It's 2023, you'd think they'd have a temp inventory screen by now...

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

You mean one of these things... One of these things that are already in the game is to let you know how clogged or full your inventory is.

The Game Visually Shows you that when you do something: Defeat an enemy, open a box, etc, that you pick up an item.
And this UI element is there to show you your Inventory space. It is now Your Responsibility to manage and organize and clean out your Inventory.
The game even still does you the service of playing a sound effect and Text in the middle of your screen when you are running low on space, down to the last 5 or 3 slots
Could it be improved?...well yeah, anything you can think of in life could be improved. But, The game has supplied you with the tools to succeed, and somehow its not good enough.

I just cant even....

[hynaku]

I'm waiting for them to add account wide inventory storage. Then you could use alts to store items and not need 10 retainers to hold all your gear and mats for crafting.

[Kaurhz]

The Game Visually Shows you that when you do something: Defeat an enemy, open a box, etc, that you pick up an item.
And this UI element is there to show you your Inventory space. It is now Your Responsibility to manage and organize and clean out your Inventory.
The game even still does you the service of playing a sound effect and Text in the middle of your screen when you are running low on space, down to the last 5 or 3 slots
Could it be improved?...well yeah, anything you can think of in life could be improved. But, The game has supplied you with the tools to succeed, and somehow its not good enough.

I just cant even....

I do hate to be that one, but frankly, yes, the game already gives you the tools to succeed and to prevent this issue, with several solutions as you've pointed out, but ultimately some people just don't care to actually use the solutions. Now, whether they could be better is a different discussion entirely, but this OP just hasn't used the tools given to him in any capacity, and then subsequently complain that said tools don't exist. The onus at this point is entirely on the player for not reading the UI elements at all.

That said, I think this proverb is very apt right about now.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Nothing about losing an item because you forgot to check is better UI wise than a confirmation.

you know what's clunky? having SEVERAL notifications for inventory being full, not just a single one when it actually fills. It could all be cleaned up with a simple confirmation if you do forget to check your inventory and it happens to be full.

If we had no way of seeing, without opening inventory, that it was full, I'd be all for it. But we DO have tools to do so. The OP simply isn't using them.


I've never heard someone complain about getting MORE warning that your inventory is getting full. That's a new one lol. And I wouldn't consider that clunky. It doesn't force you to hit a button when the message pops up.

[GTK0HLK]

I didn't misunderstand anything. And I was quite clear with my point. To me it just seems like you are trying to find a really nice way of saying it's whatever, where I believe the OP has a point and it should be acted upon. Plain and simple.

Then at that point, only in this topic, I'll just accept that you have intentionally decided to not understand what I mean, or hope for In these discussions.

I'm not one to dismiss, unless they intentionally are dismissive over everything.

And I've always suggested alternatives if they are possible.
<the unfortunate case, is that the alternatives always lead to the same situation. hence why. I take the, regardless of the situation. which isnt dismissive. or flat out denying upgrades/updates. I even pointed out, if there was a temp inventory. that there should be a negative to it, cause the issue is largely the player in the end.>

Unfortunately, you got the wrong feel of what I meant. but that's fine, as its unlikely we'll disagree in other topics.
Hope intent isn't misunderstood in later topics.

[kevin_satron]

I'm waiting for them to add account wide inventory storage. Then you could use alts to store items and not need 10 retainers to hold all your gear and mats for crafting.

they wont do that because they want you to buy an extra retainers

[Ravenblade1979]

What this actually is: OP didn't pay attention to how filled their inventory was, ignored warning messages that do pop up and didn't make room knowing they were atma farming plus a few extra for trash drops. so they took to forums to give some idea that frankly while would be cool would only benefit people who got really bad inventory management like OP here.

what OP and people like them should be doing: going through inventory and vendoring trash. mostly all monster drops and even lots of mats are able to be gotten again from vendors or a bit of monster killing. utilize your glam dresser for pieces of gear you want to keep so it saves on space, then utilize your chocobo saddlebag and retainer storage (i mean thats what they there for). Inventory management isn't difficult and if you too lazy to even do that. then why should SE make a temp inventory thing when it won't change how you play. would just turn it into a tool for you to temp store more till you stopped being lazy and did something proactive with your inventory.

[Zakuyia]

All jokes aside if you guys are serious on april fools day. Then let me give u sound advice........git gud at inventory management XD

[Ath192]

I've never heard someone complain about getting MORE warning that your inventory is getting full.

You are posting in a thread that functionally amounts to that. Right here, right now.

It feels like the goal post shifted a bit here as well as it's no longer about the UI becoming clunky. But I am explicitly interested in improving the UI more than winning any argument and you highlighted exactly the problem that I have with the UI, and one possible solution for it.

1. On one hand you have a three tier warning message and a catastrophe in which the process is this:
- Hey you have 3 slots left
- Hey you have 2 slots left
- Hey you have 1 slot left
- Oh hey, too bad

I will mention that the text in red is also really easy to ignore. For which reasons I cannot say but I definitely don't pay too much attention to them even though I haven't been a huge victim of this issue.

2. On the other hand we have another system that eradicates all those warning messages and solves the catastrophe which is this:
- Oh hey your inventory is full do you want to discard an item from your inventory or lose it?

To me it's clear a solution is one single method that eliminates all the warning messages and avoids the tragedy of ignoring them in one fell swoop. Not only is it more efficient but it is more proactive in solving the problem rather than merely warning against it.


Can you, and ignoring who is making this post, for all it matters it is some stranger out there who anonymously left these two proposed systems in your desk for review, in good conscience say that the first system is better than the second?

That is why I support the OP and acknowledge there is a better way to do this and it should get looked into, regardless of what tools we have in place. If it was so effective a customer wouldn't have gone through the trouble of posting in the forums and going as far as attaching a screenshot to it. There is literally no reason this couldn't be improved.

[Ravenblade1979]

You are posting in a thread that functionally amounts to that. Right here, right now.

It feels like the goal post shifted a bit here as well as it's no longer about the UI becoming clunky. But I am explicitly interested in improving the UI more than winning any argument and you highlighted exactly the problem that I have with the UI, and one possible solution for it.

1. On one hand you have a three tier warning message and a catastrophe in which the process is this:
- Hey you have 3 slots left
- Hey you have 2 slots left
- Hey you have 1 slot left
- Oh hey, too bad

I will mention that the text in red is also really easy to ignore. For which reasons I cannot say but I definitely don't pay too much attention to them even though I haven't been a huge victim of this issue.

2. On the other hand we have another system that eradicates all those warning messages and solves the catastrophe which is this:
- Oh hey your inventory is full do you want to discard an item from your inventory or lose it?

To me it's clear a solution is one single method that eliminates all the warning messages and avoids the tragedy of ignoring them in one fell swoop. Not only is it more efficient but it is more proactive in solving the problem rather than merely warning against it.


Can you, and ignoring who is making this post, for all it matters it is some stranger out there who anonymously left these two proposed systems in your desk for review, in good conscience say that the first system is better than the second?

That is why I support the OP and acknowledge there is a better way to do this and it should get looked into, regardless of what tools we have in place. If it was so effective a customer wouldn't have gone through the trouble of posting in the forums and going as far as attaching a screenshot to it. There is literally no reason this couldn't be improved.

can't tell if you actually trolling or not but as per your one line...yeah a customer who can't be bothered to properly maintain their own inventory so takes to forums to make a solution so they still don't have to maintain their inventory lol