Dev Tracker - Discussion

Gearswap maintains its own inventory structures that it doesn't wipe on zone, so it is able to equip stuff before your inventory loads.

Same reason businesses have historically wanted to shy away from nickel and diming customers - it creates ill will, tarnishes the brand, etc. The wardrobe feature cost a certain amount to implement and they must've more than recouped it by now. I'm with you in wanting to support SE financially to keep the game afloat and actively developed and maintained. I wish they gave us (many!) more options for that. I just think recurring payment for inventory space is a bad way to do it, that's all.

Ill will from people who are getting a paid subscription product for free lol

Agreed. Its a slippery slope. I personally went from owning wardrobe 3, and 4, and realizing all this is doing is enabling my hoarding activities across all characters. I painstakingly reorganized and decided to cancel those services. I'm now wardrobe (paid) free!

Not targeting anyone in particular (and I want to especially call out that Enochroot is consistently thoughtful and kind and we get along, we just have a different view on this one and that's fine)

I think it's a totally unrealistic concern that there is any significant number of people who are choosing not to pay for FFXI because paid Wardrobes exist. That's just fiction.

By the very nature of the circumstances that make wardrobes useful, we know that their target audience is players who are already pretty into FFXI and have probably played for a long time. Otherwise, they wouldn't have a jam-packed mog safe, locker, satchel, sack, case, and two free wardrobes, AND find that Porter Moogles still aren't enough... they need even more storage. Uh, that's the profile of a player who is your proven audience, and who has stuck around paying for your game for years. Offering a paid optional add-on is not driving these people to cancel their subscriptions, I don't believe that for a second.

And even if you don't just come to the conclusion by reasoning it out, you can get further insight by simply observing SE's actions being consistent with the hypothesis: if SE had started losing a lot of subscription revenue by introducing Wardrobes, we'd know it because they wouldn't still be offering the Wardrobes in the exact same model they have been for years without change.


One thing that does sort of frustrate me:
Why won't they do a combined XI + XIV subscription for a discount versus both? I've heard a TON of XIV players asking about that in the past year or so with the crossovers and XI's increased visibility. And remember when XIV 1.0 launched and they were planning a combo subscription? Never happened, and I know I'd be one of those people who they'd get more money out of if they offered it - I'd mess with XIV a bit if I got a discounted bundle subscription.

But hey, maybe they've run their numbers and they have reasons. Maybe the money they're making from people paying two full priced subscriptions outweighs their projected revenue from offering a bundle subscription. Maybe they're worried about servers being overloaded. Maybe they're just being dumb. Who knows.

Man, I'm never going back to that restaurant. The chef recognized that I'd been a regular there before, welcomed me in and gave me a free burger, fries, and a drink for my past loyalty. No charge, dude just gave me a free meal, sent me on my way, and told me to keep them in mind for next time.

But you see, I have a big problem with that. The free burger had NO BACON on it! And I like bacon! Sometimes when I used to go there, I'd spring for the extra $2 for bacon. But now this freaking clown gives me a free burger and has the GALL to not include free bacon??? WTF, that nickel-and-diming jerkface.

Never going back there again, even though I do like the food and they haven't raised the price of the burger since 2002.

to be fair they tried in the past with things like the satchel security token, the merch, the add on expansions, and iirc noone(on the NA side at least) liked those, except maybe the satchel since it was, like wardrobes, an increase in inventory which was very limited, and even that was mixed since SE could have just upped their login security on their end without the need for a physical token to be bought.

Merch with codes was probably the worst since it was largely overpriced low quality stuff or locked to a JP only event. All of these also cost resources while the wardrobes are just a recurring, generally desired addition that doesnt upset the player balance too much in general play.

I think we're probably closer on this than it seems. The context is free-to-play periods and access to the additional wardrobes. The point of f2p periods for a game this old is to lure old folks back, not drum up new interest (because wtf even is a marketing budget?)

Holding extra wardrobes hostage means a non-zero number of people will come back for a f2p for a reason and be blocked on doing whatever it was they wanted to do. Are those people more or less likely to re-sub to accomplish what they wanted to do? In other words, the point of f2p is to lure re-subs and then they're kneecapping ppl in the process, so that defeats the purpose.

Truth be told, WE'RE probably thinking about this more than SE did when they made the decision. They're not fighting tooth and nail to earn every last sub and the context we're arguing over would apply to DOZENS of people. DOZENS.

Aside: given the influx of new items/armor we got with the limbus update, I wonder if SE has any sort of internal rule about adding items and considering storage or if they're just YOLOing it. For every x items added, y% need to be storable. Anything like that? We're all probably just overthinking this ***, lol.

Oh no my free steak isnt juicy enough and my free lobster doesnt have enough butter.

This argument is flawed. People who try it out and think of something they want to do and aren't poor will pay the $15-$25 and play around rather than cry about their wardrobes. A non-zero amount of people will activate and then fail to get interested but also leave the sub going for a while. Any subscription model has a strong incentive to get the sub active, because there's a substantial portion of users that are apathetic or lazy and will let it run while not using it. Why do you think every free trial under the sun needs credit card info?

The people who are upset they have to pay full price to get additional features are not the ones who are going to keep a sub going long term. If $15-25 is a large financial decision for you, you aren't the target audience of anyone (except maybe those finance your pizza apps).

April update just went live

The Planet Fitness approach

The Mime abilities and Traits are so good, they should just go ahead and make it official.

Dont care
wheres my floating shadow lord head mount

What are the chances that Naji's location is a real thing? SE took the image at 03/31/2026 9:21AM.

It does not appear to be The Garden of Rhu'Met, nor Temenos entrance. Anyone have any ideas?

Are any of the updates real? I remember a few were last year

Random NPCs in my mog gardens

So far I've seen...

Dynamis Xarcabard music is swapped
Raminel is running at the speed of light
Regine's magic shop has a new npc selling a new costume item for 9,999g each, Regine's Fifth Eye (Aldo with cape physics :-o, Prishe, Star Sibyl, Luzaf)
Cherry blossoms on the way to the Shrine of Ru'Avitau
Mog Garden NPCs appear, I wish this were an option you could spend points on, pairings of Eald'narche Kam'lanaut, Prishe Ulmia, Lilisette Cait Sith

Weirdly the home points are intact for me, they're usually busted up.

HP's aren't busted for me either. Cherry blossoms in Whitegate.

Went to Regine's to see what costume it is - I got Aldo, but the door to the shop won't open with a *** costume on. Slow clap.

I got Prishe as a costume. Pretty neat.

Not going to lie, putting the broken Home Points in the patch notes then not putting them in the game is very amusing to me, always keep 'em guessing!

Edit: This gave me a good chuckle too

I Can't wait to pay for wardrobe 9 and 10.

You guys hear about the new expansion pack SE announced for XI?

New city across the taznaian archipelago. Time mage.

The cherry blossoms shouldnt even be a joke.. Aht Urghan Whitegate near the empress gate looks amazing. Really does help ring in Spring.

ALSO THE DYNA-XARC MUSIC. See, this is the cool stuff we want from SE, like.. they have the power to do this and have fun with XI.

Maybe for an event time, like you said for spring. Not always tho, we should keep the authentic art in tact, thats how the designer envisioned it. Or we would verge on the crap private servers do.

I missed that one. Anyone got a link?

It's FFRK Arranged Awakening (so I'm told)

Yeah I zoned in once to hear it, and that sounds like it.

Oh those walmart turbans though cute but nope

Magic crit II +10%! But no haste or MAB on it. Find it's way into RDM meree maybe, hard to work with 0% haste and keep Osash.

Suboptimal defensively, too

Share the link for people, you unwashed heathen. Sheesh:

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