Pay for your inventory.

[Buff_Archer]

If all the extra bytes required to store additional data in retainers are so costly and valuable, how about we free up all the data the millions of RMT/gathering bots have tied up with their accounts? The minuscule amount of actual data storage you get from additional retainers, in relation to the price per byte of data, is essentially at the price per byte people had to pay in the 70's/80's when data storage methods were much less efficient than they were now. These days data is so cheap I could set up one free 5GB web based email account after another... so charging is a $50 a year for a few bites isn't something they do out of necessity to simply pass their costs on to the customer, they're charging it because they know people are constrained by the existing limits that are there and their only choices are to make undesired trade-offs (discarding things they'd like to keep- when is that a friendly position to put a customer in), or to pay the amount that's only reason for being set as it is, is because it's the most they think they can get away with charging. It's called price gouging. It's like when you go to the amusement park and have to pay $5 for a bottled water from a vending machine that costs $1.99 elsewhere. Sure, you don't have to buy that drink if you get thirsty, you can just be uncomfortable, and with the extra price you're paying for the 'convenience' lol but somehow the cost of that convenience goes way the hell up when there are no other viable options.