Retainer UI update

[falph]

I was really happy to read that they updated the UI for retainers to be more responsive...until I logged in and tried it. I can't believe that they went through the trouble of doing a QoL pass on retainers and LEFT IN THE COMPLETELY POINTLESS "FLAVOR TEXT" for each retainer you call.

It adds two clicks to every single transaction and serves zero purpose. Has anyone grown fonder of their retainers because of the same repeated line they give you at the beginning and end of every transaction? THIS is what makes multiple retainers most clunky. I swear, sometimes I think that Japanese devs think they get paid by the number of clicks a user has to make when they design UI elements, lol.

TLDR: PLEASE REMOVE the flavor text for retainers or at least add the option to disable as it adds multiple needless clicks for every transaction and the only flavor is adds is irritation. xP

[ThunderTopaz]

how dare retainers have personalities!
but in all seriousness, I personally enjoy the little things like my retainers talking to me.
only fair since they bring me great stuff all the time

[Nixxe]

I don't care about the flavor text at all. You can just spam click through it. What bugs me about the update is that you have to actually check the retainer to see how much money it has, which makes that feature pretty much useless. I thought it was going to provide me with an easy way to check which retainers had sold stuff without having to remember how many items they had when I logged off. Storing money on retainers is utterly pointless unless you're server transferring.

[JWag12787]

I don't care about the flavor text at all. You can just spam click through it. What bugs me about the update is that you have to actually check the retainer to see how much money it has, which makes that feature pretty much useless. I thought it was going to provide me with an easy way to check which retainers had sold stuff without having to remember how many items they had when I logged off. Storing money on retainers is utterly pointless unless you're server transferring.

I'm pretty sure GIL is listed on the primary UI, so you don't need to click on the retainer to check that..?

[Nixxe]

I'm pretty sure GIL is listed on the primary UI, so you don't need to click on the retainer to check that..?

The value doesn't update until you interact with the retainer. If your retainer had 0 gil the last time you looked at it and sells 3 items, you'll still see 0 gil until you summon it again.

[JWag12787]

The value doesn't update until you interact with the retainer. If your retainer had 0 gil the last time you looked at it and sells 3 items, you'll still see 0 gil until you summon it again.

Shows how well I paid attention to that. Guess I just never noticed cause they aren't actively doing much atm XD

[falph]

but in all seriousness, I personally enjoy the little things like my retainers talking to me.

Fair enough, but why wouldn't they just have their greetings in a speech bubble over their head or put it in your chat box and not make us click through the same single sentence when you call them AND when they leave? It's especially obnoxious if you have several retainers. My main issue was the fact that they did a pass with the UI to make it "more responsive" by a fraction of a second but left the multiple text to click through for every retainer you call? It's like 1.0 1,000 polygon flowerpots level ponderous to me...

[Nanami_Naniwa]

But I... I... I like the flavor text. I chose my retainers acording to their flavor text. What is the point in giving them a personality but don't use them? Why did I went through the trouble to give my character a voice if she just screams unregularly in combat?... ah wait, that is another page.

[Niwashi]

I personally enjoy the little things like my retainers talking to me.

I like the personality it gives them, but it would do that just as well in an overhead speech bubble that we don't have to interact with.

What bugs me about the update is that you have to actually check the retainer to see how much money it has, which makes that feature pretty much useless.

This is the part that bugs me most. They went to the trouble of adding a gil display for each retainer, but without having it actually show how much gil the retainer has? Why? Once I interact with the retainer, I'm going to pick up whatever gil they have, so it's always going to show 0 once I dismiss them. Is it just as a reminder if you forgot to pick up the gil? Completely pointless.


Still, I am glad we at least don't have to re-select the bell between each one any more. It at least saved a little bit of frustration there.

[Elamys]

The gil not updating to me feels completely unintended. At least, I hope so. There's no reason for all except an extremely small amount of players to store gil on a retainer...I'm tired of having to summon retainers just to see what they may have sold.