Redo the Housing

Other MMO'S allow player instanced housing, friends can visit and do everything, while all players can own a house. (Guilds included)

ESO housing: To buy land they can use in game currency OR pay using crowns.

I suggest that SE in the interest of all players to destroy the current housing system and implement instanced housing, same for free companies. Refund all players and free companies the Gil and reimbursement for furniture and redo the entire system.

Benefits of instanced housing
-Charge real money or Gil to get it (for people that don't grasp this, means you have two ways of getting the house, you pay the Gil as normal OR pay through mogstation)
All players can work hard and not fight for plots, no selling plots any longer as it's no competition, no need for apartments so you free up that space to allow the instanced housing to work
No monopoly on the plots.
(Current problem) Across realms people made Alts and took up spots.

I feel like it'd make everyone happy if a better system is in place, since ESO has optional membership benefits and we pay we should be able to have similar housing.

Stopped taking you seriously after you asked for them to charge us real money.

Even if you made perfect points for this (you didn't), it's waaaaay too late for that.

I said real or Gil, (we pay for housing with Gil currently, but if they refunded and said it'll all be instanced) everyone wins then.

That's what ESO does and honestly instanced eliminates the need of a monopoly.

You can stop listening, most players want housing and we pay for a sub and ESO has a better system than us.
Which is sad because they went technically free to play
"Too late"
XIVs user agreement says they own everything and we own a temporary sub license, they can do what they want on this issue.

The goal of instance housing is we all get it, we all have that chance, and if you don't have the time or obligation we also can pay to obtain it.

Several individuals and FCs have alternatives that are keeping plots, whereas others can't have a chance to get them.

Housing is instance and does cost gil. What you really want to is to limit housing to one per account and removal of plots, apartment, wards.

Also only one FC can own a house. What you are seeing is a FC that is really broken up into multiple FC that use the same FC tag owning multiple houses. The FC is called FinalFantasy123 (FF123) but one house is owned by FC: FinalFantasy123workshop (FF123), FC: FinalFantasy123gym (FF123), FC: FinalFantasy123lounge (FF123), etc...

No I mean take out wards and each person has an instance once they pay for a house.

Meaning no maximum amounts of plots.

Can't, all FFXIV instance are tied to the Data Center instance server: Dungeons, Trails, solo fights, Raids, interior housing, guildhest, PvP, and so on.

Right and with the wards and apartments removed it frees up space to perhaps improve the data center, they claimed we swapped to a larger one and I think possibly the capacity could fit the changes.

I don't think you understand how instancing works. He wants solo instances to be created for each person's house. Its a system that many games employ and is perfectly viable for FFXIV. It's also the same as the separate instances that are created when entering a FC's house room or an inn room. They are server side not data center wide. Its not in any way impossible to implement this feature but it's an insane amount of work to do so and it wouldn't do a whole lot in terms of practicality. I don't foresee them ever doing this or at least not anytime soon. it would offer very little change for the amount of work that would go in to it. It's a huge overhaul that would cost them thousands of dollars in time that would be better spent on dungeons or other practical content.

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Originally Posted by Dyvid

Housing is instance and does cost gil.

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I am not sure if you are just joking or being serious.

I wouldn't like instanced housing, personally. I love the uniqueness of ffxiv housing and having actual neighbors. Feels more real, to me at least.

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Originally Posted by Raygan

I wouldn't like instanced housing, personally. I love the uniqueness of ffxiv housing and having actual neighbors. Feels more real, to me at least.

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While the wards are nice, everyone having access to the content should be our first priority. Me.and many others are willing to give up the neighborhoods so that this can happen.

I finally got my house, and I NEVER see my neighbors. When I had my apartment, in a full building, I only regularly saw about 3 or 4 of the people there. The neighborhoods are nice to look at, but at that point, they might as well just be NPC houses.

Honestly I'd be happy if going forward all new wards were instanced instead. Keep the old system and do not punish those who bought into it, but create something more workable in the future. They were halfway there with the apartment system and I think making something similar for housing plots would go a long way in alleviating a lot of the aggravation on congested worlds. You don't even have to limit the capability to own chocobo stables or gardens. Simply designate a part of the closed instance for their use, though this would require a unique floor plan, and the rest for indoor items instead. Even an interior garden could work rather well.

Frankly I liked the idea of FF's housing for quite awhile, but with absentee neighbors, horrendous decorating skills (if I see another pink moogle palm I might just have an aneurysm), and more I think it's ended up being something with incredible potential that ended up being exceeding lackluster.