"No new housing wards for at least the next 5 years."

They've said that they'll hold off a while and concentrate on other things first (several months back), but never anything about five years.

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Originally Posted by Sleigh

They showed new housing areas in a Heavensward video. Your friend is completely full of it.

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They did? I do not remember seeing that.

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Originally Posted by Titor

They did? I do not remember seeing that.

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Yeah, they even said that right now they don't feel Ishgard should have housing because of all that the wild mess happening there. I wouldn't trust that info.

No developer would ever make any statement that would commit them to something as long-term as 5 years so it's pretty obvious your 'friend' is making things up.

The reality is they've stated that there will be no new housing areas in Ishgard for Heavensward but they have implied (meaning: not outright stated) that we'll get some more wards with the expansion. The expansion would make the most sense for timing to expand the housing areas since they'll be doing back-end work on the servers anyway. Whether they do or not... we'll see I suppose.

Unless its in a REALLY obscure interview, I think your friend is wrong. Infact not that long ago the devs were saying that most of the proceeds of the cash shop are to allow them to invest in infrastructure for additional housing, etc.

Source or it didn't happen *nod nods*

My friend told me that his sister went to Japan last month and met a guy who interviewed a guy from Square who said that Yoshi said they were going to give everyone a free house in Hevensward.

New housing servers will be announced next week, April the 1st. Look forward to it.

LOL I'm sure he also told you the game is going free to play and dropping playstation support.

I love how all these new posts have been added and the OP has yet to show us his source XD.