What actual statements has the dev team made about the "housing crisis"?

I am a new player, and I came in for Shadowbringers after technically owning the game for ~2 years. The MMO I played previously had a great housing system, and I heard about how great 14's was and that became a big goal of mine. Like apparently many, I'm incredibly disheartened by how broken the current system is. I pay my sub like everyone else, but I don't have 72 free hours to spam click a placard.

A lot of information about what SE's up to regarding housing is really spread out all over the place. I was just wondering if anyone has a resource that contains actual quotes from the dev team rather than vague paraphrasing?

Similarly, is the most likely option really having to wait another two years for potential new housing with the next expansion? Or is that just pessimistic gossip?

We don't have any concrete info on a new housing zone other than rumors. Zero timeline has been given either. They did say they would be looking over housing after release to see what they could do going forward. I believe it was from one of the last couple live letters, but you'll have to watch through them on twitch or youtube to see exactly how they said it themselves.

There are servers where housing is readily available. You can always purchase someone's FC and inherit from the house attached to it aswell. There are options out there for people who are smart about how they spend their free time...

This "housing crisis" :rolleyes: doesn't seem to affect the Japanese servers. As a result, there hasn't been any announcement regarding potential "relief".

Will SE come out with a new housing area? No one knows.
Will SE add more wards within existing city-states? No one knows.

I don't know where you read that XIV has a great housing system, but you got lied to.

We're not bypassing any rules. It's not our problem if Square Enix quietly removed the temporary restriction on how many FC houses you can own. Literally anyone can go out there and do the exact same thing at this very moment.

Know your stuff.

Gottem! Hahahaha!!!

Threads like this cause so many issues.

Getting upset at someone for not breaking the rules is ridiculous. You should be upset at Square for taking your money and making you angry. You literally pay them to piss you off at this point. You feel everyone should have one house. Square Enix doesn't seem to agree. There is only two tools that can help you. Convey what you are frustrated with, then stop paying SE. That is the point of a free market.

Most people don't like braggarts and those who like to pour salt in wounds. In the end SE handled housing poorly and still is doing so. I guess that's what happens when you take money away from one game to dump elsewhere including cash shop sales I'd wager. At least in FFXI everyone every character had a mog room to decorate in their home nation of choice. Inns were used when you were visiting a different nation. The number of planting pots we could have was limited to our how much "storage" we had in our individual mog rooms, so I don't get the limits for planters honestly.

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Originally Posted by Mew_FC

There are servers where housing is readily available. You can always purchase someone's FC and inherit from the house attached to it aswell. There are options out there for people who are smart about how they spend their free time...

This "housing crisis" :rolleyes: doesn't seem to affect the Japanese servers. As a result, there hasn't been any announcement regarding potential "relief".

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As someone playing on a JP server, yes, it does affect us. I lucked out with my house, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people here miss out consistently. If there's any difference in the availability, it's because less people on JP servers are being self-absorbed in their housing purchases and are happy to just have one.

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As someone playing on a JP server, yes, it does affect us. I lucked out with my house, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people here miss out consistently. If there's any difference in the availability, it's because less people on JP servers are being self-absorbed in their housing purchases and are happy to just have one.

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You were saying? :rolleyes:

I was saying I play on a JP server and there is definitely a housing shortage. GG choosing a low pop server. I play on Tonberry, and regularly update for census on here and there are rarely plots available, and always campers. I know I have it luckier, but high pop is high pop, and the issues are the same. The difference is in the attitudes of the players.

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I was saying I play on a JP server and there is definitely a housing shortage. GG choosing a low pop server. I play on Tonberry, and regularly update for census on here and there are rarely plots available, and always campers. I know I have it luckier, but high pop is high pop, and the issues are the same. The difference is in the attitudes of the players.

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And somehow that makes it so that there's a shortage of houses on every JP server?

You really can't complain about the lack of housing on high pop servers when SE is actively trying to balance server numbers. There are plenty of houses on your data center, free of the hidden timer and at the minimum price. That's miles away from the "housing crisis" that is affecting NA servers.

Your claim regarding the different attitude is quite bold... and unfounded. I'll just point out how there are 32 servers spread across 3 data centers for Japan compared to 24 servers on the North American data centers. That's 34,560 more plots for your side of the pacific ocean. Let that sink in.

I just wish there was a system that didn't get hurt because of High or Low population (so high pop isn't full, and low pop has so many free but could be empty). Someone who's been on a high pop server over the years or just transferred there for friends, or just started should be able to participate with housing (besides just 1 room apartment). I understand working towards it, like gil or even a quest chain (if it was guaranteed or at least a chance for sure like a drop, or heck build the actual house yourself with crafting!), but pure luck based on a system that can be changed due to players nowadays? There's so much work been put into housing and gardening (new items all the time, even the new preview system), and obviously a lot of people love it, I just wish we could all have it, and go back to the housing forum pages asking about housing ideas again instead of so many threads of upset people about the system :(

Who knows, they might already have a fix or something new in the works :) FFXIV dev team have done wonders before, and I believe in them :)

Supposedly there was an interview with kotaku [I don't have the link] where Yoshi explained why they haven't added new wards, which has to do with how the servers themselves are set up, if they add wards to for example Cactuar on Aether, they would need to add wards across all subsequent servers across all of aether. The reason why he's so reluctant to add more wards is because the houses themselves and all wards are not instanced. So if you add across all servers along a data center, you're essentially adding an insane amount of data (as each ward contains 2 zones) which would have adverse effects on the not only the individual server, but the data center. Aether is "technically" the main problem, as like 70% of that entire data center has been congested even before ShB launched and has been for quite some time [Which led to the Balmung purge, that didn't help because the free transfers they gave still kept those players on Aether] only the inside of housing are "instanced"

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This "housing crisis" doesn't seem to affect the Japanese servers. As a result, there hasn't been any announcement regarding potential "relief".

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I'll just point out how there are 32 servers spread across 3 data centers for Japan compared to 24 servers on the North American data centers. That's 34,560 more plots for your side of the pacific ocean. Let that sink in.

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Dont forget the Japanese playerbase is ~80% of the active NA plaerbase too.

SIGNIFICANTLY easier to get a house there.

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Dont forget the Japanese playerbase is ~80% of the active NA plaerbase too.

SIGNIFICANTLY easier to get a house there.

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I was just waiting for him to reply to hammer down more facts. But he's obviously left the building with that deleted post :rolleyes:

"There are some servers with open housing plots so we consider demand fulfilled"