No more housing?

On Phoenix it's more or less the Goblet with spaces and a bit of Mist I guess. You can call me picky if you want, but considering it's my hard earned gil I have every right to want to put it down on a place/location I don't hate. I also mentioned that I had a place picked out with a friend (and possibly any others for a little neighborhood). It just wasn't till now that we could really afford to drop gil on housing.

In any case, if they're adding more housing eventually then all's fine. XD

They do not need to focus on housing every patch. Give it a bit of time, especially when many servers have a ton left over.

I'm glad they're finally going to work on other aspects of housing instead of simply making more of it. Houses are in a desperate need of a higher furnishing limit. 100 spaces in a fully (properly) decorated small is bad. 150 for a medium is awful and 200 for a large is abysmal. Have you ever seen a 200/200 large? They look empty! Sure, you can get the basic furniture down, but if you wanna spread around the little things that fill out a house (pictures, rugs, etc) you're completely SOL.

That and there's the matter of housing being almost completely useless. Sure, you can train a chocobo and grow some stuff. That's nice and all, but the rest of it really serves no purpose aside from being a fortress of solitude in dead and abandoned housing wards.

if the location matters that much to you, you could always just trnsfer servers. Jenova has entire subdivisions that are completely empty, and transfers opened November 1st.

I believe this is SE's way of creating server balance. Yoshi saw just how few houses were taken on the smaller servers, and said "if they actually care, they can transfer and take those."

What they need to do is just add wards of nothing but small houses. =_=

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Originally Posted by tocsin

Yoshi saw just how few houses were taken on the smaller servers, and said "if they actually care, they can transfer and take those."

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"And throw money at us because server transfers aren't free"

*Shakes head* The longer this game goes on, the more I feel that Yoshida has completely lost touch with his player base. Just about every vanity/cosmetic/extra thing that the players have wanted he's added in such a way as to induce as much rage as humanly possible. Everything has been hopelessly over complicated, wrapped up in so much monetary red tape, or rng that it turns players off from it completely.

Other games have managed these same things with far FAR less rage inducing tactics, of all the things Yoshida could have ripped off from them, why not those things?

They're not adding more actual physical housing plots for now since there's not as much demand for them. They're changing focus to enhancing the way the housing works, such as higher item limits for larger houses and interface tweaks. At least, that's what i gleaned from the live letter.
As someone who has played those other games, it should be noted that a lot of games with private housing either have EVERYTHING instanced so unless you know whose house to look for, it's mostly for self-gratification, or the competition for land is even MORE competitive than in this game.
Also, people will rage over everything. If you set the price on housing to one gil and a 20 minute quest, people would complain that it takes 20 minutes to get a house.
From what I understand, there are very real capacity problems with the game, so it seems like they're completely unable to provide EVERYONE with housing since there's at least 2 million accounts, so it needs to be a finite resource.

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Originally Posted by Riepah

"And throw money at us because server transfers aren't free"

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"And say FU to friends showing them the finger before jumping servers."