jpgames.de Gamescom 2015 interview with Naoki Yoshida

[SQBoard]

You know maybe... just maybe...

Yoshi didn't say EVERYTHING about the problems they're facing, just the ones that the team says he can say. MAYBE, that makes it hard for him to actually discuss solutions with us Network Experts.

You know. Just maybe.

Or maybe, just maybe...SE is trying to increase certain people's subscription fee by selling them up to 6 retainers in the cash shop.

Another poster does have a point.

SE keeps adding more items when they don't need to (or put those alex drops as key items instead) that keeps adding to the inventory space problems and yet the only thing they've done so far to alleviate the inventory issue is in patch 3.0 when they "allowed" people to buy up to 6 retainers for a recurring monthly fee.

And then there's this:

Yoshida: ...Although we won’t be able to expand inventory straight away, we want to make it more convenient to use retainers. So you can e.g. access all retainers in certain areas, rather than one by one.

That sounds like it would really help those people who bought those 6 extra retainers.

As for housing, when i see examples of housing systems in other games such as Wildstar's housing, i look at XIV's housing system and i think now that ARR is at 3.0 that a Housing 2.0 needs to happen.

[Krokov]

As for housing, when i see examples of housing systems in other games such as Wildstar's housing, i look at XIV's housing system and i think now that ARR is at 3.0 that a Housing 2.0 needs to happen.

WoW's Garrison & FFXI housing It's better than XIV.

[Daralii]

WoW's Garrison & FFXI housing It's better than XIV.

I... disagree on garrisons, to put it mildly.

[Mindylou]

WoW's Garrison & FFXI housing It's better than XIV.

Rift dimensions has them all beat 1000 fold.

[raelgun]

Rift dimensions has them all beat 1000 fold.

And how many players did RIFT have during its sub model again?
Just giving you a hint, it went free to play for a reason.

[Colorful]

And how many players did RIFT have during its sub model again?
Just giving you a hint, it went free to play for a reason.

What does that have to do with its housing system?

[raelgun]

What does that have to do with its housing system?

Less people playing means you can let each person have a bigger slice of the current server capacity, its simple maths

[Colorful]

Less people playing means you can let each person have a bigger slice of the current server capacity, its simple maths

Less people playing means less profit, which means less server capacity as you put it. "It's simple maths".

Edit: Reading up on the Rift's housing system now, you can have two dimensions for free, and I'm assuming these spaces are much more massive than Manors in FFXIV. On top of that, you can own an extra 18 dimensions by either paying, or through in game gold. This is per character by the way.