Why does the new inventory UI show less items on Expanded than before?

[LunaP]

I don't understand why they felt the need to completely remove the expanded and swap it out, they could have simply left the option and granted the option of 2 tables vs 4. Please bring this back, its really annoying to deal with especially when moving things around.

[Musai]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. I have my inventory ordered in a particular way and I spent the first hour and a half I was on after launch going through my inventory and retainers.

Additionally, I had to manually merge all multiple stacks together across all of my retainers and inventory. So that didn't help matters any.

And then when I finally finished and gave up on even dealing with the glamour dresser, for now, I ran off to do Ananta Beast Tribe quests to find the servers would be shutting down again within 10 minutes. And 2 hours later when I logged on again, NPCs were invisible everywhere I went even after 3-5 minute loading screens. And I don't have a poor system nor poor internet. It was fine before the emergency maintenance. I finally gave up and logged off for the day.

It was a very frustrating morning.

But it isn't the end of the world even if I don't like it. Maybe they will listen to the feedback. One can only hope.

[Crimsonwolf]

The new inventory layout is complete garbage that nobody asked for. Do the devs actually talk to people that play the game on a day to day basis before making crazy decisions like this?

Revert the inventory back to how it was or give us a complete unified single pane inventory.

[LunaP]

I don't think they actually "think" about the decisions, just " hey someone mentioned this, lets change everything vs adding an option" its like maintaining the bare minimum. Don't get me started on housing or the wardrobe system lol...

I feel really bad for the people w/ the new music stuff that lost all their notes too.

I used to think that only TW/CN development companies had these issues, its sad to see it being adopted in SE.

[Mhaeric]

Revert the inventory back to how it was or give us a complete unified single pane inventory.

Neither of these solutions are what I want. The way it was before is less slots, so I'm happy with the number we have now. A unified single pane would get rid of the automatic category sorting that is possible now. I.e. gear goes in the first pane, consumables in the second, etc. Unless they keep that separation in a unified pane then I'm okay, but I like having the visual separation.

That said, yes please to all 4 panes visible at once. And I agree with people asking why the heck are there 105 slots for quest inventory? I have a hard time filling up two lines let alone 3 panes.

Edit: Oh, and while we're at it... I'd like the ability to have the Chocobo Saddlebags window attached to the main inventory window so they open together. I can see how that might not be possible since you can't have both open in some cases like instances, but it'd be nice to have nonetheless.

[DaffyRoth]

Just thought I would post in here in hopes of SE seeing the feedback that the new Inventory Expanded UI is terrible. Can we have an option for the old one back? Please?

[TaleraRistain]

Yes, this sucks! Why wasn't this mentioned as going in as a change? And who the hell did they talk to who thought this was even remotely a good idea????

[Keliae]

I actually logged into the forums for the first time ever solely to add my support to this thread. This change is absolutely horrible. I was so excited to log in this morning, combine all my material stacks (with all crafters and gatherers at 70 I keep a LOT of materials and was super stoked for the 999 stacks), and ogle my pretty, crazy organized multiple retainers.

All I did was get ticked off. My super anal organized retainers were a MESS of confusion and I still haven't been able to touch them because it just gets under my skin. I haven't even touched the new saddlebags that I was excited for because I can't get motivated to look at the rest of my inventory to decide what I want to keep there.

Added to the OCD part of my organization, now I have to click between a third freaking tab on every single retainer. Yay for more carpal tunnel flare ups just to do one of the most basic things in an MMO.

[Elamys]

Please give us back the 4 panel layout. This new one is awful. there's already an obscene amount of clicking in the game, I shouldn't have to do even more for one of the most common actions in the game (inventory management). I want to be able to see what I have at a single glance.

And yes, the amount of key item storage you've given us is ridiculous and unncessary. I think I've carried a MAX of 30 key items at a time and that's when I had a full quest log.

[Kalinas]

I was all about getting more items on my screen. I mean quicker searching for stuff, less clicks, more win. I thought we were getting four 5x7 panels on one tab. Instead we got robbed of a real expanded display mode.

Reducing the total number of slots on one tab was a terrible move. It looks bad and feels worse. Why do we have 3 panels of Key items btw? None of this makes sense...grabbing my broom in a minute and declaring shenanigans.