Why So Many Key Item Slots?

[Xieveral]

No thanks, I'm bad enough at inventory management without having to throw away something for an item used in a quest, the space is there because the item serves no purpose and would clog up inventory more than it currently is. I'd rather more items were considered key items tbh (zodiac items come to mind)

Okay? The community continue to suffer insufficient inventory space because other people are unorganized/have hoarding issues? It's on the individual to keep track of inventory. Additional space benefits everyone, hoarders can hoard more.

Key items disappear when the objective requiring them is complete, and ideally there would be a confirmation window and abandonment of the quest if you attempt to toss it. If you still manage to screw up with those kind of preventative measures, I don't know what to say.

[Lambdafish]

Okay? The community continue to suffer insufficient inventory space because other people are unorganized/have hoarding issues? It's on the individual to keep track of inventory. Additional space benefits everyone, hoarders can hoard more.

Key items disappear when the objective requiring them is complete, and ideally there would be a confirmation window and abandonment of the quest if you attempt to toss it. If you still manage to screw up with those kind of preventative measures, I don't know what to say.

It's a separate system for a reason, and for the record, I don't ever really have more than 10 key items at a time (CT gems, Ex primal items, that kind of thing), but I do craft, and Id rather keep hold of the key items than need to toss something for crafting and gathering. Surely your argument of hoarding is made moot by the fact that you are asking for more space, space which has been designed to separate items that serve 2 completely different purposes in game, and shouldn't be mixed.

You also seem to miss that key items don't hold much data, and could be stored a different way. its just a tick in the box that you have fulfilled the objective, which uses up a lot less data than gear stats, repair levels, material, and any other data associated with "real" items.