Housing in this game is terrible. I quit trying.

Turned my account off today. I really loved this game. The only thing that is totally impossible to get is a house. I have wasted so much time on this game trying to get a house. Its the only thing that I cannot do. You make it impossible. I finally give up. Its a complete waste of my time and money. Bye, enjoy a houseless game.

Why not transfer to one of the new worlds on the Dynamis DC (its free) and bid on one of the many plots still available?

It won't cost you any money and right now there is still many large plots with 0 bids (bidding just ended, too), not to mention thousands of mediums.

Just saying, if it causes you to quit, then what do you have to lose.

This post smells of baiting.

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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

Why not transfer to one of the new worlds on the Dynamis DC (its free) and bid on one of the many plots still available?

It won't cost you any money and right now there is still many large plots with 0 bids (bidding just ended, too), not to mention thousands of mediums.

Just saying, if it causes you to quit, then what do you have to lose.

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I dunno why they are so against this idea, I understand not wanting to move their mains but they could do what I did and create an alt if they don't have one already and have them buy a home on one of the new worlds on Dynamis that still has mansion plots.


While they fight over for a small with dozens of bids on their crowded worlds, I will enjoy my cup of tea on my spacious front yard at my dream Shiro mansion in Seraph when I did what you suggested two years ago when Seraph first went live. It's better to have a home than none and makes trying to get a home for your main much less stressful as happened to me when my og main Rinoa finally won her own personal mansion in Exodus after trying for 7 years this past June :3


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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

Why not transfer to one of the new worlds on the Dynamis DC (its free) and bid on one of the many plots still available?

It won't cost you any money and right now there is still many large plots with 0 bids (bidding just ended, too), not to mention thousands of mediums.

Just saying, if it causes you to quit, then what do you have to lose.

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I'd love to see you abandon your FC, everything you've worked for and earned on your home world, and pack up and leave "free-of-charge" to an empty shell of a server just to have access to a feature in the game.


We already know the answer. So quit making us laugh with your excuses.

It's always [you] same people replying to all the housing posts with your "tough shit, your own problem, move to another server, blah blah blah." Without actually addressing the ACTUAL issue everyone brings up with housing.

There's a reason you're all getting ignored. But you know, keep adding to your post counts like we care about the selfishness of this community.

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Originally Posted by Rinoa_353

I dunno why they are so against this idea

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As much as people love to throw it around, 'just move lul' is not an ideal solution.

Aside from leaving/dissolving your FC (which is bad enough, but I suppose you already caught that by saying not to move your main), Dynamis:

Continues to be cut off from Aether DC, with no re-enabling of travel on the horizon.
Has abysmal queues for everything other than healers.
Has an embarrassingly dead PF, even on peak hours. One or two for MSQ help, one or two for FATE or map trains, and the rest are RP and venue garbage that I can count on one hand.
Has overpriced everything on the market board.
Is full of dead open world zones and dead cities.

Even on Seraph, the most populated server of the DC, it's bad. I don't want to imagine how it is on something like Kraken.

I do not recommend any Aether player to transfer to Seraph for a house, nor do I recommend wasting your time by leveling an alt here. Your quality of gameplay will freefall, and I don't expect it to change so long as SE thinks the best solution is to just cut us off from Aether.

The solution to the players problems is already in apartments and instanced housing is already in the game just with a 'ward' illusion. People cope so hard on the ward system when the fact is when they enter the house it's actually an instance and you can't see your ward from within.

Give instanced housing or make apartments upgradable and worth it for those who want to make a decent home for them to decorate and enjoy. It's actually vile that alot of the yearly events give you furniture that you can't use. Apartments are too tiny to make anything worthwhile with the janky item placement and how sometimes people need to combine furniture to make something nice and not generic...

I have a house and I want other people to have houses and enjoy it too. I was so happy with my small house when I got it as a sprout and it wasn't easy either....I hope SE stops using housing as a way to trap people into the false scarcity and drive FOMO. (Cause now if you have a nice plot or one you like, you don't want to engage with the lottery system cause it's awful, and when it was inhumane placard spam you felt awful cause you didn't want to go through it again)

Horrible system.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

As much as people love to throw it around, 'just move lul' is not an ideal solution.

Aside from leaving/dissolving your FC (which is bad enough, but I suppose you already caught that by saying not to move your main), Dynamis:

Continues to be cut off from Aether DC, with no re-enabling of travel on the horizon.
Has abysmal queues for everything other than healers.
Has an embarrassingly dead PF, even on peak hours. One or two for MSQ help, one or two for FATE or map trains, and the rest are RP and venue garbage that I can count on one hand.
Has overpriced everything on the market board.
Is full of dead open world zones and dead cities.

Even on Seraph, the most populated server of the DC, it's bad. I don't want to imagine how it is on something like Kraken.

I do not recommend any Aether player to transfer to Seraph for a house, nor do I recommend wasting your time by leveling an alt here. Your quality of gameplay will freefall, and I don't expect it to change so long as SE thinks the best solution is to just cut us off from Aether.

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I understand where you're coming from, I was frustrated for years trying to get a mansion for my og main before I sent my main alt to Seraph. It greatly reduced my stress once I was able to start enjoying housing on my alt and made the year and a half longer wait for my og main to win her own plot in Exodus much more bearable and far less stressful. There is nothing to lose creating an alt on Dynamis new worlds since once you reach level 30, you get one million Gil and also 15 days free of subscription added to your current sub (can only be done once). With the road to 90 bonus, it's really quick to level up and you can even go to Crystal or Primal to do dungeons and trials and still have the bonus.

there's so much bait in this thread i thought we were on the gathering forums. that aside, creating an alt just to purchase a house isn't a solution for most people that already have built up fcs or characters already established. the lottery is just as bad if not worse than first come, first serve. but that's a discussion for another day.

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Originally Posted by MakoEyes

I'd love to see you abandon your FC, everything you've worked for and earned on your home world, and pack up and leave "free-of-charge" to an empty shell of a server just to have access to a feature in the game.


We already know the answer. So quit making us laugh with your excuses.

It's always [you] same people replying to all the housing posts with your "tough shit, your own problem, move to another server, blah blah blah." Without actually addressing the ACTUAL issue everyone brings up with housing.

There's a reason you're all getting ignored. But you know, keep adding to your post counts like we care about the selfishness of this community.

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This was a rather unhinged read. She's not telling you that transferring is the perfect solution and that nothing needs to change, she's telling you that it could be *your* solution if you want a house badly enough *now* because nothing is about to change any time soon and this is the only real option given the current circumstances. Many of us who really need housing in our lives have taken the plunge, you don't have to give everything up. Communicate with your FC and tell them what you're doing. Cross-DC travel lets you keep your ties with anyone, and if you really wanted to keep your FC membership status in-game you can roll up on an alt to purchase and decorate the house and travel over to it if you prefer to keep your main where it is. It would certainly provide you with a better outcome than drafting angry pre-combat anime speeches at people who are trying to offer help.

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Originally Posted by Onxia

Turned my account off today. I really loved this game. The only thing that is totally impossible to get is a house. I have wasted so much time on this game trying to get a house. Its the only thing that I cannot do. You make it impossible. I finally give up. Its a complete waste of my time and money. Bye, enjoy a houseless game.

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Tons of houses on Dynamis. Your negative feelings are your own fault.

Yea because Dynamis, as already discussed, is such a treasure to behold.

No one from Aether should transfer *from* a thriving DC *to* a wasteland of a DC, as already mentioned in previous comments. This is a bandaid solution to the larger issue and doesn't actually fix *anything*. Terrible suggestion.

You are welcome to use one of mine until you get one of your own.

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Originally Posted by Cinnamon_Strudel

Yea because Dynamis, as already discussed, is such a treasure to behold.

No one from Aether should transfer *from* a thriving DC *to* a wasteland of a DC, as already mentioned in previous comments. This is a bandaid solution to the larger issue and doesn't actually fix *anything*. Terrible suggestion.

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It is the *only* solution that's actionable *NOW* or for the foreseeable future. If someone is so frustrated that they cannot get a house that they've decided to quit the game, they may as well shoot their shot where the houses actually are. I believe everyone who wants a house should have one, but I have zero sympathy for this mentality.

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Originally Posted by Impia

It is the *only* solution that's actionable *NOW* or for the foreseeable future. If someone is so frustrated that they cannot get a house that they've decided to quit the game, they may as well shoot their shot where the houses actually are. I believe everyone who wants a house should have one, but I have zero sympathy for this mentality.

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Transfer the wards from dynamis to the other DCs then, since people are not buying the plots, may as well move the server space to where people actually want them /s

Again, telling someone to move to dynamis is a bad taste joke.

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Originally Posted by MakoEyes

I'd love to see you abandon your FC, everything you've worked for and earned on your home world, and pack up and leave "free-of-charge" to an empty shell of a server just to have access to a feature in the game.


We already know the answer. So quit making us laugh with your excuses.

It's always [you] same people replying to all the housing posts with your "tough shit, your own problem, move to another server, blah blah blah." Without actually addressing the ACTUAL issue everyone brings up with housing.

There's a reason you're all getting ignored. But you know, keep adding to your post counts like we care about the selfishness of this community.

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I did actually. I also get back to Aether to do my raiding, PvP, etc. I guess I'm one of the rare ones who gets my cake and eats it too.

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Originally Posted by Raraka

Again, telling someone to move to dynamis is a bad taste joke.

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No, it's actually called a "legitimately helpful suggestion." Plenty of people have moved servers or data centers to get a house because they thought it was worthwhile.

Either getting a house in the video game Final Fantasy 14 is such a high priorty for you that you take the suggestion and use the free data center move, or it's less of a priority for you than everything else on your home server and you stay put. That's a calculation you need to make for youself.

Getting upset at other people for saying "this is what I did, I hope the suggestion helps you" is a "you" problem, not a "the person making the suggestion" problem. And, similarly, not making the move and having a house is a "you" problem, and not a "the person making the suggestion" problem.

Getting mad at everyone else for your own choices isn't how adulting works.

Same here. I won't renew my sub when it runs out. Moving is not an option for multiple reasons, and the alt option won't work either. We have 300+ people bidding in every single auction. We've also had extremely low inventory lately due to the auto demo freeze. Meanwhile, we have players who own every house in an entire ward. The frustration is real. Aether needs more wards, plain and simple. Better yet, open more housing. I mean, the Loporrits prepared a home for us & we're not even using it?? What about Solution 9 or near the Crystarium, so many options.

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Originally Posted by RhaenysT

Same here. I won't renew my sub when it runs out. Moving is not an option for multiple reasons, and the alt option won't work either. We have 300+ people bidding in every single auction. We've also had extremely low inventory lately due to the auto demo freeze. Meanwhile, we have players who own every house in an entire ward. The frustration is real. Aether needs more wards, plain and simple. Better yet, open more housing. I mean, the Loporrits prepared a home for us & we're not even using it?? What about Solution 9 or near the Crystarium, so many options.

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You are welcome to use one of mine until you get a house of your own. It shouldn't be too difficult to make happen since we're both on Gilgamesh.

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Originally Posted by Cinnamon_Strudel

Yea because Dynamis, as already discussed, is such a treasure to behold.

No one from Aether should transfer *from* a thriving DC *to* a wasteland of a DC, as already mentioned in previous comments. This is a bandaid solution to the larger issue and doesn't actually fix *anything*. Terrible suggestion.

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It's fine I have a beachfront in Mist and an 11 in Lavender. I visit and play with my friends on aether all the time. It's works just fine. Make an alt if moving your main is such an issue. You'll actually have more to do.

Get an apartment and stuff all your housing sh...stuff in the storage. It helps a little bit to have it all compartmentalized and when you're ready to make the switch, they don't have a demolish timer on them and you can create a 'test room' if you want for the theme you plan on. Housing has always had issues from day 1. Honestly, we need a storage upgrade as well for all the seasonal items we've collected over the years. How long have you been trying to get a house if I might ask?

I am fairly new to FFXIV, but I can't see housing as being appealing overall unfortunately. Yeah it could be fun, but only getting something temporarily seems a complete waste of time and money.

I know some love it here and having a "fixed place" has value I am sure, but it is definitely different and not compelling to me as a newcomer.

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Originally Posted by FlopsyPrince

I am fairly new to FFXIV, but I can't see housing as being appealing overall unfortunately. Yeah it could be fun, but only getting something temporarily seems a complete waste of time and money.

I know some love it here and having a "fixed place" has value I am sure, but it is definitely different and not compelling to me as a newcomer.

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You can get an apartment that is permanent so you can safely take extended breaks if you wanted without fear of losing your home like houses do after 45 days of inactivity normally. For now, the auto demolition is inactive due to the hurricane and flooding the US went through two months ago. You can then try and decorate your apartment and see if you may grow to like having your own player home :3

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Originally Posted by MakoEyes

I'd love to see you abandon your FC, everything you've worked for and earned on your home world, and pack up and leave "free-of-charge" to an empty shell of a server just to have access to a feature in the game.


We already know the answer. So quit making us laugh with your excuses.

It's always [you] same people replying to all the housing posts with your "tough shit, your own problem, move to another server, blah blah blah." Without actually addressing the ACTUAL issue everyone brings up with housing.

There's a reason you're all getting ignored. But you know, keep adding to your post counts like we care about the selfishness of this community.

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Aren't they already doing all that when they quit the game?

Housing is not temporary. You pay gil one time and that's it. People say that apartments are permanent because houses gets demolished if you don't enter it after 44 days.

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Originally Posted by RhaenysT

Same here. I won't renew my sub when it runs out. Moving is not an option for multiple reasons, and the alt option won't work either. We have 300+ people bidding in every single auction. We've also had extremely low inventory lately due to the auto demo freeze. Meanwhile, we have players who own every house in an entire ward. The frustration is real. Aether needs more wards, plain and simple. Better yet, open more housing. I mean, the Loporrits prepared a home for us & we're not even using it?? What about Solution 9 or near the Crystarium, so many options.

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Sounds to me like the real solution is to tell those people to choose one house, and condemn the remaining ones, returning their purchase price, then reselling the condemned houses. That's 59 new houses right there.

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Originally Posted by Ayan_Calvesse

Aren't they already doing all that when they quit the game?

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This extremely rude guy just loves to complain and insults people that try to offer helpful advice.

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Originally Posted by Rolks

Sounds to me like the real solution is to tell those people to choose one house, and condemn the remaining ones, returning their purchase price, then reselling the condemned houses. That's 59 new houses right there.

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The same should also apply to all the FC submarine farming shacks and be allowed to only have one personal and FC plot per world.

If they're going to lock down housing demolition they could at least add 3 more wards (there is space on the tabs for that) and shorten the timers it should not be a week to bid and then a week for results 3 days for bid 3 days for result next cycle. and FCs should not be able to multi bid on a mixed ward house it's unfair to individuals.

Furthermore you're not missing anything with housing that you can't do with an apartment or Fc room. If you want to quit then just leave don't make a big deal of it.
but yeah housing is one of the least thought out aspects of 14 atm.

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Originally Posted by MakoEyes

I'd love to see you abandon your FC, everything you've worked for and earned on your home world, and pack up and leave "free-of-charge" to an empty shell of a server just to have access to a feature in the game.

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Everything you've worked for and earned? I'm pretty sure transferring servers doesn't reset your account to level 0. You'd have to leave your FC but that's it.