3rd Retainer by Default, please?

[Nalien]

You said it yourself. the limitation is player time. that is the point I have been making. optional retainers are only as useful as the time the player puts into them, they are not automatic gil dispensers.

Two extra Retainers does not take up a great deal of player time, in fact the extra Venture cost is almost completely negligible depending on what you do in game.

I needed extra space so I had to fork over for additional Retainers, and I have not changed my play style in the slightest, if anything I've gotten lazier (not so much Duty Roulette) and the extra cost of four more Ventures a day still hasn't affected me in the slightest. It is a completely negligible extra cost to my time, but the benefits? Well, right off the bat an additional 10+ Allagan Pieces a day which is just outright Gil, then there's the minions. Doubled my chances of those, what are they worth on your server? I made 1m off a Retainer I payed real money for the other day.

The only time investment with Retainer Ventures is leveling the damn things up, everything outside that is absolutely trivial. Leveling them is an investment everyone has to pay though, except those who buy two additional ones get double the reward from. The fact that people who hardly play the game aren't going to benefit from them is utterly inconsequential. Bottom line is anyone with two extra Retainers has potential to make extra Gil those without simply cannot. Like I said, I made an additional 1m someone who didn't buy extra Retainers simply would not. Two people playing exactly the same, both sending Retainers off on Ventures daily, but one with two extra. The player with two extra is always going to benefit more than the other. That's a simple fact.

Some people being unable to get Ventures/gear them is utterly meaningless. Compared to anyone playing the game in a similar way to me, I have a payed advantage in those two extra Retainers.