We're suffocating on inventory space - how much of a priority is it to fix it?

[Avidria]

Oh really? Well, how about we talk about just that.

In WoW, you can get a nice tidy 110 inventory spaces if you go crazy with the bags and have gold coming out of your ears. This game offers you 750 inventory slots without paying a single dime! Skeptical? Let's look at the facts, shall we?

You start with 100 standard inventory slots by default. You have, by extension, 300 inventory slots for your armory. That's 400 slots already. Now, retainers offer a tidy sum of 175 slots each. You can have two retainers without paying extra. That's 350 inventory slots. Now, who here can do elementary math? Three hundred and fifty plus four hundred. You at the front, yes you. That's right. 750 inventory slots! Have a piece of candy.

That's before I even mention buying even a single extra retainer. Oh, and for obvious reasons I'm not counting the soul crystals or key items either. Do you see why I said that they're extremely generous already? I challenge you to name even one game which comes close to that. It doesn't exist anywhere.

Now, as I mentioned in the post that both of you quoted, that doesn't mean I don't have inventory troubles. I'm a crafter, so I'm always going to have inventory troubles. However, the REASON we have trouble is because we're hoarders by nature. Go on, you're free to admit it, we're all big girls and boys here. No one is judging you, least of all me. Heck, I'll freely admit I'm one of the worst hoarders of them all, because I just never know when I'll need that red landtrap leaf, or that rock salt for a quick synthesis.

Would more inventory be nice? Hell yes. Am I going to say we're, quote, "suffocating on inventory space"? Hell no. It helps to at least have some sense of perspective here. We have these troubles because we hoard, and we hoard because we can. More inventory space wouldn't solve that issue, it would just give us more chances to hoard. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's food for thought at least.

All I'm asking is for people to think before they post, instead of playing the victim. If this was a blame game, I'd be the first on the rack.

The current max bag size in WoW is 30 slots. You can have 4 on your person and 7 in your bank, which adds up to 330 slots, plus the 44 from the default bank and inventory slots that can't be changed - so 374 on one character.

But you can have 11 characters per server, so if you really go nuts and primarily play one character that's a max of 4114 slots total at no additional cash cost. Yes, those bags are absurdly expensive in gold and materials, but that's not my point - my point is that they are available in game, not in the cash shop. You can also freely mail gold and items between alts. I had 5-6 characters that I played actively and 5 or so more that I played on and off, plus 3 or so that were almost exclusively used for storage. I had their inventories, banks, guild banks (I had 2 of my own guilds), and mailboxes at my disposal. Each character also has access to 80 more slots through void storage.

Granted the original, base inventory space for WoW is kind of terrible - 16 slots of inventory space is next to useless if you play for any length of time. But they gave a way to get more, and they kept adding more as the game aged.

And I have no qualms with admitting that I am a hoarder in games. I collect things. My druid in WoW, who I played for ~10 years, has a completely full bank, full void storage, and a mostly full inventory...full of items and gear sets and random stuff, a fair amount of which doesn't exist or isn't available anymore. But that's beside the point, too.

My issue is primarily with the fact that you need to spend cash to get more space in this game. There are dozens of solutions available, but that's all we have right now.