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.