Housing system 'pause' is making people leave

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Originally Posted by Edax

My house is a mansion in Shirogane. It's meant to be a series of ground floor shops, inns on the 2nd tier loft and VIP dining areas on the 3rd tier. Maybe this is a better angle of the lofts. Having to glitch everything up there inch by inch was a huge pain.

https://i.imgur.com/LIbThT3.jpg

And the ground floor under the lofts.

https://i.imgur.com/jOvQliI.jpg

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That's hot. Well done, especially given all the soothing you must have had to do with the placement of everything lol. Well done with out, but the patience garners extra appreciation- sanity was spent as a currency here lol.

On one hand I get the housing frustration. While not with housing per se, I certainly can relate to investing without return or reward. That doesn't make it a good thing though. I learned some valuable lessons from some hard truths with those investments.

While I am not saying to not invest the time into attempting to get into a home. If you do manage to get one that time spent will be well worth it. However, you have to be fully aware that this time sink is a pretty big risk and may, and likely will result in no return. Griping about the housing system as is won't do you much good, and that time, which I am sure you see as valuable; should be evaluated to see if there might be more fruitful ways to be spending it while in game.

Anywho, best of luck to all those out there seeking to build a nest. If you get one, take full advantage of it :)

I suck at decorating, so I stick with my FC's house.

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Originally Posted by Edax

My house is a mansion in Shirogane.

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Daaamn look at all this.
I know your glam game is top, but I'm pretty floored by what you do with your house too.
If it's not a hassle, would you be willing to put up a vid of you walking through your house?
As you mentioned, the unique geography of your house can make it challenging to take pics.

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Originally Posted by Ogmion

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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I'll be honest now, have you considered moving to a less populated server? Balmung is one of the most crowded worlds in the game.

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Originally Posted by ItMe

Daaamn look at all this.
I know your glam game is top, but I'm pretty floored by what you do with your house too.
If it's not a hassle, would you be willing to put up a vid of you walking through your house?
As you mentioned, the unique geography of your house can make it challenging to take pics.

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I'll admit, my house is not entirely unique, my loft setup was inspired by this walkthrough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMtC...&index=43&t=0s

I differentiated by being more symmetrical and because I still use my basement as an onsen inn and thus I had to work with a lower item count. I also put more focus on my shops.

Housing demolition timer is a dumb idea to begin with, honestly.

if the elder scrolls online and runescape can figure out how to let everyone own their own house then surely the FF14 devs can figure it out too

but lets not get our hopes up

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

if the elder scrolls online and runescape can figure out how to let everyone own their own house then surely the FF14 devs can figure it out too

but lets not get our hopes up

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Sure certain members of the Runescape player base can have a house, but the housing system is immensely crude. Honestly an FFXIV apartment offers you far more than a whole Runescape house.

How about if they made the house watcher npc guy tell you the total number of plots currently available on the datacenter and which worlds they are on. Then if you visit the world with vacant plots and buy one, it automatically changes your home world to that world and waives the transfer fee. And the transaction fails if you have some condition that would prevent you changing home world.

That way the blame can be shifted to the players for staying on a congested world while the npc is telling you houses are readily available elsewhere. And if the entire datacenter is full I guess people just need to share with tenancy and fc estates. Promote the feature with a campaign period, receive gold feather or something for performing some sort of action as a tenant of a friend's plot.

I love housing I decorate my own large and the large FC house every 4-6 months but housing shouldn't be the only reason why you're subbed. If that's the case you should try playing the sims or animal crossing.

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Originally Posted by Edax

Sure certain members of the Runescape player base can have a house, but the housing system is immensely crude. Honestly an FFXIV apartment offers you far more than a whole Runescape house.

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ESO's instanced housing system isn't crude.

RIFT's wasn't either (or I suppose still is, far as I know it's still running).

Whenever Wildstar gets mentioned, it's usually to praise its instanced housing system (though it wasn't enough to save the game).

With apartments and even house interiors already instanced, we know this is something that SE can do. It's a question of how far they could improve it if they chose to.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

How about if they made the house watcher npc guy tell you the total number of plots currently available on the datacenter and which worlds they are on. Then if you visit the world with vacant plots and buy one, it automatically changes your home world to that world and waives the transfer fee.

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You can't purchase a house unless that already is your home world. You can transfer home worlds without meeting a lot of conditions (including being logged out of the game so your character data can be moved).

I can also promise you that transfer fees will never be waived just because someone wants to buy a house.

I do admit that having the Housing Enthusiast give a summary of available houses on a data center would be a nice idea. It would save players a little headache when it comes to looking for one.

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Originally Posted by Ogmion

Don't really know if anyone who reads this will care, but I thought I'd share before I quit just to highlight how serious this issue is for some people.

So I had previously quit the game with no plans to return, but with the lockdown I figured it was a good way to kill time. First thing I set upon doing was farming enough to get and furnish the house I had always wanted. I ended up getting some lucky drops and earning enough quite quickly, and I was really excited... and then I found out how impossible my goal would be. The very rare occasions when I've actually seen a house on the market these days it is always swarmed by 10+ players, and usually purchased by a relocation (this continues quite a few times as everyone then swarms the house they moved out of).

The system for buying a house was rough around the edges even when it was open, but now it's almost entirely impossible to use. Every day I get to see my wallet and wonder when I might actually get the chance to use it, and that led to asking why I'm even paying to sit in limbo like this. So I guess that's it for me.

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Why would you ask them to stop the pause XD. Isn't it better people can unsub without losing their house?? LOL