bother me nearly as much as random worthless (as in, sells for about vendor price or less on the market board) items that fall into our inventory every time we fight something, or when our retainers bring back junk. I'd be interested to know how much of my play time is actually spent trying to keep my inventory, and retainer inventories under control.

[reality_check]

Annnnd people will complain about anything.