Lockboxes prove there is an inventory management problem with this game

[Vstarstruck]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...oxes_and_some/

I feel the other thread I made is a lost cause so I thought I try to explain matters in a different way.

This game lacks inventory space in the sense the game overbloats us with items. Every patch it is always something to make it worse. eureka is moving to its 4th week and it puts too much strain though lockboxes. Why does the game give us so many lockboxes to deal with? it is too many items. I do not even bother turning them in because of the overbloat of items compared to our tiny inventory space.

All they needed to do was make eureka stuff into a currency tab, lockboxes should be in currency in currency tab, the 2 types of crystals should be put in inventory tab.

No they pick the most inventory bloat methods possible for reasons?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

A simple solution is to scrap lockboxes entirely and port over the spoils system from Diadem. That was one of the very few things Diadem did well. Collect x amount of spoils, trade them in for items you actually wanted.

[Mahrze]

A simple solution is to scrap lockboxes entirely and port over the spoils system from Diadem. That was one of the very few things Diadem did well. Collect x amount of spoils, trade them in for items you actually wanted.

This was the first thing that came to my mind after a few days, specially since how there's people who want/(ed) minions and mounts. This would have easily avoided the need to make most of the (now tradable) untradable items, available for trade due to inv space and what-not.

They really need a way to have comprehensive feedback venue. Every other thing has a currency behind it, and they have even retroactively done so for things like 2.0 beast tribes, why they didn't think: "Oh, instead of loot boxes which we know they didn't like from PotD after a while, let us use currency tokens" is beyond me.

[Kazgrel]

A simple solution is to scrap lockboxes entirely and port over the spoils system from Diadem. That was one of the very few things Diadem did well. Collect x amount of spoils, trade them in for items you actually wanted.

Too bad all they likely ever heard was “DIADEM SUX REEEEEEE”, so that got taken as an absolute.

[Laerad3993]

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Just be glad the crystals and boxes stack to 999 now. It could be a whole lot worse. I understand the frustration of them causing inventory bloat thoigh, I have over 12k of them, and I’m considering using one of my retainers to store them.

[Vstarstruck]

Just be glad the crystals and boxes stack to 999 now. It could be a whole lot worse. I understand the frustration of them causing inventory bloat thoigh, I have over 12k of them, and I’m considering using one of my retainers to store them.

I do not care. You can make anything seem good by saying it can be worse because y reason.

A simple solution is to scrap lockboxes entirely and port over the spoils system from Diadem. That was one of the very few things Diadem did well. Collect x amount of spoils, trade them in for items you actually wanted.

that's what i mean by it should just be a currency, be better if it was put in the currency tab as a currency, not inventory item

As for the lockboxes themselves, the question is: Was this massive lockbox acquisition, consequence of the NM train, really intended from a dev. standpoint? They had to tweak the crystal convertion rate options for a reason. They probably didn't expect this to happen.

It is a mess regardless, esp when you have people saying they opened 1k+ and not found a mount or whatever. This place was clearly released unfinished and with the delays I sit here asking how and why. My issue with them releasing new content in general is that they do not consider inventory issues and blindly add to the problem

[Seig345]

Perhaps you should specify which demographic of players are suffering from the strain from the lockboxes.

Personally, the only complaint I had while opening over 400 of them was that I couldn't open like, 10 at a time as long as I had 10 inventory slots open or something like that. I can't say I feel restricted by the amount of inventory space available to me.

I'm not saying there isn't an issue, per se, but unless I'm the odd-one-out of a sea of people who are walking around with mostly full inventories and retainers, then specifying who this is a burden to might help your argument if you feel the need to open a new topic rephrasing the same issue.

[Edit from later in thread]

You do realize that is not a big deal yes? It is obvious you will not have inventory problems when you do not craft and gather a lot? It does not take much to be 40+, for both inventory space for the materials to get there, and the time it takes. You an get 1-50 in a few hours spending leves, it is not a big deal.

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So no one can really understand the problem unless they have all craft/gather jobs maxed out to level cap AND have 1000+ lockboxes saved up.

Got it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If you turn them in as you get them it's less of a problem. I took about 1 and a half hours to get through 2100 of them, it wasn't too bad.

[RiyahArp]

You don't even need spoils. Just have the barding and mount be achievement rewards, and the anemos and sharalayn stuff be crafted. Everything else is just junk.

[mandodo69]

You don't even need spoils. Just have the barding and mount be achievement rewards, and the anemos and sharalayn stuff be crafted. Everything else is just junk.

Not true, so far I have made 20 million gil off the materia alone. When a stack of 6 savage aim/might materia, grade VI, sell for 350k+ per stack(6 in a stack) and I have 20 stacks to sell, per retainer, thats a ton of gil. Maybe my rng was good? But, I can make a million a day off the materia alone. I just sell the gear, mount, barding and sparklers/prisms. I sell the minions on the mb too.