So.. the Animal Corssing-esc. Island Sanctuaries... thoughts and wishes

I want lots of gardening patches!

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

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Originally Posted by Nafreyu

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

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I'd personally take a basic gardening instance for everyone vs. additional wards that will only give new homes to a smidgen of the playerbase.

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Originally Posted by Nafreyu

Actually, the more I think about this. I want to ask why they are wasting resources on instance gardening and pet zones when that could have been additional housing wards.

Either way, I shouldn't get irritated before any announcement anyway as who T F knows what's gonna happen with all this speculation.

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Because apparently right now its way too difficult to just add "more" housing, although I should note Ishgard housing is also coming in 6.1 supposedly, so there will be an increase with that at least. Still just applying bandages to a bleeding wound, though, so maybe they're just hard at working trying to get a permanent solution but are offering these things to sort of placate the playerbase.

I really wonder what's wrong with FFXIV's backend that they cannot do instanced housing. Even New World pulled it off for crying out loud.

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Originally Posted by MidnightEquinox

I really wonder what's wrong with FFXIV's backend that they cannot do instanced housing. Even New World pulled it off for crying out loud.

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Because FFXIV is 10 years old and New World released in last October.

I just hope that Island Sanctuary somehow allows us to farm leathers and other enemy-drops. I have *0* hopes that this is some kind of alternative to housing and I have severe doubts as to the customization we'll even have for preset buildings.

I hope this is a pet sanctuary. I hope this entails retooling mounts and minions to be usable as companions in battle. I hope companions get rebalanced to work in casual duties like dungeons and normal raids/trials. I hope this means the death of all BST speculation because having an entire FARM of animals I can use is way better than limiting myself to a BST job.

If there's gardening too, that's fine too I guess. Fleurs.

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Originally Posted by Maxilor

Because FFXIV is 10 years old and New World released in last October.

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The New World point wasn't the strongest, but it's not like decent housing is a brand new feature to MMOs. There are other games, created around the time of XIV, that have far better housing systems in place. XIV is just continually slapping Band-aids on their housing, and it kinda sucks.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

The New World point wasn't the strongest, but it's not like decent housing is a brand new feature to MMOs. There are other games, created around the time of XIV, that have far better housing systems in place. XIV is just continually slapping Band-aids on their housing, and it kinda sucks.

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Oh I agree with you. The fact that the FFXIV Dev Team has managed to make such a fantastic game on the rotten bones of 1.0 is a miracle.

An engine/infrastructure update is badly needed, but there are plenty of interviews by YoshiP of him explaining why that is out of the question.