Paid housing

May be an unpopular opinion, but paid housing would allow square enix to obtain more server space to improve housing?

but I guess this can be considered as pay to win :confused:

Mao would quit game if this happens.

Ill pass, that's just giving them a reason to start carving up the game and selling it la carte. Id rather not see that.

The blowback from the playerbase would be severe if housing ever went for sale on the mog station.

It's already paid housing when you must have a subscription to even bid on one since trial players can't bid on any because of the hard cap of 300k Gil alone.

This sounds like it would be an idea from someone that doesn't have their desired plot. It's also a terrible idea too, paying the subscription covers that already.

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Originally Posted by Solowing

Ill pass, that's just giving them a reason to start carving up the game and selling it la carte. Id rather not see that.

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they already do. You can buy your way to dawntrail and level all the way to 90 with a card swipe.

Honestly, trial players are playing a trial only, so yea, they should not ahve access to all the features or aspects of the game. I would hate to see what it would be like if trial players were also competing for the limited available housing plots.

Otherwise, I do not feel paid housing is a good way to go. You know the phrase "slippery slope". Not a good thing.

Sure, just look at all they did with the mog store money...

Honestly they could add an instanced housing system to supplement the existing wards, and there’s no reason it should be a paid service, unless they want to charge a small, retainer-like fee for additional, multiple homes.

Other MMOs that don’t even require a subscription have multiple sizes and varieties of instanced housing. Most are free, only the more elaborate ones are cash shop.

At this point, I’ve lowered my wish list to an instanced plot where everything works the same as a ward plot, but where you can customize the background scenery and size at will. Since I already have a ward plot, I would be fine paying an extra dollar a month on my sub if I really had to, to get that. I don’t really think it should have a fee, but definitely not if it’s someone’s only plot, since ward owners don’t have to pay extra for their one personal/one FC per server.

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Originally Posted by Kiritokiraguya

"paid housing would allow square enix to obtain more money"

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fixed it for you.

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Originally Posted by Kurbb

they already do. You can buy your way to dawntrail and level all the way to 90 with a card swipe.

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Thank God, I can't level another character through ARR anymore. I want to deck out another apt but I really don't wanna redo the quests after I've done them on ny main.

Absolutely not.

The issue isn't money. Raw income from FFXIV alone eclipses everything else that SE does combined.

The issue is poor management of said money, being funneled into worthless projects that explode on the runway without even getting the chance to get off the ground.

The only thing that will make the game better is them getting less money. As it currently stands, the game is on track to be in maintenance mode by 9.0, because people will keep playing even when it sucks because of their houses or the community.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

The issue isn't money. Raw income from FFXIV alone eclipses everything else that SE does combined.

The issue is poor management of said money, being funneled into worthless projects that explode on the runway without even getting the chance to get off the ground.

The only thing that will make the game better is them getting less money. As it currently stands, the game is on track to be in maintenance mode by 9.0, because people will keep playing even when it sucks because of their houses or the community.

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I'm pretty sure Yoshi-P said the game will get another decade of expansions for the second saga that just started with DT. I just hope they don't pull him away for other projects like FFXVI for example. Yeah, I agree that my sub will remain active for many years to come because of my homes that I worked very hard to get them both.

Housing shouldn't be something you pay extra for because the system of obtaining one is crap.