...Inventory?

[Kukajoo]

we'll be lucky if square lets us even have 1 more free retainer
for now they want you to pay extra for more retainers per month on top of your sub

[Colt47]

we'll be lucky if square lets us even have 1 more free retainer
for now they want you to pay extra for more retainers per month on top of your sub

Yeah, I'm already paying for a single new retainer. It seems a bit like robbery given what other games offer in terms of inventory, and right now FFXIV actually encourages hording thanks to the multiple classes and vanity system.

[Juz10y0]

Yoshida: First and foremost we've heard this question asked multiple times around the world and we want to mention that in Final Fantasy XIV just the sheer volume of the character data and the number of items each character can hold is much greater than that of a typical MMO. The reason why we can’t increase the size of the armory chest quickly or easily relates to how often we rewrite the data into the servers in the back end. We rewrite the data every fifteen seconds so even if the server goes down you don’t experience a rollback. Of course with the sheer volume of the character data when you expand the armory chest the amount of load that goes into the rewriting and refreshing of the back end servers would increase and we’re trying to keep it as quick as possible. We currently have it at fifteen seconds but if we were to add more load to it then it may make it take longer to do that refresh and it may delay to thirty seconds, one minute, fifteen minutes. We don’t want to take away from the player experience. We don’t want things to slow down because we’re expanding the armory chest. We’re researching ways in which we can make that happen. We need more time to make that happen. We’re not saying it’s impossible but your patience would be appreciated as we try to figure out a way to optimize the process so that it won’t take away from the speed and affect playability or the player’s experience. We are trying to implement something that can be addressed quicker which is increasing the number of retainers. So in the mean time we if you are using things within the game fairly frequently you may want to utilize the expanded retainer capabilities.



Pax Interview: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/wiki/pax_2015_interview



I for one can't wait for more inventory space. But at least 12.99 + 2.00 = 14.99 price of a "Normal" sub, so i justify at least ONE retainer.

[Colt47]

Yeah, that's about as far as I'm willing to go with this pay extra for inventory system. The only option right now is finding some time to literally go through and liquidate 90% of my assets to make room for new gear, which is going to take a lot of time away from actually playing heavensward.

[Juz10y0]

Yeah, that's about as far as I'm willing to go with this pay extra for inventory system. The only option right now is finding some time to literally go through and liquidate 90% of my assets to make room for new gear, which is going to take a lot of time away from actually playing heavensward.

I think i spent about 1 hour or 2 hours resorting all my retainers and putting stuff into the Armoire etc etc. xD

[Colt47]

I think i spent about 1 hour or 2 hours resorting all my retainers and putting stuff into the Armoire etc etc. xD

Yeah, that's likely what is going to happen this coming weekend. I never like doing it, though, since I can't tell what I need to keep or not half the time. x x

[Saseal]

I think i spent about 1 hour or 2 hours resorting all my retainers and putting stuff into the Armoire etc etc. xD

Same here.... I have one retainer for leveling gear to be used and re-used/shared (level 1-49ish gear for all classes), Materia and some random dyes; one retainer for all level 50 stuff that I've accumulated from CT, Coils, level 50 Dungeon gear (much of which I've since turned in to the GC for seals that none of my classes would need to use once they hit 50. Don't need dem Darklight stuff anymore...), old AF gear, old ST sets, old Soldiery gear and soldiery/poetics pieces for later 50'd jobs for glamour (before they go away); bought a third a while back for random junk like housing stuff my retainers have looted and refuse to return to their owners, foods and crafting mats....

Bought another retainer last night just for the new Heavensward gear alone, for space. x_x Since I'm just grabbing anything I can use for MNK or plan to use soon (MCH/AST/DRK) after I'm done with MSQ and WHM and etc.

I've been leaving class-specific gear (PLD only, etc for example) behind for classes I probably won't level passed 30 (for cross skills) or 50 on my main character (such as BLM/DRG/PLD/WAR), threw old outdated gear (I still have Heroes gear o_o) at the GC and even then it's just.... I'm out of space in my retainers and my inv/armory x.x I'm a horrible, horrible horder and all of it is a "just in case". :|
I like to call it 'pre-preperation awareness'
Just in case I can use this later, just in case I decide to level this later, just in case I want to glam this, just in case this later no longer exists for glams....

[Kayote]

I for one can't wait for more inventory space. But at least 12.99 + 2.00 = 14.99 price of a "Normal" sub, so i justify at least ONE retainer.

You know when I read that interview I thought it was ... "odd" that he'd say that yet at the same time announce they were doubling the amount of extra retainers. I know its not as many people who would buy the extra retainers, much less the max amount ... but why make the problem worse? Something doesnt smell right.

As for the quoted part, thats what ive been trying to point out all this time. They can solve this entire mess easily by just letting us transfer items to alts in the same server. Theyd get paid more by more players, we'd pay more but still not more than a regular sub, we'd have more inventory space in a way thats common with other MMOs, and it'd be individual characters so the "saving to the server" thing wouldnt change at all. Its NOT that good of a anti-RMT system, they really need to get off that already. Again, something doesnt smell right.

Also, way to be inefficient SE. We want inventory, more importantly, retainer inventory. He makes it sound like they save the entirety of our character to the server every 15 seconds. If thats so then maybe they should ... you know... separate it!? Seeing as how we dont use our retainer inventory constantly it would cut down on the amount needed to be saved drastically. I dont see how something like this could be overlooked while they were designing the game.

[Cerick]

The retainer system is very cumbersome as is, resorting is very time consuming and moving stuff the the armoire is also time consuming. We need a revamp of the system to let you access your "bank" and have all of it together rather than on separate retainers.

Use any of the retainers to access your bank or sell items. Separating it all out is a terribly annoying click click click .. crap that's on my other retainer click click click arg it's on the next one :/

[Onikimaru]

Theyd get paid more by more players, we'd pay more but still not more than a regular

Please don't encourage anything of the sort. We just need more armory space and inventory space.