PAX East 2017 Question-Gathering

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Originally Posted by BigRed5392

no they don't they do a create character stop on congested worlds. Players milk it by transferring or waiting for the golden moment.

Most people forget how player housing came about.

1) it was going to be its own thing, but players wanted all perk of an FC house with a player house so SE did what they could.

2) anyone can make a character on a low pop server, SE is and has been trying to get people to do so. With the cross world pf ect.

they are trying to build a community game, and already said they are not too keen on instance housing. It came up multiple times.

a housing crisis would be if ALL servers had no housing. and that isn't the case. The more wards they had for bulmung and gilgamesh, the emptier smaller servers become as we end up with more housing then players.

my g/f have seen other mmo do instance housing, and it seems disjointed.

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They control the access to servers and if they allow too many players to a server there are quantity issues, it's simple they allowed too many and didn't create enough houses - it's their issue. As pretty much the government of FFXIV it's SE responsibility to handle immigration, certain severs need it others do not - when they sell immigration tickets even though there are issues already Yes it is SE's fault and issue. Perhaps they want not everyone to have a house but I'm pretty sure they are deaf or don't care about player desire then because it's clear everyone wants one (or option to).There are many FC and players who don't have access to houses and their features, a very big issue for FC, and if SE cuts corners as you're trying to blame it on player demand (players wanting personal housing) then it is still SE's issue, they design the system.

Furthermore the housing system barely has community now, and I'm on a fat full server, with massive amounts of dead houses- added to that I'm not sure what game your GF is talking about but Wildstar for example had a massively more networked community even though it was instanced (also the system was far more creative and everyone was able to partake). Or we could talk about LotR which is the one that FFXIV resembles closely but they have their wards grow when they get full, also had many dead communities like FFXIV too lol. Although you could example WoW Garrison and then yeah literal zero community, but again everyone could take part (FFXI same situation).

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Originally Posted by BigRed5392

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The Solution is not to try and coax people off of servers. You can't force people to do what they don't want to do, especially if they're customers. Most of the time you wouldn't even be able to entice them. Saying there are empty houses on other servers isn't going to make anyone want to up and leave their friends, their FC, their linkshells, etc... and to suggest that to do so somehow -promotes- socialization rather than outright destroys it is false at best, and dishonest at worst. Worse than that, moving to a server with no friends or support is more likely to drive a person to stop playing the game altogether. A virtual house is not worth that.

The correct solution is private instanced housing for each individual character, while the Housing Wards are made FC exclusive. This gives players, on an individual basis, access to the full scope of gameplay and in-game services offered by the Housing System. Chocobo Stables, Gardens, Aquariums, etc... This gives FCs the needed opportunity to establish their own bases, build airships, etc...

The current system is broken, and saying it isn't because there are still empty plots on low-population servers does not change that, because should those plots be taken, then those low population servers are right where the high population servers are. Square Enix needs to design and develop the game for the future, not the short term.


The above having been said, I still thinking asking about Private Instanced Individual Player-Character Housing is a valid question and one which SE should take VERY seriously.

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Originally Posted by xbahax92

Since there is no work on the character creator, can we atleast hope for more presets for faces, eyes, mouths, more tattoos, more race specific tattoo's (maybe even body ones?) etc? Adding new sliders might be probably more work, so can we atleast hope for more variety?

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Didn't they already say they weren't planning anything additional of that nature for the time being in the last liveletter?

I hope someone brings to Yoshi's attention the reddit user who was nearly permabanned because SE's customer support is dreadful.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Didn't they already say they weren't planning anything additional of that nature for the time being in the last liveletter?

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As far I know, they didnt have any plans to have changes on it. I mean having sliders etc might take more time and work to function, while we could atleast get more presets of faces (as example) which would do the job too, right? And since they even had to mention butt sliders.. I rather ask for more preset stuff.