Pay for your inventory.

[lokinmodar]

I'm happy to pay for extra storage , at the end of the day it's to keep servers clean of clutter.

RMT is no clutter then since they pay for their accounts ^^

[Pandan_1]

I made a petition to see just how many people care.
I don't expect it to go anywhere.

https://www.change.org/p/square-enix...t_created=true

[slml320]

sorry I'm lost at this sure ppl will pay for it but WHY??

it makes no sense that they can't give us extra space without the cost!!

is there no room to have this without a cost then why even offer it if there isn't and if there is why charge us?? HUH!!!

i own 4 fcs with alts and chests to put my mats etc but .. i can't even have alts i can mail stuff to to store stuff unless i have another account .. huge money grab..

on another note why do they keep giving us housing wards?? they have spat out blah blah that takes up soo much server space but they can't provide more retainers without a cost!! once again HUH!!

[nekuxdesu]

sorry I'm lost at this sure ppl will pay for it but WHY??

it makes no sense that they can't give us extra space without the cost!!

is there no room to have this without a cost then why even offer it if there isn't and if there is why charge us?? HUH!!!

well.. there actually is costs on their end

they gotta deal with people that cant even manage their inventories lol

[slml320]

well.. there actually is costs on their end

they gotta deal with people that cant even manage their inventories lol

i did edit my post but not to be rude but care to explain housing then ?? can't possibly take up more server space or cost than the housing districts yet we are charged for a service that a lot won't even use yet ppl are screaming for housing!! so all fairness why are they not charging for housing ??

[KarstenS]

To all the "we have so much inventory space": You should not forget, we have also much different stuff that we have to store in that space. Especially as crafter and gatherer. I've played some other games before and never saw a game, where you need so many different mats for crafting.

Next: If you pay or not. The storage on the server for the paid retainers is allocated for every character. Or how should it work that you don't loose you stuff on retainers you discontinued paying for?

[Talshara_Blade]

pay2win?! pay 2 win what? an extra pet or floss silk ? come on, retainers are just companions you can send to gather shit and store stuff for you and sell stuff for your, if you don't want to use them don't, if you want more , then pay. Some stupid people actually have extra accounts and pay the sub to store and move shit.... I'd rather put that money into retainers that belong to the only character I actually want to play.

[Mature]

On a game for which I pay $15 a month plus $40 for the expansion alone?

Sure, it's not like the server you play in its gonna pay by itself.

[Fendred]

Whatever reason they have for not expanding player inventory, it does NOT involve having too little storage. The only reason they'd have storage problems is if they did something inefficient like store character IDs as character strings and not thirty-two bit integers with a 2-3 character length identifier. They should already have an inventory table as a result of the relationship between players and items, and even if they were forced to put a new table into the database schema for the purpose of glamour items they'd need under a terabyte of additional space across all data centers because only a small fraction of the in-game items can be applied as glamour.

Lets say worse comes to worse and they need a new table. The table contains 4 attributes/columns which are the primary key attributes of both the item table and player table. The keys of each consist of a three character long string and a 32-bit integer. For the sake of argument, lets say there are 300 possible items that can be used as glamour, so there are at most 300 possible entries in the table per given players. Let's also assume there are four million accounts. They'd need at most 16.8 gigabytes of additional space distributed proportionally across all their data centers. We live in an era where one terabyte is the new standard for personal computers. For a major corporate datacenter, 16.8 gigabytes is laughably small.

[polyphonica]

Whatever reason they have for not expanding player inventory, it does NOT involve having too little storage.

It's not storage, but the issue they've pointed to is netcode bloat and the flushing of the data to disk, in addition to not wanting to risk upsetting server stability in this time when the servers will be under high strain. But obviously there will be ways to deal with all these issues. The retainer "solution" isn't really a solution, just the raising of an arbitrary cap as a stopgap measure (with money as a way to meter growth, since most people won't pay the premium).