Question About Housing

I haven't been following Shadowbringers news very well, so bear that in mind while I ask this question:

Does anyone know if they said anything about adding new housing areas with this expansion? Not additional wards to the existing areas, but completely new areas? I'm getting close to having enough for a small plot, and I'm weighing my options (or lack thereof).

There have been teasers that Ishgard will be a new housing district, but will only be enabled after certain amount of contributions from disciple of hand and land has been met, ala doman enclave style.

Ooooh, yes. I like Ishgard and I'm all about crafting and gathering.

I could not find the exact article where it was briefly mentioned, but i believe it was in one of the Q&A from the FFXIV fanfest.

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Originally Posted by ERMITANYO

There have been teasers that Ishgard will be a new housing district, but will only be enabled after certain amount of contributions from disciple of hand and land has been met, ala doman enclave style.

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No, there was never a mention of housing district reguarding the reconstruction of Ishgard. Players assumed it would be about housing and everyone now believes it will be.

There is almost no information as to what the reconstruction of Ishgard is going to be about, but housing was never mentioned once. Please do not spread information like that, people will believe it and everything will blow up when it will be revealed that it was completely something else.
I too wish there would be more housing, but this was never mentioned nor confirmed anywhere.

Please see link: https://youtu.be/osM49XVWOX8

Lets hope after shadow bringers settles down this follows.

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Originally Posted by ERMITANYO

Please see link: https://youtu.be/osM49XVWOX8

Lets hope after shadow bringers settles down this follows.

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It dosen't confirm anything. Meoni says it was 'hinted', but this video goes back almost a year and nothing as been mentioned as of today about this.

I too hope there will be more housing, all I am saying is to not spread false information that wasn't confirmed by the devs. It's just like the male viera, female hrothgar thing ; everyone will firmly believe it will be housing, even thought it was never confirmed, and if it isn't, everything will explode.
If it does because housing, then good :) Just don't say it as a confirmed thing for now.

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Originally Posted by ERMITANYO

Please see link: https://youtu.be/osM49XVWOX8

Lets hope after shadow bringers settles down this follows.

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Just gonna say... This is the same kind of thinking that made people loose thier minds when Male Vieras didnt happen.

Well let's hope for the best that the teaser materializes

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Originally Posted by DarkMasamune

It dosen't confirm anything. Meoni says it was 'hinted', but this video goes back almost a year and nothing as been mentioned as of today about this.

I too hope there will be more housing, all I am saying is to not spread false information that wasn't confirmed by the devs. It's just like the male viera, female hrothgar thing ; everyone will firmly believe it will be housing, even thought it was never confirmed, and if it isn't, everything will explode.
If it does because housing, then good :) Just don't say it as a confirmed thing for now.

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It would have been a really random remark if it wasn't intended as a hint at housing plans. The lack of comment since then doesn't bother me since I wouldn't expect any substantial upgrades to the current housing system to occur until 5.1 at the earliest. There are still several things about the expansion they've only recently started to mention with more to get unveiled during the E3 live letter.

I'm hoping it doesn't mean a new housing district, though. The ward system has too many drawbacks, with one of the primary ones being that it can't be expanded on a per world basis as demand increases. I'm hoping for an improved instanced housing system that will have room for everyone regardless of what world they play on.

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Originally Posted by kidalutz

Just gonna say... This is the same kind of thinking that made people loose thier minds when Male Vieras didnt happen.

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SE never said anything about male Viera, though.

The comment at the NA FanFest opening address goes out of the way to acknowledge they know that players have been wanting to live in Ishgard. If they didn't want players to get the idea that housing might be coming, there would have been no reason to mention or that the Reconstruction would have to happen first. They could have left any reference to housing out completely.

Anyhow, it’s a «*wait and see*» situation. :)

So will the 5.1 patch after Shadowbringers be around October? Did they confirm if we get any housing zones

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Originally Posted by shaiel

So will the 5.1 patch after Shadowbringers be around October? Did they confirm if we get any housing zones

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No confirmation yet. Still Ishgard rumor-ish? In 5.1 the Ishgard reconstruction will commence (according to this), but we don't know if housing is directly tied to it.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

No confirmation yet. Still Ishgard rumor-ish? In 5.1 the Ishgard reconstruction will commence (according to this), but we don't know if housing is directly tied to it.

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Ok, thank you so much! I didn't watch the live letter properly so I didn't know. Fingers crossed for ishgard housing and more availability!

I might be remembering the live letter wrong, but all that i recall being said was that they would look into housing after the expack launched. So 5.1 is the earliest i would expect anything.

Yah after the last bit of info, Ishgard housing seems to be dead, and anything to do with instance housing. They said they would look into adding new wards after the chaos from release died down.

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Originally Posted by Azurith

Yah after the last bit of info, Ishgard housing seems to be dead, and anything to do with instance housing. They said they would look into adding new wards after the chaos from release died down.

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I don't think it means that Ishgard is dead. From what hints they had dropped our way during the FanFests, it was sounding like Ishgard wasn't going to happen until the tail end of Shadowbringers (reconstruction had to happen first and that was going to be spread out over several patches, etc.).

As for instanced housing, outside of years old statements that they weren't in favor of a fully instanced housing system I don't think they've ever talked about it. They mentioned last year that they were discussing the possibility of adding in some size options to apartments but that's it as far as I know for recent discussion. Talk of instanced housing has been more speculation and hope on the part of players than any statements shared by SE.

I think all that happened during the live letter was an acknowledgment that the housing situation needs some help sooner not later, though they have to wait until the expansion is released to work on it. They also never specifically said wards (unless that didn't get translated) though unless they have something else in development it seems like adding more wards is probably the quickest thing they could implement to help out the situation.

They did specify they were looking into adding *wards* with regard to housing. And mentioned nothing about Ishgard, as far as I know Ishgard housing is only a rumor based on an off hand comment from Yoshi. I actually hope I'm wrong cuz I *really* want Ishgard housing.

All I know is Yoshi P plans on addressing housing issues once more after the launch of Shadowbringers. No mention of Ishgard Housing.