Lockboxes prove there is an inventory management problem with this game

[zuzu-bq]

A good solution to Lockboxes would be to make their trade for Gil on NPC decent because right now many players prefer to delete them than going through the hassle of opening them. But that would bring other issues because of their own loot table. It's like they cornered themselves.

[Nalfein]

No I am not. My thread got derailed because people want to white knight SE.

Your thread derailed because you always complain and bash people with walls of text that barely make sense.....but hey nice try reusing a title of an antique failure thread of yours to own a victory over the internet.

[LeoLupinos]

I think that if FFXIV is not Inventory management reference, then it lacks. Just because It's a paid and Subs + cash shop I expect that much.
Giving that it took 17 months to actually develop Eureka, did they never even think about how bad inventory could be? Even after developing such good systems as Diadem spoils? Something is very wrong.

[Seig345]

You are twisting what was said. I stated it is not an exaggeration on the FACT it took me 2 hours to move items across retainers for my SO (since people want to derail this and reference another thread they derailed)

It is also a fact it took this person 9 hours of the topic I linked here. None of what I say is an exaggeration, those are facts. No where was I linking that to what I feel is worthless or not, how did you get that message?

my main point is I do not state exaggerations with this issue, I just like it to be addressed. [...]

I never stated anything about an exaggeration.
My point is that it's a fact that despite having played FFXIV since 2.0 with relatively few breaks and having leveled all craft/gather jobs to level 40+ (at the same time, gathering my own mats the entire way) I've never spent 9 hours to fix up my inventory, and have never even felt the desire let alone need to purchase additional retainers. Therefore, now we have your 9 hours vs my 30-45 minutes tops that I've ever spent in one session of tidying up my inventory at any given time.

I'm not sure how switching the lockboxes to a currency would help with inventory space. They only take up 1 inventory slot unless you're hoarding them beyond 999, there's no lockout forcing you to wait until you have 5 stacks of 999 to use them, it didn't even take me 30 minutes to clear out over 400 of them in one sitting, and that was while I was half distracted with a conversation and running to the npc to sell off the items I didn't need.

Between my personal inventory, chocobo saddlebag, and the 2 free retainers, I have 560 slots, never had a full-to-bursting inventory issue. I'm also not sure what kind of Dewey Decimal system you would have to use to arrange inventory that it would take you 9 straight hours to rearrange anything in this game. I have currencies stored away that aren't even used in the game anymore; old ifrit tokens from 1.0, 1 of every single Yokai Watch medal (even one of the common ones for buying the minions, judge me if you will...), and currencies from Alexander and Omega, all on top of the glamour pieces, fishing lures, craft/gathering mats, etc that I've never had trouble finding when I need it, and I've still never spent even 1/10th of the time you say you and your SO have spent rearranging your SO's inventory.

Is there room for improvement? Sure, there always is with everything in life. I'm just saying your 9 hours of inventory management isn't indicative of the experience for everyone playing this game let alone the condition of the inventory system as a whole. But you continue to make it sure sound like it is.

[Solarra]

At present my character has 3 inventory slots taken up due to Eureka; I assume the new area will have different crystals which will mean at least one more slot taken up, unless I throw the ones from the present area away.

The lockboxes are not fun for me. It's a waste of time opening them. I'm one of the rare people who does use fireworks but I'd rather see a firework vendor in Kugane than get 6 different types of them from the lockboxes. The prisms I have no use for and I suspect nobody else does either and again we have 6(?) types of them.

A currency similar to Diadem spoils would have been so much better but I'd definitely vote for one that went in the currency tab.
Things are getting better but the crystals, lockboxes, totems, tokens from raids and fates, Diadem spoils (yes I still have some) etc. all chip away at our inventory space which is very limited compared to other games.

[MageBlack]

All that proves is they have a reward/incentive problem.



If you cant manage your inventory, thats on you. If someone hasnt organized their inventory since they started and then 70 levels later "find they are bogged down" then thats their own fault. Even crafters shouldnt have a problem with all the storage, unless they are trying to level all DoH and DoL jobs in tandum, then, again, that's a problem of their own making. I only leveled one DoL job and max 2 DoH jobs at one time.

To address the gear, they have added the glamor plates and increased the armory storage and still, manage your crap. At the worst, before Stormblood launched, I had both retainers completely full of gear, cause thats something i do hoard. But I solved my problem by actually going through it all and asking myself "why do i still have this hat/pants/chest? When was the last time i even used it for glamor? Where did i get it? If i decide i really want it again, i can do unsynced runs of X dungeon until it drops." If they have any problem its an item bloat problem. So much useless, pointless, crap that "cloggs" up your slots.

[Esp]

If the lockboxes are that much a problem (and from what I have seen from the OP, worthless) then...

Discard them? One less stress in your playtime gone.

/thread

[Vstarstruck]

If the lockboxes are that much a problem (and from what I have seen from the OP, worthless) then...

Discard them? One less stress in your playtime gone.

/thread

I know, it is still a flaw of the game though, it should be improved. You are reflecting there is a flaw when there is so much inventory bloat the only solution is to toss, and that is not fair I have to miss out on mount and such because of said flaws.

[MageBlack]

I know, it is still a flaw of the game though, it should be improved. You are reflecting there is a flaw when there is so much inventory bloat the only solution is to toss, and that is not fair I have to miss out on mount and such because of said flaws.

Because you have to throw them all away before you get the reward you want? do you just like to hear yourself complaining?

[LaylaTsarra]

Because you have to throw them all away before you get the reward you want? do you just like to hear yourself complaining?

The OP hated Eureka. It's laughable that he/she is spending so much time there they are having a problem with lockboxes.