Veteran Reward: Third retainer

[Amiaze]

A friend shared this with me a while back, so I thought I'd post it here.


Here's the Google Doc I originally saw the information, and here's a link to the other infographics.

With this in mind, it means that FFXIV has a total of 750 inventory slots. WoW has less than 500, GW2 and Rift have less than 600, and Wildstar has less than 200.

That being said, I have not played those other MMOs, and I'm not sure how their drops function. The problem with our current system is, in my opinion, not the amount of inventory space we have. It's the way our inventory is used. We have an in-depth crafting system that often requires us to create two or three items so that we can create an item that we need to create the item we want. We're building up tiers.

So, for example, so the item you want to make only requires three materials. Well, the secondary materials you need to create those three each require three other materials. Unfortunately, the tertiary materials you need to create those three materials are three each.

That's 13 slots needed to create just one Primary Material (with three Secondary Materials required, and each Secondary Material needing three Tertiary Materials). Multiply that by three and then require a slot for the item you want, and you'd need at least 40 slots to create a single desired item. And that's just assuming that each material is going by 3 items -- some go by two, others four, and others five.

Of course, you could always just discard/purchase the items as required, but once you hit endgame crafting, not all of those items are easy to come by. And certain basic materials always remain necessary no matter what level you are, so you'll always want them on hand.

EDIT: Sorry, the image text is far too small to see, so the link will need to be followed.

[Caesaries_Incendere]

I think an extra retainer as a reward would be brilliant, it would solve a lot of my problems!

[Karlek]

SE's interpretation: "We need to take away all the free retainers and reduce inventory space by 50 slots."

Basically, there is no reason why they would want to shoot themselves in the foot by cutting back their profits. There is a reason why there are a crap ton of necessary items in this game but only a limited amount of storage. They know that people will have to pay a monthly fee for extra storage.

[Ranzan]

I know numerous people with 8-EIGHT-HACHI retainers atm. If I was SE I laugh at the idea and wouldn't do that if people are payin more on storage than their own subscription.

[Warlyx]

others games dont:

have "glamours" like in FFXIV (is stupid that we still need to use ranks in glamour), they have wardrobes that already know what gear u have unlocked.

u dont have 1 character for every classs...forcing u to have lots of armor , weapons...on 1 character.

the mats to create something are like 5-6 ingredients sometimes......in other games u need 2-3 materials....and since here u can level all the crafts....
(Gw2 inventory for crafting is awesome)

in the end this game is still 5 years behind in lots of QoL changes.... starting with glamour and crafting.

[Immut]

I know numerous people with 8-EIGHT-HACHI retainers atm. If I was SE I laugh at the idea and wouldn't do that if people are payin more on storage than their own subscription.

Yep that's me.

[StrejdaTom]

This would be my second favorite reward right after mounts.

[Xanikk999]

Square Enix wouldn't do that as long as they can easily get money by making us buy it.