Quote Originally Posted by Khanscott View Post
Hmm, from what I can gather the people here are either stating that there is isn't enough inventory space in the game or you can omnicraft successfully and buy all the housing wards by only using an amount of slots you can count with your fingers. Pretty obvious that inventory has never been a server issue at any given point given how spending extra on retainers magically makes the server issue go away. Same crap, different hour of the same day.
But... it doesn't? I don't know why people always parrot this nonsense because it's not much of an argument. Charging for a services is a common way to limit how many people use it, which is an exceedingly useful tactic when your service can only provide for so many customers at a time.

Fewer players with extra retainers directly translates to less data transfer, which is one source of server stress. Considering how the servers have performed in the past, it's not too much of a stretch to assume the servers would display more issues if everyone received another extra retainer right now. Charging for the retainers is an immediate guarantee that most of your customers won't have extra and is a good way to relieve stress until you can figure out how to improve performance without outright refusing extra space.

It's common practice used by many a business that provides a limited service, but nah. In this case it's clearly SE reaching for some kind of shameless cash grab. SE isn't perfect, but it's tiresome to watch people eschew common sense day in and day out just because they want to be upset about something.