Originally Posted by
Samhayne
Or maybe to be able to buy more inventory spaces with say, Story Tokens?
The reason that Essences take up space, like a real item, is because the Crafting System is designed in such a way that it can use other real items to craft stuff. This leaves the door open for a lot of exciting future developments. For example, maybe we allow you to take several Bronze Chests and combine them to make a Silver Chest?
Of course, this is all just talk at this point and none of the ideas I have expressed here are in development.
It does have the wrinkle of making inventory space and management more of an issue, which the Dev Team is aware of.