Personal Housing Accessability

Just curious how the housing markets are looking on your servers. Its been almost 2 days since the patch went live and I would suspect that by now most of the plots have sold and wanted to mention that not everyone has a problem with the house prices. I had commented in a couple threads already but it was very quickly lost in the flood of arguments.

Regardless of what people interpreted the cost of personal houses should be, to me, is irrelevant to the actual issue with how the Personal housing was implemented. Gil does not bother me, I can earn that in the game. So can everyone else.

What really bothers me is will I even be able to GET a house once I saved up the money for one? I could have 5 billion gil in my pockets for a house but it wont matter a lick if all the plots are sold. That is my major concern. I don't know what methods they are using to determine how many plots they need available to meet housing needs VS how many housing servers they can physically provide. They might actually get to a point where there will always be more than enough space.

Inevitably space will become available, between people dropping from the game or more wards added, but was going with wards really the best way to implement? Slower, more casual players like me would like to know that once they meet the in game requirements (Gil, GC rank, Level) that a housing plot will be awaiting them.

Maybe I misunderstood how they planned to implement this. While it is nice to have the FC housing set up in large communal wards like this, Personal Housing did not need to be done using the same system. Its nice to know that i can get a massive personal house but I really hoped for a housing system like in the White Knight Chronicles or even the kind of personal Personal Houses they had in FFXI.

I just feel that the people complaining about the cost of the houses are missing the real problem as I see it. If I'm completely out to lunch, fair enough. Sorry for adding more vitriol to the already touchy subject.

I do want to say that I love the game and this is not a game breaker for me. I will still try for a house and I really do hope that my concern is unjustified. I guess it will depend on how many more wards they add in for 2.4 If its just another 2 or 3 wards, that will fill up quickly. I guess time will tell.

See you in game!

In short, it looks pretty grim on Balmung and, from what I've heard, the other legacy servers too.

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Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

In short, it looks pretty grim on Balmung and, from what I've heard, the other legacy servers too.

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Ya, Balmung is a very populated server and is almost always locked down for CHR creation. Legacy servers are for sure going to be full of players with a ton of gil and nothing to spend it on (I just really suck so even though I have a 1.0 account, I dont have much gil).

Diabolos has plots open on Goblet for as far as you can see!

i guess my beef is basically that the personal houses can sell out. It's fine for the FC housing but not personal housing.

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Originally Posted by MageBlack

I could have 5 billion gil

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If you have 5 billion gil pst because my house just became for sale XD

Kidding, though. Kind of. I do think it should be more widely available. I was looking forward to this so much and got very disappointed in it.

Masamune have Grid and LL houses sold out within the first 20mins the servers came online...

this is why I think they should include a type of Personal House that doesn't require owning a land like a Personal Apartment (with a nice small balcony for out door housing stuff)

While maybe adding a Personal Private Island for players that want a Larger more open spaced Private Personal Housing for housing that isn't limited to amount of land avaliable in a Server. Of course Private Island will be expensive since it a person's own Private Island.

There will never, ever, no matter what, be enough houses for everybody on the server. unless SE adds 100+ wards and keep adding more every major patch.

All they had to do was make private housing instanced like FC rooms.

I'll just leave this here : https://i.imgur.com/g1Zcr2L.png

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Originally Posted by Lawndart

I'll just leave this here : https://i.imgur.com/g1Zcr2L.png

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Interesting. I get that they are limited by the technology and servers but if they knew this would be an issue, why did the continue with this gameplan and not come up with a more cost effective method? Something that would take a smaller digital footprint to make? Part of it might be that they didnt expect to have this amount of support and this many players, especially after the 1.0 fiasco.

Personal housing was implemented horribly, not going to candy coat it.

Although I was fortunate to buy one in time, it is really not right that so many players could not.
Whether it was due to cost or availability, either is just as important and should have been foreseen easily by se, any player could have seen it if we were told before implementation of the design...but we were kept in the dark as usual.

I was hoping a modern mmo would have adopted something like Rifts dimension system, it is far far far superior in complexity, immersion, customization and overall size then anything here in ffxiv :(
Very disappointed about that.

Considering they have adapted a very basic and limited housing design, it would have been really nice if they, at the very least , provided enough plots at reasonable prices to accommodate all players. If current design cant handle that then its time to totally revamp and get it right.

Limitations is not the customers fault nor should it be their concern, that's SE job to eliminate. It is impossible that they could not foresee the current housing issues as a disaster.

I do hope for every ones sake they do a lot more then simply double plot availability , that will fix nothing. If they were wise its time to seriously invest and expand their capabilities. Games that are far older should not have superior capabilities....but sadly, they do.