Pay for your inventory.

[Tsunenori]

This is a fair reason against the paid service. Then again, this comes from SE's FFXIV payment systems. The same system that has all my ways to pay my sub locked out save through Crysta. >>

And to be fair to them, I could pay my subscription through Crysta and hire retainers that way. I do however think that it's an unnecessary extra step to go purchase a separate card to redeem a virtual currency only usable through Square-Enix and that can't be transferred to any other payment system, where unused Crysta (unspent money) will rot away in my account unless I buy more of it. It's locking me into a secondary currency that shouldn't even be necessary in the first place.

But that's on me. I could fix my problem with Crysta, and maybe someday I'll get fed up enough and do it. I just don't think I should have to.

Edit: fixed redundancy.