Pay for your inventory.

[Ashgarth]

[2.0] Players can now hire up to eight retainers.
* Players are normally limited to two retainers per character. To hire additional retainers, please use the optional retainer service

So, after talking dozens of times in interviews and Q&A about inventory problems with all the new recipe materials, gear and jobs in 3.0 the solutions is...

You can pay more retainers.

So it's impossible to adds a few more spaces to the armoury chest or increase the retainer capacity but it seems that allowing us to basically pay twice as much per month is completely doable.

[Musashidon]

there is already enough room for everything.

if you want to keep more then you actually need then you will need to pay.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

there is already enough room for everything.

if you want to keep more then you actually need then you will need to pay.

Sorry but no, collecting in an RPG is a essential part of the experience and having to pay for inventory space just cause the devs can`t come up with a simple solution for inventory space...

And is as a simple armory with a "collections" menu where you can keep all diferent armor and weapon sets can be allocated without using inventory space. Simple, doable, damn, most RPG have something like this and works like a charm. Why XIV can`t?

[silentwindfr]

without defend them (because i find it bad too) the trouble come from the fact that all is server side i guess.... then, the server have way more data to manage.

[Airget]

It's honestly worded in an awkward manner, they should of just said "You can now purchase up to 6 additional retainers to a total of 8" then it would sound less confusing. But honestly the way it's phrased kinda sounded like they are adding the ability to have 8 retainers for free lol.

[Blissa]

I am not happy about that either. So they want $13~15 a month and then another $12 to get max inventory. That's a freaking joke!

[Hustensaft]

without defend them (because i find it bad too) the trouble come from the fact that all is server side i guess.... then, the server have way more data to manage.

Then they should've designed a system that is more manageable on the data side... A retainer alone equals a close to full character data thanks to appeareance and ventures.

There are various ways that are less storage intensive then retainers:
- Allow more (or better all) gear in Armoire.
- Craft Mat Tab - Save ItemID and Amount. (Look GW2)
- Higher Stack Size for Crafting Mats (WoW increased most crafting items from 99 to 250)

[OmegaFlare]

Being able to play all classes including all battle classes and all crafting classes on a single character is one of the best features this game has to offer until you realize that you have to pay extra in order to fully utilize them effectively. There's no possible way to manage the insane amount of items this game has with all the crafting gears and vanity gears across multiple classes.

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I am not happy about that either. So they want $13~15 a month and then another $12 to get max inventory. That's a freaking joke!

Unless they either reduce their individual cost or offer a "retainer bundle", because I'm not going to pay almost 30 dollars just to have some extra space in my inventory. No way, that's insane...!

[Omegakiyohime]

Before we burn anyone at the stake, let's keep in mind that the JP patch notes state that we get 3. Something has been mistranslated because that's what happens every time they release these things.