Retainers/inventory space

[BlatantPyre]

To BigTough's last post:

Though I agree with you that Sho86 saying "2 retainers works" is not only not true but counterproductive, his point in stating that it's not likely they'll change anything in regards to this because people are paying for the retainers is sadly accurate. Now, if SE proves me - us - wrong, that would be awesome. I would love for them to acknowledge that there's an issue here and help us out without us having to boycott the current pay-to-store system that's being used. I guess we'll have to wait to find out, because YOUR point in stating the fact that getting people to change and stop paying isn't going to happen is also, sadly, accurate.

[BigTough]

Yes, I agree. I figure it's easier to get someone to start something than to stop something, in this case, by dropping a line to let SE know that you, as a player would like to see extra retainers in the game for free. They've been collecting money long enough to have a leg to stand on and we should have at least one or two by now.

[DukeGr]

This game doesnt need more inventory/storage space, it has plenty. What it needs is clever systems that unclutter available storage and make item management not a logistical nightmare.

-Glamour Database - This way you can dump all those useless items you keep just for future glamour purposes.
-Crafting Database - Make all crafting mats go to a seperate tab, much like the crystals go. This alone will solve all storage problems.
-Utilize Key Items More - Like maybe put there stuff needed for quests, it baffles me the anima weapon items are treated like normal items, or that upgrade item you get from Void Ark etc.
-Sell All Junk System - Make it possible to designate any item you want as junk and have it sell all automatically when you go to a vendor. For example Bat Wings, Animal Bones etc.

These i made up in about 5 minutes, im sure Square-Enix can solve this issue if they want to, but maybe they dont want to lose profits from retainers. In any case, they need to fix this sooner than later or real problems will start appearing come 4.0.

[BigTough]

[QUOTE=DukeGr;3528213]This game doesnt need more inventory/storage space, it has plenty. What it needs is clever systems that unclutter available storage and make item management not a logistical nightmare.


It's bascially asking for the same thing though, just a different system, this is actually asking for even more than what I'm asking for.. Buut they probably should have went down this path a long time ago, I like your ideas.

[Solarra]

Just adding my support to the call for an extra retainer, ideally starting now and continuing with one extra every expansion.
Alternatively, I'd like them to overhaul storage completely and put a new system in place for things like currencies, glamour and mats.
I don't pay for extra at the moment because I feel my sub should cover the basics but it's a struggle.

[BlatantPyre]

Niwashi...you da man.

To add to his post's merit, as I've said I have been using the retainers of alts I have to store items for one character, using the fc chest to trade back and forth (tedious beyond sanity). I craft (all classes), I use novelty gear and have multiple gear-sets for that purpose (on top of normal gear-sets for all of my jobs and the 11 DoL/DoH classes), and yes, I fish. Extensively. Oh, and I garden...theres a lot o' seeds...not to mention the multiple beast tribe currencies. I've barely gotten into original end-game with this character...

Six of my ten retainers are full, and I will have to move on to a seventh soon. I too have not yet gotten into HW, by the way...

As has been stated, it's clear SE intended for people to use as many jobs/classes as possible (any crafter knows that having all classes exponentially increases your ability to craft due to crossover abilities, any individual class will have a hard time crafting well at all). SE is obviously limiting the base game to get people into paying beyond base subscription, which is not cool by any means.

I understand there's a lot of speed players who don't see any of this (though they tend to miss huge portions of the game anyway), but if SE intended for us to skip most of the content in their game...well, that would just be ridiculous.

Intangible storage systems are really starting to grow on me, and there is no excuse not to implement them. I'd take an additional free retainer per expansion as well...but something's got to give.

[CrystalRainbow]

Truth: Extra inventory space would be free if no one paid for it!

Also all the reasons why they say they can't give more inventory space are mostly LIEs

We can't give everyone a 3rd retainer it would break the server. Yet if every use Paid for retainer they would make it work. MAJIC!

They can't have a system in place where 80% of player base all of a sudden paid for 6 retainers and the rest where like oh sorry you can't have one. Our Retainer DB is capped.


It's purely a money Grab. My 2 retainers are almost always full. But then I sell a bunch of crafting items and I have a lot of space. Then I go to craft buy the stuff off the Markets for cheaper then I sold the raw items for and in the long run I've saved gil.


MMOs hoarders loss in the long run...

[BigTough]

Truth: Extra inventory space would be free if no one paid for it!

Good luck getting everyone on that bandwagon.

[FoxyAreku]

Maybe it has to do with how I don't play every job, just Scholar, AST, Machinist, and summoner (though I do have everything else sans paladin and ninja at 50 I've not touched them since heavensward), but I just don't see the need for that much space. I'm sorry.

I can't help but think people just hoard mats they don't need to for most of it.

[Solarra]

In theory, we should be able to play every class on a single character.
If you don't have a problem with storage because you are only interested in playing a few classes that's great, for you.
Maybe spare a thought for those of us who would like to play most or all and glamour some of our gear as well.