helped my SO with sorting inventory today. FFIV needs better inventory management

[Vstarstruck]

Now first off I do agree my SO needs better inventory management on their end. However I found out by experience SE needs to do more work on their end as well.

Number of items vs number of space
We need a better ratio here. This means add more space or start removing items. There is a lot of repetitive items, currency in inventory that does not need to be there.

I spent 2 hours straight after my SO claimed they where working on it as I slept (personally I did not see much but whatever, maybe it was a bigger mess before I got to see it) I spent SO MUCH time, trying to open like 6 different retainers and move all currency type items to one retainer.

There is no reason what so ever this should take that long. It reflects a major flaw in the game, and biggest here is, stop putting currency in our inventory slots. It was madding, I had to open 3 different retainers just to stack cracked clusters, relic currencies and other crap it was overwhelming.

recycled icons
This was driving me NUTS I couldn't tell what was what like 5 different items using the salt icon. I found rock salt and tossed it right then in there, it was so madding. Hours after, as I write this I began thinking. Why are current synths even USE materials 1-5 gil items sold by npcs? It is crazy, how much space, item wise 1 thing takes to make

SE can easily change how many item these synths take. In my view when you have like .. idk.. 100 unique items only having 10 different icons, that should tell you RIGHT THERE, there is too many items in this game.

Me personally I have 1600 lockbocks from diadem 3.0 ii.. i.. I just can't.. dealing with that inventory bloat would dive me nuts. IF SE is really trying to make an effort to better our inventory situation they could of made lockboxes a currency. Did they ever thought of this? Why in the heck do we have lockbox rain when they KNOW this game has inventory space problems? (I/e 999 update/ Chobobo bag)

Now for the retainers.. as far as I know most games have a bank where I can just open different tabs and easily move items across one to the next? Why couldn't I move items from retainer 3 to retainer 1 directly? The inventory management of this game is really poor, hasn't people complained about this before? Why is it still a problem given this is the 3rd expansion? You think by now these different currencies be in a currency tab at lest?

The thing is even after my 2 hours of sorting and showing what to get rid of, it is STILL NOT done. My SO worked on sorting inventory here and there across several days. There is simply too much time wasted trying to play this game because poor inventory management tools, too much items in general, and not enough space.

I can't believe they renewed for 6 more moths with overpaying for these retainers UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ps retainers cost too much money)