In Defence of Housing

As someone with a house, mine is in the Mists and have had the small house for months now, I am with everyone who is salty right now. It is content that you are locked out of if you don't have a house. It isn't game changing content mind you, but it us content. The whole housing thing is a huge issue when people can buy multiple houses and then flip them for profit. When you have a system that allows that then it is a terrible system. I will continue to offer my home to my friends as best I can, but things need to change.

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Originally Posted by Moogly

My sub gives me access to content. I did lots to save enough gils for a medium plot. But I am not allowed access because of an artificial scarcity

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Loot drops and critical hits are also artificial scarcity. You haven't been disallowed content, you just haven't been lucky yet.

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Originally Posted by Moogly

it shouldnt be that hard to add more wards.

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Agree 100%. They should be adding new wards. No excuse.

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Originally Posted by Moogly

Difficulty as a barrier for content is totally fine. But in the case of housing, I did overcame the barrier (saving gils) but I am refused the content

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I ran Arboretum 46 times before my coat dropped. I had BiS gear, unlocked the dungeon - why didn't I get what I wanted the first time?

The barrier to housing isn't simply getting the money, any more than the barrier to getting the loot you want is unlocking a dungeon. There's still a measure of luck involved. If everyone could get it that easily, it'd lose its' value.

Wich compagny implent a game feature where you must take a days-off your job just in order to have a tiny chance to be able to use the feature ?

the awnser is SE.

You want it that badly? Then you should've paid someone to get you one while you were at work.

Simple means to an end.

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Originally Posted by AngryPanda

You want it that badly? Then you should've paid someone to get you one while you were at work.

Simple means to an end.

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Lol your right. A feature is perfectly implented when you must pay someone to get it done (well for a chance too)

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Originally Posted by AngryPanda

You want it that badly? Then you should've paid someone to get you one while you were at work.

Simple means to an end.

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Even a SMALL bump in latency at the precise SECOND the servers went up meant you were left without a house. That had nothing to do with being able to be online at the time.

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Originally Posted by Starflake

I see some faces in here saying being subscribed does entitle you to a house while in the thread about accessibility of super savage

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The issue isn't that it exists in the game or is hard to get to. You'd have an argument if they only allowed a certain amount of people into savage per server.

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Originally Posted by Kohdo

Loot drops and critical hits are also artificial scarcity. You haven't been disallowed content, you just haven't been lucky yet.

I ran Arboretum 46 times before my coat dropped. I had BiS gear, unlocked the dungeon - why didn't I get what I wanted the first time?

The barrier to housing isn't simply getting the money, any more than the barrier to getting the loot you want is unlocking a dungeon. There's still a measure of luck involved. If everyone could get it that easily, it'd lose its' value.

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You're also comparing apples and oranges. Now, if there were only a certain amount of players who could crit, and that depended on who "critted first", you'd have a point. If there were only a certain amount of coats from the Arboretum, and once those were gone you could only get one if someone discarded theirs, you'd have a point. That's not the case.

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Originally Posted by Kohdo

Loot drops and critical hits are also artificial scarcity. You haven't been disallowed content, you just haven't been lucky yet.

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Not at all.
Rotations are pretty much like constantly playing a little dice game, like how you played in RPG books way long ago.
I get my crits and loots if I win at that little lottery type game : that's fair.

Housing is content - even more, since it actually gives you access to other content unaccessible otherwise (gardening, airship...).
It is not available, not because I cannot overcome the difficulty, but because I am told it is out of stock... even though it is highly promoted.

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Originally Posted by Kohdo

The barrier to housing isn't simply getting the money, any more than the barrier to getting the loot you want is unlocking a dungeon. There's still a measure of luck involved. If everyone could get it that easily, it'd lose its' value.

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I do not see how luck is involved in this...
Why couldn't I login in time to get a house ?
- slow download -> about a hour to download the 1.7 GB patch
- client version check bug -> hopefully reddit had a fix... wait reddit, not SE ?!!
And I never said that unlocking a dungeon should automatically earn me my loots :s
People in here have a funny way of reinterpretating other people's toughts :/
The barrier in PVE is difficulty, isn't that clear enough ?

You cannot compare the housing and looting systems as they have nothing in common in anyway I could think of...
"Luck" and RNG has absolutely nothing to do with housing... In gardening, looting, damage dealing, OK, but housing ?!!!
You're not making any point honestly...

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Originally Posted by Kohdo

You have access to the same housing market as everyone else. If you have the gil, and you're searching for a house in the same market, you have access to all the same game features as anyone else searching for a house. If they happen to get to it first, and you miss out, too bad.



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Why should it be? Housing should have been left to FCs alone the apartments make personnel housing fairly redundant anyway

In the case, that everybody could get a House.
Houses would only lose its value, for people who only see a value in Houses based on the feeling, that other people might feel envy about their Houses.