Housing Suggestions and Account Changes

Below are some suggestions I have been thinking about and feel would be fair across the board. These are some things I would consider if I owned FFXIV.

1. Allow a rotation of sunrise and sunset in both divisions. Every other cycle of day and night change it from sunrise to sunset. Then when we have other events still add in those fireworks. Mix it up a bit maybe during each season (spring, summer, fall, winter) we get different elements like northern lights during the winter or rainbows during the summer for example. Keep adding snow for just the month of December or some leaves falling for Fall. Just some ideas to keep the environment you’re in interesting regardless which housing district you reside in. You could choose to theme out the elements for each housing district like fireflies flying around in lavender. You can make lavender similar to the movie Avatar with the tree of life and other elements however I’d keep the sunrise and sunset and fireworks the same throughout all housing districts.

2. Regular division would be FC only for all wards and Subdivision would be Private houses in all wards (vice versa). This would keep a fair amount available for each FC and private house players. It wouldn’t matter which division you get because you’d still be able to enjoy the same cycle and element changes. This would eliminate people craving for a Lavender 41 or a Shirogane 60 because you can get the same experience with a Lavender 11 or Shirogane 30.

OR to sweeten the pot, just combine the FC and private houses into one. Make all houses private but can be later upgraded into an FC but make the requirements the same for owning a private house. So, at any time you can upgrade from a “Private” to a “Free Company”. If you want to upgrade to an FC, then you can include those requirements to own an FC. You wouldn’t need to worry so much about how many people put in for a plot if you remove the lottery system and implement instance housing.

3. Allow the houses to become instance housing like Elder Scrolls Online. If you currently own a house, then yours gets turned into instance housing. Everyone can own 8 FCs and 8 Private houses per world since you are limited to 8 characters OR just 8 houses in general that you choose which of the 8 get upgraded from a private house to an FC. Ward owners would go away since all houses will be instance. When people are online the wards will be dynamic - always changing who your neighbor will be based on who is logged in and locked into that plot slot for the time being. I would still allow grandfathered accounts to avoid upsetting those players or penalizing them for being able to own that many during those current times in the past. This is more so for new players moving forward.

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4. Allow everyone to start out with a small house. As you progress in game you can upgrade your house to a medium then to a large and then to a mega large. For those who already have existing houses of a particular size can keep them or choose to opt into the new changes that take effect. You can capitalize on this by allowing custom-built houses and you can keep the standard modeled homes that SE offers for others to choose from.

5. Allow you to place your house on the market board to sell if you no longer want it and want to move to another server. But SE is to set the price for that. If you want to put up a small house for sell that is empty, then it will be the same price to sell as it was for you to purchase it. If you have a house that is professionally decorated and I’m not talking about throwing in a few pieces of furniture I mean true decorations like from “Bright Dancer” for example, then that price will be an increase because you will be purchasing the house fully furnished. Your options will be to place an empty plot with no house (unfurnished) on the market board or to place a plot that is fully furnished with a house and professionally decorated. By having SE set these prices it keeps it fair and eliminates those from wanting to price gouge. You will be required to include a photo of the placard and photos of the house. If an ad doesn’t meet the standards, then it can be reported to a GM in game to resolve. If SE doesn’t want to do this, then all houses are to be added with an empty plot (unfurnished) on the market board to sell, and you can find your own designer later to decorate your house.

6. Expanding on 5, allow services to be added to the market board as it’s more organized. You can have a decorator offer to decorate your house for a fee. There should be a rating system so people can leave feedback on their work. You will be able to view their feedback from others and view the work they’ve done. Maybe someone is great at gardening, and you want to hire a gardener. Same with those who are an expert in submarines in a workshop.

7. Demolition timer would go away since houses would become instance allowing you to take a break at any time and not have to worry about finding your house gone.

Other account suggestions:

8. To prevent Gil sellers from the black market, SE should have their own in game micro transactions for gil they can offer to sell to players. Make the prices fair and not so overpriced like the shark cards in GTA. Make it like Lost Ark where it’s safe to purchase gil from the developers in game. The money from the micro transactions can be used to put toward implementing other features that would require more servers and resources on those servers for instance housing. We know that the island housing is instance and takes up a lot of resources on their servers. I'm surprised SE doesn't raise our monthly subscriptions to accommodate for such expenses on their end to make us happy.

9. Allow you to change your name, date of birth and username for all SE accounts. Other businesses allow this, and you can even add a $10 charge for changing information.
Allow ownership of accounts to be changed and documented. Have a safe process in place for this where both the original owner and new owner are on a 3-way phone call with the SE support reps. Maybe even require the original owner and new owner to provide a notarized document of the account ownership change so SE won’t be held liable. As we get older, we may want to pass down the account to our children or other family members who may also want to change the account information to theirs.
Selling of accounts are going to happen in the black market regardless but to help prevent scammers from reclaiming accounts on honest buyers, allow the account information to be completely changed. This will avoid and cut down scamming a lot. Set a limit on how many times you can make this change per year to avoid others from taking advantage of the system. Have these changes documented in the mogstation account. You are also giving people freedom to change their account information fully. SE always gives the account back to the original owner and that original owner could very well be a scammer who keeps reclaiming the account and scamming others over and over. So, to be fair and prevent fraud from account sales that will happen regardless, at least allow account changes for honest buyer’s sake. I understand people want to sell their accounts for various legit reasons especially if they need the money like during Covid times, but you will have those whose intentions are to scam others. I’ve heard too many horror stories of people getting scammed. You should only purchase the account from the original owner and then go through the change of ownership process.

10. One Time passcodes should only be allowed to be set with a notary. They should not be allowed to be deleted without a notary from the true owner of the account. What is the point of adding a one time passcode when a scammer who knows some information on you can create a support ticket that you have no knowledge about as the system doesn’t email the email address on the mogstation account saying a ticket was created on behalf of your account. Was this you? Then the scammer removes the one time passcode so they can then get into your account to do damage. This will help prevent people’s accounts from being compromised. So, it’s best everyone gets a one time passcode on their account. If you choose not to then yes, you risk your account being vulnerable. If you are the true owner of an account with your true information on the account then by adding a one time passcode, your account should never be compromised as a one time passcode shouldn’t be easy to be removed by SE support.

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Originally Posted by Seminole

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8. To prevent Gil sellers from the black market, SE should have their own in game store of gil they can offer to sell to players. Make the prices fair and not so overpriced like the shark cards in GTA. Make it like Lost Ark where it’s safe to purchase gil from the developers in game.

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No.

You must be a gil seller lol @Raraka

I cant even reach 3 mil to join house lottery due to my crippling glam adiction

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Originally Posted by Seminole

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8. To prevent Gil sellers from the black market, SE should have their own in game store of gil they can offer to sell to players. Make the prices fair and not so overpriced like the shark cards in GTA. Make it like Lost Ark where it’s safe to purchase gil from the developers in game.

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Absolutely not. No P2W.

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Originally Posted by Seminole

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8. To prevent Gil sellers from the black market, SE should have their own in game store of gil they can offer to sell to players. Make the prices fair and not so overpriced like the shark cards in GTA. Make it like Lost Ark where it’s safe to purchase gil from the developers in game.

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The only way to stop Gil sellers is to make Gil untradable, which can't be done as it would require the elimination of the MB as well, as it's based on the tradability of Gil. It's the primary method of moving Gil around from seller to buyer since they implemented the trade cap on P2P trades so It would have to go. What do you think those everyday items on the MB priced at 999 million Gil (or whatever) are for? Not only that but even if SE did make it untradable Gil sellers would just start selling tradable in game assets like crafted gear, mats, food, and medicines. Basically anything SE could do would be countered easily. As for implementing a legal Gil sale? Feck no, that would alienate a MASSIVE number of players whose sole enjoyment is crafting, gathering, and the sale of such assets on the MB. In addition we'd now have a P2W game which would alienate another portion of players. People ask for this kind of thing once in a while and I can only think that they don't fully understand the game and its playerbase. From a game publishers standpoint P2W/F2P games have a huge allure due to insane profit margins, but imo they prey upon the whales with no self control. SE has a large, mostly happy base that willingly pays a monthly sub, not to mention the cash shop for cosmetics etc. I hope they don't fall into that F2P/P2W trap as I know I'd be out within the hour and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.

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Originally Posted by Arrhin

The only way to stop Gil sellers is to make Gil untradable, which can't be done as it would require the elimination of the MB as well, as it's based on the tradability of Gil. It's the primary method of moving Gil around from seller to buyer since they implemented the trade cap on P2P trades so It would have to go. What do you think those everyday items on the MB priced at 999 million Gil (or whatever) are for? Not only that but even if SE did make it untradable Gil sellers would just start selling tradable in game assets like crafted gear, mats, food, and medicines. Basically anything SE could do would be countered easily. As for implementing a legal Gil sale? Feck no, that would alienate a MASSIVE number of players whose sole enjoyment is crafting, gathering, and the sale of such assets on the MB. In addition we'd now have a P2W game which would alienate another portion of players. People ask for this kind of thing once in a while and I can only think that they don't fully understand the game and its playerbase. From a game publishers standpoint P2W/F2P games have a huge allure due to insane profit margins, but imo they prey upon the whales with no self control. SE has a large, mostly happy base that willingly pays a monthly sub, not to mention the cash shop for cosmetics etc. I hope they don't fall into that F2P/P2W trap as I know I'd be out within the hour and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.

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Just think about it. What do Gil sellers need to succeed? They need Gil buyers. So if SE offers micro transactions for in game gil to be purchased through them like other game developers have implemented in their games, it would then make others buy from SE and not from the gil sellers. Also if you are personally still against this idea, your option is to not buy the micro transactions from SE. But others may want to take advantage of this feature and it wouldn't be bad if they did as it would be allowed. Just like the lottery system took away business from the black market selling houses for gil and/or money. SE crippled that black market. It also crippled the bots clicking at housing placards. So why not give some players what they want which is gil and they can buy it safely and not get banned or scammed for it and it would be coming directly from SE if they chose to implement micro transactions for gil in game. Easy fix and trust me it would resolve the issue with that black market. These are ideas I have been thinking of if SE is on board to put them in place. If not then unfortunately nothing will be resolved.

As for your P2W - they already offer potions to do level and story skips so.....