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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.