More storage space is long overdue

[SingleMaltFan]

We're heading into a new expansion, and I quite simply don't have room for another expansion's worth of items. We are long overdue for an upgrade for our storage. We've still got the same 2 free retainers we had in ARR, and we're heading into the fourth expansion. The glamour dresser needs a massive increase in space, too.

I've heard all the counter-arguments. Square makes too much money on retainer rentals to give us any more free ones. Muh servers and their spaghetti code. You need to manage your inventory better. Blah blah blah.

I'd be a lot more inclined to maintain a sub to farm old content for glam if I had any room for it.

They're spending the resources for a stat squish (which I have serious doubts will go well), so how about spending some resources on something a large percentage of the player base really wants.

At the very least, give us a big storage shed on that island they're promising us. It will presumably be instanced, so should only affect the servers when we actually zone into the place.

[grimgamer09]

No it is not, the storage space you have is manageable. You just sound terrible at organising it!! Let me guess, you have ten Triple Triad cards sitting in your inventory, waiting for the day you're not too lazy to go turn them in for MGP..

[WhyAmIHere]

No it is not, the storage space you have is manageable. You just sound terrible at organising it!! Let me guess, you have ten Triple Triad cards sitting in your inventory, waiting for the day you're not too lazy to go turn them in for MGP..

"I dont feel like farming for these glamour pieces / dyes / materia / crafting mats / eureka bits / raid food / raid pots / crafting food / crafting medicine / gathering food / cordials, lemme just hang on to these iiiinnnnnn... oh, i'm out of space."

The saddlebag is the only non-paid for inventory increase that's happened AFAIK. Pointing out that SE is poor at optimizing their storage system for players and just keep pushing for people to pay for additional retainers ain't always "just get rid of the misc items you're hoarding."

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

"I dont feel like farming for these glamour pieces / dyes / materia / crafting mats / eureka bits / raid food / raid pots / crafting food / crafting medicine / gathering food / cordials, lemme just hang on to these iiiinnnnnn... oh, i'm out of space."

The saddlebag is the only non-paid for inventory increase that's happened AFAIK. Pointing out that SE is poor at optimizing their storage system for players and just keep pushing for people to pay for additional retainers ain't always "just get rid of the misc items you're hoarding."

We got an additional 40 inventory slots during 4.0 I believe.

[Coletergeist]

+1 to storage space.
Crafting with all the shid I need is hard to store, along with housing items, glams, this and that.
Pls.

[White_Wolf_X]

They could easy turn at least half of the "Key items & Crystals" slots into normal inventory.

[Packetdancer]

They could easy turn at least half of the "Key items & Crystals" slots into normal inventory.

Not to mention turning things like Extreme trial totems and such into currencies. Why should I need to keep all these memories of different types in my inventory when farming Bozjan relic weapons? Or Atma for Zodiac weapons, or Bozjan coins, or Manufactured/Puppet coins, or Emerald totems for the eventual mount (because the idea it can ever drop feels like a base and blatant lie), or whatever.

Yes, that's a non-zero amount of effort -- probably a lot larger than zero, at that -- compared to the current system of a far more limited number of currencies, but if you design an easily-extensible currency system, then so, so many reputation items and whatnot would be freed up.

Mind you, this is me speaking as a player. If I approach this from a developer perspective, the idea of reworking inventory that way makes me want to hide under my desk and cry. Sooooo I won't be surprised if such a reworking never happens.

(Alternatively, put the memories and totems in such into Key Items, if we aren't getting those inventory spaces for general inventory. That would likely take considerably less effort.)

[MilkieTea]

They could easy turn at least half of the "Key items & Crystals" slots into normal inventory.

Those slots aren't actually slots though, they're a visual representation of a "space". They exist in a similar limbo to the mount guide and minion guide - not actually spaces for extra items, just a visual representation OF the space set aside for those items. Kind of like a desk and a bookbag in school, the bookbag you can take with you and in this hypothetical situation, can fit a finite amount of stuff and a LOT of it, whereas the desk is just a space reserved for specific items and those items may only be seen a few times. It's not meant for much beyond those specific items.

[Rongway]

They could easy turn at least half of the "Key items & Crystals" slots into normal inventory.

There are no storage slots there. The Key Items inventory is exactly as large as it needs to be for the key items you are carrying at any given time. The visualization of it as a full inventory tab is only there for UI convenience.

[Themarvin]

Dont need more than what got, no matter how much space, would eventually run out of it and that would put people back to the origin of the 'fix' again... sell all the garbage off and keep only what you need.