Retainers for money

[AdorraEloom]

Personally I don't think that paying for extra retainers with real money will work very well, considering that you can make up to 8? characters on one account which each character will have its own two retainers, so most people would just created extra characters and just send items to those characters and put it on their retainers at no additional charge.

[Shougun]

Personally I don't think that paying for extra retainers with real money will work very well, considering that you can make up to 8? characters on one account which each character will have its own two retainers, so most people would just created extra characters and just send items to those characters and put it on their retainers at no additional charge.

Only Legacy and those who pay for the premium monthly fee get 8 characters. Basic monthly you cannot.

[Wolfie]

Only Legacy and those who pay for the premium monthly fee get 8 characters. Basic monthly you cannot.

Basic monthly gets you 8 characters, premium 40, and all legacy get 40 with the discounted rate.

[Shougun]

Basic monthly gets you 8 characters, premium 40, and all legacy get 40 with the discounted rate.

Basic gets you 8 characters, 1 PER server.

Premium/Legacy is 40, 8 PER server.


Thats what I meant. That you have to have premium package to take benefit of all the retainers.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../campaign.html

[Wolfie]

Basic gets you 8 characters, 1 PER server.

Premium/Legacy is 40, 8 PER server.


Thats what I meant. That you have to have premium package to take benefit of all the retainers.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../campaign.html

Looks like you're right.

Still, hopping from basic to premium will get you way more storage and sale slots unless you somehow manage to need more than 8 characters' worth of retainers.

[AdorraEloom]

I was having this idea about SE charging money for extra retainers. What do you guys think about it ? PS I enjoyed crafting a lot more to that I like collecting items and gear

If there is another thread about my idea point me to it thanks hope to see y'all soon online.

In ARR retainers could be used as storage but the main purpose of them would be to sell items in wards, I would assume at least. So if you like hording items for crafting and stuff than you should be ok to store them in your housing.

[Linkurrra]

I wasn't aware that they were getting rid of paid retainers?

It's just that during 1.0 they gave us 1 extra for free and locked it at 2. However I haven't heard anything about what are they doing with retainers except for the recent post from Rukkirii:

I have a small update regarding retainer levels to share with you.

Based on the feedback we collected in the past, the dev. team is looking to implement different features for your retainer as they level up. For example, we are looking into allowing retainers to perform chores, such as gathering.

As soon as we receive detailed information on leveling up your friendly caretakers and the tasks that they will be able to perform at certain levels, we will be sure to let you know!

So it sounds like retainers will have a much bigger role in FFXIV:ARR than in 1.0. Which would make them worth paying extra for them!

I think it would be interesting if they had a way to summon your retainer out in the field. This of course would remove your retainer from the markets to sell items. However, the retainer would follow you around. although I suppose this sounds silly when you can Bazaar items off your character. But torwards the end, nobody looked at the bazaar's anymore! or at least you never knew they did because you didn't get a message unless they bought something. Towards the end I was selling stuff for 1 gil that sold for thousands of gil in the markets. I sold nothing because nobody checked the bazaar's after they added searching to the markets. Can't blame them, but there has got to be a better way to make bazaars more meaningful.

[Takeshi_Eiketsu]

I wasn't aware that they were getting rid of paid retainers?

It's just that during 1.0 they gave us 1 extra for free and locked it at 2. However I haven't heard anything about what are they doing with retainers except for the recent post from Rukkirii:



So it sounds like retainers will have a much bigger role in FFXIV:ARR than in 1.0. Which would make them worth paying extra for them!

I think it would be interesting if they had a way to summon your retainer out in the field. This of course would remove your retainer from the markets to sell items. However, the retainer would follow you around. although I suppose this sounds silly when you can Bazaar items off your character. But torwards the end, nobody looked at the bazaar's anymore! or at least you never knew they did because you didn't get a message unless they bought something. Towards the end I was selling stuff for 1 gil that sold for thousands of gil in the markets. I sold nothing because nobody checked the bazaar's after they added searching to the markets. Can't blame them, but there has got to be a better way to make bazaars more meaningful.

Just to let you know, we do not have bazaars anymore. Ill find a source of info for you.

[Shougun]

I'm really not a fan of making them do more and also making them paid - thats akin to p2w philosophies I hope stay out of this game.

If anything for paying I'd be least upset* if SE introduced a kind of Riot LoL system where say SE releases a bunch of cool pets and you can collect in game points to buy them or just accelerate the process and buy them with real cash - also important that these items are not game winners like being able to buy a relic item or "being able to get it within the game" is a huge no wtf dont do that.


But introducing exclusive purchased content on a monthly paid game that is not massive expansion packs is just annoying money grubbing buissiness that threw me away from WoW and Blizzard. Like when they talked about selling peoples maps in sc2... lol wtf, did they not know why wc3 was so awesome ? Or D3 which was a p2w able.. just buy the best items as soon as you hit that level no challange or real game to speak of.

*said begrudging but.. I dont think its the right word, anyway least upset because p2w for a p2p game is disturbing. Any content added to the game should be available to all paying players imo. Hence my leat annoyed payment system would be like LoL's (though I'd be happy with never having to deal with a pay system)

[rina_inverse]

are we seriously suggesting to pay more money to get more retainer?