Ok so FF14 thank you for trying to fix the housing issue but the problem is the apartments that you made it not a big fix...its not even a real fix. When I saw that new apartment I was like ok nice can't wait. Well I went and bought a new apartment and guess what I did... I went and got rid of it in the very same 30 min. Why you ask well the apartment is nothing but the same size as the rooms in at your FC house, if you have an FC house. And to top it all of to get a room at you FC house it 300,000, and to get a room (not apartment mind you but room) at the "apartment" building is 500,000. Can you say rip off. So to the developers can you please make more housing plots, or more wards, or more locations then at the 3 main cites, or Do like Star Wars online (where I might add I have all 5 houses).
Houses, houses, houses...I want one!
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03-13-2017, 04:05 AMLylix01Houses, houses, houses...I want one!
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03-13-2017, 04:58 AMDustytomeWhy would you get rid of it? That's 500k you just tossed when you could use it for storage of off season items if/when you do get a house! The difference between the apartment and the fc house is that if your fc loses the house for any reason (disband, someone takes over and goes darkside on the fc, fc moves before the moving tool is active) then that room you paid 300k for is gone. You don't get the 300k back. The apartment is yours forever and won't get destroyed. We'll be getting a new housing area in the upcoming expansion so you may want to be prepared for the landrush that ensues sometime after launch when that activate the ability to purchase plots there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lylix01
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03-13-2017, 05:09 AMLylix01
True but I am in one of the biggest guilds on my server. And yes that is 500K gone but I didn't want another room I wanted an apartment. And until they do something more then just a room in another building then I don't think I will be getting a house anytime soon. Hate me all you want for dropping 500K like that but I don't regret it at all, but I do regret getting my hopes up over a fake apartment.
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03-13-2017, 05:21 AMDustytomeI don't hate you over spending your gil how you want, I just know how easy it is to need to stash furniture elsewhere when you do get a house. It's easy to fill in those 50 slots of off-site furniture storage too (I really hate destroying furniture).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lylix01
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03-13-2017, 05:43 AMKnahli
I can't speak for Lamia but I do believe all of the apartments on Balmung are occupied so Lylix possibly might have been doing a favour for anyone who can genuinely appreciate an apartment at least.
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03-13-2017, 06:06 AMLadyKairi
All I have to say is be patient. They add more wards and such when they feel their servers can handle it. Considering they're moving/upgrading the NA servers, I think it's safe to assume that we will be getting more at some point, if not when they add Shirogane housing. So just need to be patient.
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03-13-2017, 07:15 AMLylix01
Shirogane housing? When are they doing that?
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03-13-2017, 07:19 AMMicahZerrshia
I was hoping they would make the apts a minimum, the same square yalmage as a small house.
I don't really care about outside space but I like a big interior, if I could get an apartment with the same square yalmage as a med house but in a single or 2 floors I would be a happy happy camper. But yeah, apartments are basically storage for a lot of ppl.
Shirogane housing is coming in 4.0 or soon after. It's been one of the biggest announcement outside of Samurai in the 4.0 news so far. Go back and check out anything about 4.0 and you should find it. -
03-13-2017, 08:00 AMworldofneilThe extra money is probably for security. With the FC rooms you can lose that at the whim of your FC owner. They can legitimately kick you out, whenever they want, for whatever reason they want and you'll lose the FC room in the progress (or maybe just because they are moving the FC home to a different house, that still requires all rooms to be demolished first).Quote:
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But with the apartment, Square Enix is the equivalent to your landlord and they've said there are no plans for demolitions of apartments so you should be safe with one of those indefinitely. -
03-13-2017, 10:04 PMPenthea
The apartments should be more than just a copy of fc rooms. I expected some sort of balcony where I could do a little gardening and decorating. Nope. Still locked out of cross planting. Yea you get access to a chocobo stable but it's much cheaper to just find a fc with a house and use their one instead.
Apartments are a great idea but they're literally just fc rooms with a chocobo stable. At the very least the rooms should be bigger to make players feel that they have bought an actual place of residence instead of just one room. In their current state they are a rip-off. -
03-14-2017, 03:34 AMBesameI started with a small and an apt. I kept all the xtras I made and bought in the apt in case I upgraded. I recently bought a medium and demolished the small. I was thankful I had those 50 items stored away. Now I am ready for the item expansion woot!Quote:
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03-14-2017, 08:33 AMProjectT
I have a medium house but I got an apartment, too, in a different housing area recently. I like to experiment with interior decorating motifs without changing my house decorations which I'm happy with right now. Like Dustytome and many others, I also like to hang onto furniture in case I want to implement a different interior design idea. I decorated my apartment as a re-create of the Hermit's Hovel with the addition of a comfy chair and an ashtray so I can pick Yoshi-P's brains when he comes to visit.
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03-18-2017, 08:43 AMRymm
The thing that I don't understand is how the OP was surprised by the size of the apartment after she bought it. They've been out for months now and even when I bought mine (I was among the people who logged on and rushed to get one as the servers came up) and I already knew what it was going to look like before before I laid a single gil down. Even if she didn't feel like googling anything about them prior to logging on, she had to go to the apt building to buy hers anyway, and it would have taken all of an extra thirty seconds to pop into one of the unlocked ones and look at what she was paying for.
Was I disappointed when SE unveiled the apartment previews? Yes, quite a bit. Would I love to see more tiers of apartment sizes added (possibly with some sort of balcony/greenhouse) at a range of prices? Absolutely! Bring it on! Do I think an extra 200k gil for an FC-less FC room a ripoff? Not at all. No matter what happens in my FC or if I decide to take a break from the game, my apartment will never be destroyed and I like to think of it as insurance, just like for my car or house irl. And let's be honest, if someone can afford to flush 500k out of frustration because they didn't bother to look before buying, they can afford an extra 200k over the FC price for 'insurance' in the first place.
It's not an issue, we have a lot of empty apartments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knahli
And OP, I feel your pain and frustration about the housing situation. I really do. It took me weeks and weeks of fruitless searching to finally locate a proper house for our FC. Especially when there are several shell FCs/players on our server who own multiple houses, almost all empty. All I can advise you to do is make sure to check the wards at the top of each hour, as that seems to be when they open up. Also, turn up your nose at the apartments all you want, but for me they provided a nice creative outlet and made a good testing ground for the furniture combos and new techniques to get the placement I wanted. It helped a lot and proved a nice distraction for me until we managed to score our FC house.
Good hunting.