Quote Originally Posted by Snow_Princess View Post
No, that means they need to do what they said, make a new method of storing items. It is no choice now after saying that. This means getting rid of item management from retainers completely, have players put stuff on the MB themselves, and give us an item bank. That is how you alleviate server stress.
The retainers are just a UI so don't really need to go anywhere. The problem is the underlying implementation that passes all of this information around in structures as opposed to database keys that could be referenced only when needed for processing. I also suspect from the various SE statements I've read that all of it is processed on the server side when to be honest some would be better off if it was passed to the client to handle. None of this is insurmountable to resolve just boils down to SE deciding it is in their best interest to do so.