Lockboxes prove there is an inventory management problem with this game

[Lilseph]

I personally don't think the inventory space gets THAT bad on every patch like you say, to the point of making a huge deal about it. It's obviously an issue, but let's not exaggerate. They are obviously struggling to keep it up, because of their server limitations™, but I would like to believe that they could afford an extra retainer at the very least. They are also working with their legacy code as far as I remember, trying to patch whatever they can. They actually moved a lot of currency to the currency tab. They made it so you could stack 999 of a single item. They created this Chocobo saddlebag to store additional items. They created the glamour wardrobe as well, which is still on its early stages, with a lot of room for improvement. They KNOW this is an issue and they are working on it.

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.