3rd Retainer by Default, please?

[Faelandaea]

I'd rather have quality then freebies. The money they make off us goes to development. Frankly, the current path FFXIV is on, an upcoming expansion, new dungeons in the most recent patch (with BEAUTIFUL graphics by the way), other improvements such as the upcoming Golden Saucer, choco racing, games, etc . . . all of this is possible due to budget. So, no, leave the retainers where they are.

In the year or so I have been playing this game I have never had an inventory issue. If you pack-rat enough where you need to be featured on the show "Hoarders", then you have the option to purchase extra space to feed your pack-ratting habit.

[Nutz]

In the year or so I have been playing this game I have never had an inventory issue. If you pack-rat enough where you need to be featured on the show "Hoarders", then you have the option to purchase extra space to feed your pack-ratting habit.

I used to say things like that, and then I went and leveled all crafts and 2/3 of the gathering classes and discovered that there are just way too many items that a player might reasonably have at any time/ all times. Artisan gear has been very helpful, but I'm always low on space and with only 2-3 combat classes. This is also without keeping any stock of low level purchasable materials. Certainly you can get rid of things you don't need right now, but then you just create the headache of mass gathering/ buying when you want to craft something. There are hundreds of useful materials that one might use frequently to say nothing of the inventory mess that fishing can cause.

[Niwashi]

I'd rather have quality then freebies. The money they make off us goes to development.

Well, it's supposed to. But inventory has been one of this game's biggest issues since it came out (not to mention the issue that retainers directly pertain to). And so far, they've done nothing about it except to keep making it worse. I think it's about time the money they're making off us goes into actually helping our game work better. If they'd double the size of the Armoury Chest, add all the items to the Armoire that belong there, give us a tackle box, catalyst storage, and glamour storage, then sure, there could be some basis for charging for extra retainers. But as long as those extra retainers are just to make up for all the development they're refusing to do, saying it's to pay for development is a bit problematic.