Housing system 'pause' is making people leave

Eventually, they'll decide that the pause for COVID-19 has gone on long enough.
(Or there will be a vaccine, or there will be significant decline in cases, or government and media will act as if things are solved, even if they aren't.)

And then housing will be fixed. For a few hours the morning this happens, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Edax

Well, it wouldn't be a great reason to stay subbed only because of a better housing system.

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Perhaps this is his main interest, because the content ends and while waits for a new one, so this is his High-end lol

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Originally Posted by Burado_T

Perhaps this is his main interest, because the content ends and while waits for a new one, so this is his High-end lol

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I do like the other content well enough, though not as much as other games I've played in the past. For me it's the vast wealth of character customization options (including the housing system) that sets FFXIV apart from the pack. It's also just constantly being reminded that the content is inaccessible that kills my mood.

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Originally Posted by Burado_T

Perhaps this is his main interest, because the content ends and while waits for a new one, so this is his High-end lol

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Even housing content ends. I may have spend weeks redesigning my home in the winter, but once it was redesigned I've haven't made a change in all of 2020. It wouldn't be a great reason to stay subbed *only* because of a better housing system.

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Originally Posted by Edax

Even housing content ends. I may have spend weeks redesigning my home in the winter, but once it was redesigned I've haven't made a change in all of 2020. It wouldn't be a great reason to stay subbed *only* because of a better housing system.

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Depends on people, there are people who, after all the content, begin to rebuild the house every month

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Originally Posted by Burado_T

Depends on people, there are people who, after all the content, begin to rebuild the house every month

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FFXIV isn't the Sims, being subbed *only* for it ain't a great reason. Having to glitch constantly for the most basic loft ideas is one of the greatest showcases that this game was not made with interior decoration as the primary selling point. Having to undo all the painstaking glitching every month would test the patience of even Sisyphus.

https://assets.housingsnap.com/uploa..._watermark.jpg

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Originally Posted by Edax

FFXIV isn't the Sims, being subbed *only* for it ain't a great reason. Having to glitch constantly for the most basic loft ideas is one of the greatest showcases that this game was not made with interior decoration as the primary selling point. Having to undo all the painstaking glitching every month would test the patience of even Sisyphus.

https://assets.housingsnap.com/uploa..._watermark.jpg

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Naturally, but in the end we are in a different situation, the house is also a place for creativity and communication, for someone role-playing, growing and selection, for guilds a workshop, a stand for a chocobo and all this in an atmosphere that you create. yourself. And the problem is to get the house itself, because she is completely independent. And even attempts to allow guilds to buy houses, they also collapse (transferring a personal house to a new ward)

I'm okay with that. If housing was the only thing keeping you around, you clearly weren't very invested in the game anyhow.

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Originally Posted by Edax

FFXIV isn't the Sims, being subbed *only* for it ain't a great reason. Having to glitch constantly for the most basic loft ideas is one of the greatest showcases that this game was not made with interior decoration as the primary selling point. Having to undo all the painstaking glitching every month would test the patience of even Sisyphus.

https://assets.housingsnap.com/uploa..._watermark.jpg

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Not the topic, but that looks great! Is that your house? I floated and glitched a few things and it was such a pita I decided that was enough, can't imagine how long this would take.

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Originally Posted by Jennah

Eventually, they'll decide that the pause for COVID-19 has gone on long enough...
And then housing will be fixed. For a few hours the morning this happens, anyway.

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A nice thought, but not actually how it would play out. If i snapped my fingers and unpaused the auto-demo feature(which we all know i cant actually do) when the servers reset today(roughly 6 hours from the time im typing this) the number of houses that would open up would be in the zero to low single digits range per server. Un-pausing the timer just means that the houses that were already about to go away would be gone. Youd see a small number in the first couple weeks, a few more in the second couple weeks, a bigger increase in the 3rd couple weeks. Then on the 45th day(yes, six and a half weeks later) we would finally see exactly how many people stopped playing during the pandemic. On an american DC server, the average player population is 3-4 times how many houses are available in game. While there would certainly be new homes had, the numbers would be much lower then some people think. Housing wouldnt even be solved for 30 mins. Oh, and all those new buyers still have to deal with the RNG timer, so they all have the added benefit of being mad at the system all over again too.