3rd/4th Retainer

[Quesse]

As a subscriber paying over $100 a year for this game, I expect a certain level of service to be offered.

Basic storage would be one of those items. I do not buy the argument that it is 'too hard' to offer more storage, included, in the game in any form. It cannot be true that the only possible way to have more storage is to buy more retainers.

It seems that since they've gotten hold of a nice extra source of income, they are loathe to let go of it.

This just really bothers me. We had 200 inv slots in 1.0 and more on retainers. FFXI steadily increased storage in a number of ways without issue.

What is the problem? This and lack of additional housing are among my top complaints. SE really has dropped the ball here, without any clear or intelligible explanation.

[Tisharu]

It's really annoying since I thought only F2P game have items issue which force you to buy more Inventory Slots, but FFXIV is even worst. Not to mention FFXIV have a one Character do all job and we have 12 Disciples of Warrior Job and 9 Crafting Job, and 2 Gather Job, that's 23 Class. You literally have to sacrifice all the glamoured drop in Dungeon of any kinds. Which basically sucks for people for want to Glamoured and that is like 90% of the people who Glamoured.


The excused "Data Limitation." is getting really old, when they know that is not the problem. Because why did they add Extra Retainer people can buy? They also blatantly refused to do any of the suggestion that suggest by the community when there were some really good one like the Catalog things. Their respond was "We will find more ways to manage your Inventory better by changing where you can access your Retainers." Really? SE that's not the point and the problem here.

I know they can do it, but Retainers and Fantasia Potion is their best selling items on the Mog Station AKA Cash Shop. This is why I hate Cash Shop. Someday, developer will get greedy and you are force to buy into it. I literally spend hundred of Dollars on F2P game per Month so this is why I switch to a P2P game.

[myahele]

Would have been nice if Heavensward came with at least 1 free retainer. Well,I am glad that from now on all special event items will be armoirable

[Kaelah]

As a crafter/gatherer I am really struggling with just the 2 free ones. I can't afford to buy more though. Keep having to sacrifice gear for other classes to make room. If I decide to level them again later they will all be naked. :3

I don't think an extra per expansion is asking too much. (But then I know nothing of memory etc issues.) At least give us 3. >-<

[ruskie]

I kinda expected one retainer with the expansion. Just to accomodate all the new glamour options(and I don't store every little thing). 2 would have been a lovely bonus. 0 is basically a slap in the face.

[Raist]

I dont entirely buy this. Yoshi P will say whatever is necessary to get the consumers to agree with his proposal. He just needed something to back up having us pay extra for it... same thing with the cash shop and using the "players asked for it' so we brought it in.

That discussion is frequently misrepresented. They weren't talking about server strain but networking issues.

Expanding our readily available inventory that continually refreshes in the background would dramatically ramp up the bandwidth demands. Not just locally either--that also increases the demand across the internet--which is already buckling under the existing strain in some regions as is. Just look at all the latency and packet loss threads. If you pay attention to what little bit of trace data users have submitted you will see there are points where data is getting choked along the way--not enough bandwidth available through those corridors to supply the current demand.

[Squrilruler]

As a hoarder, I am having issues with storage space. I would love a glamour catalog as I think that would resolve a lot of these issues. I am also disappointed that we didn't get a free retainer with 3.0, especially after there was hints that we would be getting on.

[AlphaFox]

The glamour catalog would be a great addition, I mean still force us to have the prism handy but just open a tab click the item and use the prism. If they really want to force us to run older dungeons as well let us assimilate the glamour to the book (destroy it in the process) but it stays in the book forever. Granted may drive the completionist nuts having to re-run all the dungeons again over and over just to get those pants to drop from normal Brayflox or so.

[BreathlessTao]

they just increased the amount of "retainers" you can rent

^ fixed that for you. In any case, they could just reduce the junk and clutter that gets added with each new patch, but it seems like that's not happening either. We've been being cornered into paying extra monthly for item storage that is pretty much essential for far too long imo. Personally, I think they've really pushed past the limit with the cash shop.

Expanding our readily available inventory that continually refreshes in the background would dramatically ramp up the bandwidth demands. Not just locally either--that also increases the demand across the internet

Here's an idea: DO SOMETHING WITH THE AFKERS. Hearing all the time about network strain, bandwidth issues, data sizes all the time - you'd think they disallowed something like that's obviously contributing to it. Yet, they don't.

[Beckett]

It's especially bad if you're involved in housing at all.

For event furnishings, there's no way to re-purchase them either from regular NPCs or even the Calamity Salvager, and there's no Armoire equivalent for furniture. If you want to hold onto those unique furnishings, you'd better have the space for it.

Even non-event furnishing is a pain. If I'm not using a piece but want to hold onto it, I either need to waste a precious storage slot on it, or destroy/NPC it and craft it from scratch the next time I want to use it.