Instanced Housing: A Boon For Players And Profits Both

The idea of SE adding $100+ instanced houses like ESO makes me giggle a bit. All the popcorn in the world won't be enough for this sub-forum.

Ya lost me at extra purchases, bro.

Instanced houses are value enough without having to milk it like some trashy f2p shovelware.

Fully customizable spaces + gpose = free marketting glamour shots.

I do not think they should make housing another RMT transaction. It would be better to just give them a somewhat high gil cost and use them as a gil sink. If everyone can get a house, houses would take far more gil out of the game than they currently do, which would be good for the ingame economy. If priced like existing houses, that could sink tens of millions of gil per player. Sure, it would be a grind to get that much gil in the first place, but the house would be guaranteed once you can afford it. And I would rather have that system over 'grinding' the lottery with tiny chances each week or having to spend real money for a game house.

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Originally Posted by Besame

IMO, paying for something that has been touted as "included" in game for yrs is not smart. I'd suggest Mr. Yoshi change wigs and get with the times, toss the bandaids and make housing better for real.

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I'm not talking about selling ALL housing: SPECIAL HOUSING ONLY. The normal houses in game would be purely for gil, as they've always been. An unlimited amount of those houses as well. The only thing that would be up for sale would be SPECIAL housing options. Not housing in general. I think people missed that part.

And to touch on the issue of server space: Yes, they would absolutely have to upgrade their servers to accommodate: Hopefully the semiconductor shortage issue will straighten itself out soon and they could make those purchases/upgrades.

Wouldn't work out because one time purchases would quickly be overtaken by the server costs to maintain the extra, endless housing.

The Elder Scrolls Online you can use real money to buy a house off there cash shop. I believe all there housing is instant housing.

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Originally Posted by Angellos

And to touch on the issue of server space: Yes, they would absolutely have to upgrade their servers to accommodate: Hopefully the semiconductor shortage issue will straighten itself out soon and they could make those purchases/upgrades.

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The semiconductor shortage is a confluence of a few problems, covid outbreaks at chip manufacturing plants, power shortages in China, a fire in Japan, and extreme weather in Texas, amongst others.

But the latest adding to the pile is that making chips uses about 70% of the world's annual neon production, and ~55% of the 667 million litres of semiconductor-grade neon used each year as buffers for the lasers in semiconductor manufacturing is normally supplied by two Ukrainian companies:- Ingas in Mariupol and Cryoin in Odessa. Most of the rest coming from China.

Right now, we are coming towards the end of stockpiles from before the war, so things are going to get even tighter over the coming 6 months to a year.

But even once that neon is back, and it won't be immediately the war ends with factory rebuilds (Mariupol was basically flattened and neon is a byproduct of Russian and Ukrainian steel manufacture) on top of supply chain reconstruction, it still takes 4 months to make a chip, and that hasn't solved the other issues before the war - a shortage of plants and skilled staff.

This shortage - and needing to rebuild Ukrainian Steel then Neon production - on top of the other problems the industry has is really going to be pushing chip manufacture out 24 months or more, so well into 2024 at the looks of things.

It's so bad right now that some car companies are shipping their vehicles without certain electronics. https://observer.com/2022/03/automak...th-a-shortage/

This shortage is a lot more serious than most people comprehend, because we have been surviving so far on almost depleted Neon stock piles. But they are almost gone, and with 4 months needed to make a chip, the end of this year should be a real shock.

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Originally Posted by Angellos

It is senseless to just keep adding wards and it seems like more trouble than it's worth. With instanced housing, everyone can get a home.

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so you want to create "fairness" by taking away what people already have, to replace it with something less than what already exists?

nice open display of communism. Dress it up however you want. instanced housing (outside of what we already have) won't be added in place of the current overarching housing system.

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Originally Posted by Angellos

The lottery has already failed. It's time for instanced housing.

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....it hasn't even been two months. the Raffle didnt fail. it served the precise purpose it was meant to serve. to sell houses in a far more structured and manageable method so as to prevent bots buying out the market and reselling at inflated costs. If you honestly think that instanced housing is going to replace the current housing system we already have, you're mental.

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Originally Posted by Angellos

Every other game does it, and it works out VERY WELL for everyone involved, actually.

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really? remind me...what MMO got the award for Longest running? Remind me, which game had to stop selling copies of their game, because they were just doing that well? ..Crazy I don't remember any of those titles ever making headlines for that. If those companies want to make people feel special, fine. but S.E has made it to that everyone has an equal chance to win or lose at obtaining a house. Everyone whined and complained for years to get this, they finally get it, and do nothing but whine and complain that they got what they wanted.


I can't help but realize that no one here is understanding that their games code, can't support those kind of additions. It's been 10+ years of the same graphics, against games that have been kept up to date with graphics improvements and we're seeing ONLY JUST RECENTLY S.E. admit, it's time to catch up. and you want them to somehow magically add ALLL these wonky coded areas that would likely break the game across all servers, just so you can say "i have a house, just like everyone else."


That's downright petty.

You didnt get a house? Tough luck. Life isn't fair, deal with it.
You want a house, work hard for the money, and spin your chances again when another opening comes available.