3rd Retainer by Default, please?

[Saccharin]

It is weird to hear a lot about how this game is succesful and about it's nice comeback and then hear from developers atleast twice a month about server load/ capacity problems.

According to the minion/ mount websites, SE has sold loads of Sleipnirs, minions and I believe platinum eternal bondings too, got about 500K subscribers but.....

... we can't have more housing wards (when on every bigger server it was impossible to get small house after a few hours), more inventory space, customizable NPCs in housing (while retainers in housing aren't problem) and lots of other stuff.

Yup, I get that lots of income from this game go back to SE so they can put it into their other games which won't even make as much as FFXIV. But what SE needs to realize is that without investing more $$ to the game they won't make more out of it.

SE don't have server/capacity problems because they have been careful. If they aren't careful like they are now then there might be server/capacity problems. Rather than add new wards they need to look at a mechanism for removing inactive accounts property. Even if they state of it is snapshotted as it is. What's the point of having wards if 90% of it there are abandoned houses.

[Catwho]

. Rather than add new wards they need to look at a mechanism for removing inactive accounts property. Even if they state of it is snapshotted as it is. What's the point of having wards if 90% of it there are abandoned houses.

I have been wondering about this. I think at least three houses in our neighborhood are owned by dead/inactive FCs where nobody has logged in in months. Why are they still allowed to clog up our neighborhood? I would not be adverse to the house property itself being demolished, and the original sale price of the house reverted back to the FC bank (which will still exist) if no one from the FC has logged in for a period of six months. That way, those houses can go back on the market for people who want them WITHOUT having to build more market wards, and since the money is dumped in the FC bank, no hard feelings if one lone person logs in a year from now on a whim and discovers the house is gone.

[silentwindfr]

SE don't have server/capacity problems because they have been careful. If they aren't careful like they are now then there might be server/capacity problems. Rather than add new wards they need to look at a mechanism for removing inactive accounts property. Even if they state of it is snapshotted as it is. What's the point of having wards if 90% of it there are abandoned houses.

i will be blunt, FF14 is the first time i see a dev say they can't add a feature or need to reduce a feature....because of the server capacity! in the whole mmorpg industry is a first! if another mmorpg have a trouble of server capacity.... they upgrade it! i fail to understand why they need to be carefull that much, when the game is still growing and are (by them own word) a success.

they need to stop to be carefull and invest a bit in the game, i can't imagine the number of feature that was abandonned because of the server capacity!