Housing is Ridiculous

Shirogane was cleaned out instantly on Cactaur. To add insult to injury the log in button stayed red for like 6min when i went to log in then got a 900002 right before I got in and got stuck in queue all over again. All that on top of the taking forever to zone in >=T


At this rate doesnt look like I'm ever owning a house
Why cant we get more Wards since there's far more players now????

"Never owning a house" is precisely why I'm unsubbing. I don't agree with giving money to a company that doesn't acknowledge this as a problem. House decorating is my favorite thing to do, and I had been subbed for a couple months just in anticipation for waiting to buy a house.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ill-more-Wards I tried ask GMs before..... now happened it's not fair so far :((

Well I'll be angry with you. It's all I can do. The housing in this game is so <expletive> dumb it's now put me off of even playing this game and now I'm considering unsubbing. I spent weeks upon weeks mining to get the money to pay for the house only to get a giant middle finger because i couldn't be one of the first 30 people to log onto the sever.

It's your decision, but unsubbing will get the message across more tbh. It would be amazing if we could stage a blackout, but a game like this I don't really see it happening.

Not long ago I watched a recent video of a guy exploring FFXIV for the very first time. After spending some time exploring the housing wards he commented that it was "the best housing he had ever seen."

And perhaps that is true... if you don't look beyond the surface. In reality, the current system is highly impractical.

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Originally Posted by Calisto

It's your decision, but unsubbing will get the message across more tbh. It would be amazing if we could stage a blackout, but a game like this I don't really see it happening.

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My husband and I already un-subbed due to this. 3 years and no FC house. Try and try again yet nothing to show for it. When a Free to play game can do something so simple better than a sub game there is more than just some minor issues going on.

So many MMOs have instanced housing. No one cares about seeing the neighbors house in front of your own. Make them instanced. Allow us to invite people to the House if they are in a party with you. Call it done. This will allow anyone who wants to buy a house to get a house.

Make Houses Small, medium and Large houses instanced. Get rid of these Housing Communities. Half the time No one is around the housing area to begin with. Its funny cause in my server my housing ward is empty as hell. I see maybe 2 - 3 people in it a week.

Needs to be better handled. I had a house early on when personals came along because I was ready and hopeful for its release. Saved up enough with me and 1 friend to try to get our small house to a large. Not even a chance in shirogane much less older locations. After all not like many had to give up their space.

Either it needs to get a steady stream of housing wards built up between patches for the subs you guys have that stick around after this, or something needs to be revamped like seperation between personal and FC at the least without needing to add more wards but still “double” the housing.

Sorry for any errors in my writing I was up all night to try for this to only get shut down in under 25 mins in diabolos and having some people act horribly such as the very first 1 laughing at me because I check for the house. Damn me for trying people. Feel the salt SE, feel the salt.

Adding more wards is not going to do anything. They would need to add exact for exact housing for each player in the game. Which is wasteful over just making it instanced. Sorry to say but I know a lot of people who really do not care about having a neighbor next to them. The current housing community is broken. No one is around. 90% of the houses are locked out so you cant go in and see. So why even have a housing community you cant share and explore. I have an FC house. I have a private house. I have an Apartment. They need to expand it more than just adding wards. They need to make it so EVERY single person can purchase a house and every single FC has a Medium or Large house at least. In the current set up it would require hundreds of wards. They need to redo the system. They need to limit Personal Housing to 1 per account. Not 1 per character. and Allow FC housing to exist in their own Separate instanced Wards if they want to go that Route.

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Instanced Housing will kill that community effect feature which BTW the housing community is one of the things that make FFXIV unique from other games. Besides we already have a form of instanced housing it's called apartments, and last time I checked you weren't our spokesperson either so don't say " No one cares about seeing the neighbors house in front of your own" k?. One of the solutions here is they need to add more wards. The FFXIV team invested in housing recipes, features, and wards eliminating them is just redundant which they won't do because then they'll lose all that money they invested.

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I don't care about seeing anyone's ugly yards, lmao. I just want a damn house. And no, apartments aren't acceptable. They're as small as an FC room. If they can't crack down on people flipping, and if they can't add immensely more wards to the system to support the playerbase, then instances are what we need. Sorry, not sorry.

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Originally Posted by Doxt

I don't care about seeing anyone's ugly yards, lmao. I just want a damn house. And no, apartments aren't acceptable. They're as small as an FC room. If they can't crack down on people flipping, and if they can't add immensely more wards to the system to support the playerbase, then instances are what we need. Sorry, not sorry.

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That was not my quote :P (wow the quote system is even broken lol

I agree. Housing needs to be redone. FC housing needs to be instanced. Why gate content behind FC housing that no one else can use.

I find it pretty frustrating too... could only connect an hour after maintenance due to slow internet in downloading the patch... and after having beforehand struggled with the version check bug !
Heard from FC mates that managed to login earlier that all lots were gone in less than 10 minutes :(

Aside from buying more servers to hold the charge, I dont understand why they wont add more wards ?
Also for slower connections, why not allow patch download during maintenance, or make some kind of patch predownloading functionnality ?
We wont be able to ever beat people on 100Mb internet, downloading the patch in less than 10 minutes !

This is where all the houses gone:

Housing market: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousingmarket/
500 million gil large in Shirogane: https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVhousin...irogane_w1p30/