jpgames.de Gamescom 2015 interview with Naoki Yoshida

[Cheraa]

In XI you already are using 231 for gear, 300 armory chest and 100 inventory, 400 inventory slots.

If this is still true, WoW inventory spaces are :
120 total bank spots
147 Inventory spots

267 total. That alone doesn't even equate to how many slots we use in the armory chest for all our job gear.

WoW has way more Slots aviable in WoD:

128 Inventory Slots
223 bank slots
98 Gathering Bank slots (Only for Materials)
80 Transmog Bank slots (only for Weapons and Armor)

Thats a total of 529 spaces. And that for every Character you play to 100.

[Daralii]

WoW has way more Slots aviable in WoD:

128 Inventory Slots
223 bank slots
98 Gathering Bank slots (Only for Materials)
80 Transmog Bank slots (only for Weapons and Armor)

Thats a total of 529 spaces. And that for every Character you play to 100.

To be fair, the code they use for the backpack in WoW is a tangled mess that's at least as old as WC3. They have to have a ton of slots to compensate for a technical limitation; from what Yoshida's said in the past, 14's is a server limitation. That can, presumably, be overcome with sufficiently improved infrastructure.

[Moonleg]

WoW has way more Slots aviable in WoD:

128 Inventory Slots
223 bank slots
98 Gathering Bank slots (Only for Materials)
80 Transmog Bank slots (only for Weapons and Armor)

Thats a total of 529 spaces. And that for every Character you play to 100.

Yes, true - but you only have two professions to deal with on a given character; in FF14 we have eleven. Wait, Fishing is a free profession in WoW, isn't it? Okay, three against eleven.

That, and you only deal with two specs on a given character; in this game we deal with up to 24 specs on one character. It's not a straight comparison to make.