Now That The Game Is Getting A Housing Upgrade, When Are The Extra Wards?

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Originally Posted by Kaurhz

You clearly didn't get the point.

I also have my dream plot on Sagittarius very recently (again) in Goblet.. But players on a populated world shouldn't really be required to transfer worlds, especially when that means separating from FC, or in some cases friend groups or making inane compromises like needing to server or DC hop for social interaction and thus hampering their ability to interact with parts of the game, e.g., retainers unspoiled/folklore nodes. They either need to increase wards across the board, or they need to dynamically allocate wards depending on world population.

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95% of fcs in this game are dead anyway. You can always play with friends, thanks to server and data center hopping. You have cross world links shells aswell as fellowships to compensate being in a fc

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Originally Posted by Aidorouge

I imagine they won't add new wards on Aether/Primal/Crystal until most if not all wards are full on Dynamis, as adding new wards to those older data centers all but guarantees that more people leave Dynamis because its literally only good for having plots, hardly anyone plays there for any other reason (in fact most of the players there are literally just housing alts, they don't play the character otherwise).

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Even on Dynamis, it's difficult to get a medium or large house now. There are plenty of smalls, though... which illustrates another problem, but that's not what we're discussing here.

I agree with others that instanced housing would solve most if not all problems, but that's not likely to happen while SE is doubling down on their chosen housing model. SE could take some measures to free up a few houses - by allowing access to company workshops outside of housing for example. But this is still a bandaid fix. As long as demand is far higher than supply, nothing will be solved. I wish they'd give some kind of instanced option.

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Originally Posted by Brynne

by allowing access to company workshops outside of housing for example.

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It was planned years ago for them to add company workshops to personal housing on top of FC's, but we haven't heard news of it in recent years so I assume massive backburner due to bigger problems like what happened with viera hats and what not.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

95% of fcs in this game are dead anyway. You can always play with friends, thanks to server and data center hopping. You have cross world links shells aswell as fellowships to compensate being in a fc

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There's no point in arguing with them. Literally the majority of NA is in a mental state of entitlement and what they "should" have/"should" be able to do. The concept of sacrificing and having priorities on a personal level in the game is a foreign concept because they think Square Enix has too much money and can therefore can make a perfect game that solves any and every problem that comes up with no downsides by just throwing money at it.

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Originally Posted by Voidsent-Uchiha

There's no point in arguing with them. Literally the majority of NA is in a mental state of entitlement and what they "should" have/"should" be able to do. The concept of sacrificing and having priorities on a personal level in the game is a foreign concept because they think Square Enix has too much money and can therefore can make a perfect game that solves any and every problem that comes up with no downsides by just throwing money at it.

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Well SE demands more and more money from us via introducing more and more mog station garbage and we keeping buying all that garbage and giving them money, we don't do it so they can burn it on some garbage singleplayer game that nobody cares about, maybe it's about time that we demand them to shut down a lot of side projects and redirect income produced by FFXIV exclusively back into FFXIV?

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Originally Posted by Voidsent-Uchiha

It was planned years ago for them to add company workshops to personal housing on top of FC's, but we haven't heard news of it in recent years so I assume massive backburner due to bigger problems like what happened with viera hats and what not.

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That's not what I meant. I meant let FCs access their workshop outside of housing - like at Cid's workshop, for example. Then those shell FCs that buy up entire wards wouldn't need to have houses, because all they care about for the most part is farming submarines.

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Originally Posted by Brynne

That's not what I meant. I meant let FCs access their workshop outside of housing - like at Cid's workshop, for example. Then those shell FCs that buy up entire wards wouldn't need to have houses, because all they care about for the most part is farming submarines.

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I don't think they'll ever do this as this'll just open up the door for any individual person who uses 3rd party software to using all 160 slots on every service account for submarines as opposed to the restrictions they have due to limited housing. The inflation would ran rampant when you can just gil print on 160 characters and buy a new account and keep infinitely expanding.

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Originally Posted by Voidsent-Uchiha

I don't think they'll ever do this as this'll just open up the door for any individual person who uses 3rd party software to using all 160 slots on every service account for submarines as opposed to the restrictions they have due to limited housing. The inflation would ran rampant when you can just gil print on 160 characters and buy a new account and keep infinitely expanding.

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Well, as I said earlier, it would've only been a bandaid fix anyway. An instanced option for housing is the only solution that would actually address the root problem of demand far exceeding supply.

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Originally Posted by Brynne

Well, as I said earlier, it would've only been a bandaid fix anyway. An instanced option for housing is the only solution that would actually address the root problem of demand far exceeding supply.

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A part of me wonders if the hardware problems with them loading housing items they found out with this update is what shafted the idea of Island Sanctuary being a solution and it ended up being extremely disappointing. I wonder if they knew back then about this problem, and even downscaling it just the current wards instead of every single character wasn't predicted to still be problematic. And then that's when they decided they'd have to try to fix it to some degree because it's hindering too many systems to not be able to load information faster. Maybe in 9.0, the system might be strong enough to make Island Sanctuary what it was supposed to be or lets them upgrade apartments to have similar interiors to houses if we pay more than 500k upfront.

I would suggest that SE does something with people using the FC exploit to have multiple characters per account and more to as well as removal of grandfathering... it alone would free up 100s of housing across all servers to begin with.