Just an observation since many players are saying they haven't played an MMO that used text for inventory items, Eve Online, which has probably the most items and places the most emphasis on inventory of any popular MMO, does in fact provide a text based inventory list. It also provides an icon based inventory and a detailed text view.

I know, it's only to be expected from a game commonly described as "spreadsheets in space" (it has an embedded web browser, even!) but there you are.

Also, while people are wishing for inventory features, I'll just toss in a wish for FFXIV to blatantly rip off the ArkInventory mod from World of Warcraft; I've never seen a better inventory system in an MMO than that.

I know it'd be a ton of work though, so I won't be too disappointed if that doesn't happen.