Optional Fee based Storage ExpansionFollow

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml

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Considering based on reports the Mog Station pulled in QUITE a lot of money, I'm not surprised SE would do this.

However it's still fairly funny they can directly increase our inventory in XI but XIV seemingly has to wait until an expansion. I fear for my gear swaps with this 3&4 MW though.

Indeed, that's why while I know from first hand design experience the consoles are limited, it's not so to the point they can't do the basics. That's why I'm not really too worried about these optional services in XI since they gave us what..

Mog Satchel (Token), Mog Sack (Free), Mog Case (Free) Mog Wardrobe (Free) Mog Wardobe 2 (Free and realistically not needed unless you play everything to 100%), Mog Safe 2 (Floor 2+Patio extension: Free)...all when they said "PS2 limitations" in place of "No don't want to do that right now."

So honestly, them catching a few extra $ here and there is always a good thing since the MW 3 and 4 are as optional as it can be but for people who are terrible at inventory management (like me) it could be a god send for equipment sets lol. Heck it could even signal a monthly fee drop since that extra $ could be similar to how despite my sub fee if I didn't use left over crysta is $9.99 a month, 2 extra retainers basically brings me to the standard monthly fee of XIV.

If the cessation of major development didn't do that... this sure won't.

Edited, Jul 4th 2016 9:21am by Callinon

If they were being more aggressive about content development and other in-game issues, like others, it probably wouldn't bother me so much. The thing with recent inventory developments is it sounds like they got a new guy to look at all the code and figured out how to do things differently and/or more efficiently, which isn't unheard of as programming ages. Whether or not this translates to a literal need for new hardware or greatly increased server strain is the unknown, but I'm not terribly inclined to agree that the case.

Otherwise, inventory clogging is basically a problem of SE's making. I know some people seem to like the situational nature of gear swaps, but if they sat down and figured out ways to better consolidate items to meet a given job's needs, you suddenly wouldn't need 3+ pieces for a given slot. Kissing the random augment BS goodbye en lieu of selected mods would also be a step in the right direction.

In terms of populations, I can understand why they don't merge servers given limited pseudo-instancing, but I still say they need to work on some cross-server functionality and/or eliminate the world transfer fee. That way people are better served in finding a place that works for them so they could actually do the non-solo content with a higher degree of reliability.