WoW is fixing FFXIV’s housing, and we deserve it here too

Before we begin, I know revamping FFXIV’s system would be a huge effort, but WoW just built theirs from the ground up (just as much work). FFXIV pushed WoW to be better after Shadowlands, now it’s WoW’s turn to return the favor.

FFXIV’s housing system has been around for a while, Blizzard had the benefit of analyzing its design, along with those of other games to build their own system allowing them to avoid the issues these other housing systems have. Though, it almost seems like they simply studied only FFXIV’s system, pinpointed the issues, and refined them.


Video on the upcoming WoW housing system: https://youtu.be/wxJCsbBpjrU?t=162

Some key points (not all):

• 10,000 item limit
• Inside is much bigger than the outside
• Can build all sorts of rooms including clock towers
• Each new patch that brings new furniture to the NPCs, the player housing system will also get it

Why bring this up? WoW's housing system won’t be arriving until Winter, and there are FFXIV players who might be tempted to jump ship for a better alternative. This is the perfect moment for FFXIV’s dev team to take action, lay the groundwork, and set plans in motion for a major housing overhaul.

Will they be able to implement all the necessary fixes by Winter? Probably not. But can they at least start the process and provide a trailer or interview to reassure players that improvements are on the way? Absolutely.

Most importantly, will SE move to fix FFXIV's housing issues with just our requesting it? They haven't yet, and they won't as things stand. They need competition, and they need their subscribers to cite that competition as attractive (which it sounds like it will be).

Moving forward, we don't just cite the issues we have with the housing system, but we need to begin to say "FFXIV has a problem with people who want to buy houses but can't get them either due to a server being busy or people buying up entire wards. WoW won't have that issue, it's time to play catch up even if it takes a lot of work."

To be clear, it will take work, we understand that. It took a ton of work for the WoW devs to add housing from scratch, but they did it. SE is not some tiny defenseless company, they can rise to the occasion, and meet this competition head on if they opt to do so.

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Originally Posted by Morphiana

Before we begin, I know revamping FFXIV’s system would be a huge effort, but WoW just built theirs from the ground up (just as much work). FFXIV pushed WoW to be better after Shadowlands, now it’s WoW’s turn to return the favor.

FFXIV’s housing system has been around for a while, Blizzard had the benefit of analyzing its design, along with those of other games to build their own system allowing them to avoid the issues these other housing systems have. Though, it almost seems like they simply studied only FFXIV’s system, pinpointed the issues, and refined them.


Video on the upcoming WoW housing system: https://youtu.be/wxJCsbBpjrU?t=162

Some key points (not all):

• 10,000 item limit
• Inside is much bigger than the outside
• Can build all sorts of rooms including clock towers
• Each new patch that brings new furniture to the NPCs, the player housing system will also get it

Why bring this up? WoW's housing system won’t be arriving until Winter, and there are FFXIV players who might be tempted to jump ship for a better alternative. This is the perfect moment for FFXIV’s dev team to take action, lay the groundwork, and set plans in motion for a major housing overhaul.

Will they be able to implement all the necessary fixes by Winter? Probably not. But can they at least start the process and provide a trailer or interview to reassure players that improvements are on the way? Absolutely.

Most importantly, will SE move to fix FFXIV's housing issues with just our requesting it? They haven't yet, and they won't as things stand. They need competition, and they need their subscribers to cite that competition as attractive (which it sounds like it will be).

Moving forward, we don't just cite the issues we have with the housing system, but we need to begin to say "FFXIV has a problem with people who want to buy houses but can't get them either due to a server being busy or people buying up entire wards. WoW won't have that issue, it's time to play catch up even if it takes a lot of work."

To be clear, it will take work, we understand that. It took a ton of work for the WoW devs to add housing from scratch, but they did it. SE is not some tiny defenseless company, they can rise to the occasion, and meet this competition head on if they opt to do so.

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I like this, and yes SE has A LOT of fing work to do.

BUT they won't. ''BETTER TO HAVE LOTTERY AND WARDS SO PEOPLE CAN BID AND LOTTERY'' .... i approve your idea btw hun

Competition is good. I'm sure the FFXIV devs are keeping a watchful eye on what's going on with WoW housing and hopefully it results in some positive developments over here.

If nothing else, I want a Z axis… watching their housing preview and seeing how effortless it was to float a table in midair - and at an angle even! - made me jealous! I just want to put furniture on a loft without having to float it up there inch by inch!

The other thing was the multiple dye channels on furnishings… wood, metal and cloth all separate. Yes please!

OMG, it would be a dream come true having a 10,000 item limit for my mansions!

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Originally Posted by Rinoa_353

OMG, it would be a dream come true having a 10,000 item limit for my mansions!

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agreed. I 100% agree love.

Yeah it's all good now but give it a couple of months

That's the real test. Does it retain player activity. Or will players not want to be in an isolated instance and choose to remain in the hubs

Oof, now WoW is calling out FFXIV.

https://www.bluetracker.gg/wow/topic...ok-at-housing/

And, I'd rather have an instanced house than deal with the lottery system or see people who still own multiple plots or wards.

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Originally Posted by Morphiana

Oof, now WoW is calling out FFXIV.

https://www.bluetracker.gg/wow/topic...ok-at-housing/

And, I'd rather have an instanced house than deal with the lottery system or see people who still own multiple plots or wards.

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Competition I guess. Given they've destroyed basically what got me into the game in the first place about a decade go. An given I'm console exclusive now. For me, it doesn't move the needle

It won't for many people, but it will for others. If it's enough, then hopefully they'll start listening to feedback and devote more resources to the housing team. Though, I'd prefer they try to pre-emptively fix their issues before the WoW version comes out instead of reacting to it.

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Originally Posted by Morphiana

It won't for many people, but it will for others. If it's enough, then hopefully they'll start listening to feedback and devote more resources to the housing team. Though, I'd prefer they try to pre-emptively fix their issues before the WoW version comes out instead of reacting to it.

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as i said before love. I wish, hope and dream of that too.

BUT with SE being how it is, it have not heard or listened to ANYONE, except the PvPers and Raiders for the looongest time.

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Originally Posted by Morphiana

It won't for many people, but it will for others. If it's enough, then hopefully they'll start listening to feedback and devote more resources to the housing team. Though, I'd prefer they try to pre-emptively fix their issues before the WoW version comes out instead of reacting to it.

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They dont need to fix it, it works perfectly as intended, keeps people subscribed thanks to auto demo, and forces people to bid for years to get a medium/large house, at the very least months if good RNG

Sounds like a winning recipe to me, no matter how unhappy people are, from a financial point of view it's a good thing. Why would they fix it ? So people can enjoy their free instanced house that they'll use for an hour, maybe a day, hell maybe a week, and then leave to rot forever ?

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Originally Posted by SophiaDL

They dont need to fix it, it works perfectly as intended, keeps people subscribed thanks to auto demo, and forces people to bid for years to get a medium/large house, at the very least months if good RNG

Sounds like a winning recipe to me, no matter how unhappy people are, from a financial point of view it's a good thing. Why would they fix it ? So people can enjoy their free instanced house that they'll use for an hour, maybe a day, hell maybe a week, and then leave to rot forever ?

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Sadly, this seems to be the case much like they force you to buy the expensive glams over for any alts instead of all Mogstation purchases being accountwide. It also took my OG main 7 years to win her personal large in LB in Exodus but my main alt in Seraph did enjoy it when it first went live so it made the wait much more bearable.

No matter how good WoW's housing system is, it won't be enough for me to want to switch over, and likely others as well. But yeah, FFXIV needs to get their shit together with its housing system. Please make modernizing the housing system a priority for at the very least least 8.0.

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Originally Posted by mallleable

No matter how good WoW's housing system is, it won't be enough for me to want to switch over, and likely others as well. But yeah, FFXIV needs to get their shit together with its housing system. Please make modernizing the housing system a priority for at the very least least 8.0.

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I concur, I have nearly a decade (Fall 2015) in this game and I won't ever play WoW as well and their cartoonish graphics also turn me off along with the biggest reason..... no catgirls lol. I do hope SE does make major improvements to housing going forward or they may lose players to WoW because of housing.

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Originally Posted by Rinoa_353

I concur, I have nearly a decade (Fall 2015) in this game and I won't ever play WoW as well and their cartoonish graphics also turn me off along with the biggest reason..... no catgirls lol. I do hope SE does make major improvements to housing going forward or they may lose players to WoW because of housing.

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I just wanna see how's it settled after a few monthes. Will it maintain the hype? Or will it settle into how housing is here. Where players have it but get bored of it an move on. So many says SWG had the best housing. But that alone wasn't enough to save it.. And given how so many wards have plots but are usually vacant because players want to decorate, but once they are finished they move onto other things and usually hang out in player filled hubs.

So because it's a new feature and people are gonna enjoy the crap out of it.Something new. But give it 3 to 6 months and see where the playerbase lands on it.

I want more wards, I want different layout size plots. I want the apartments to be a little smaller than the largest small layout. ( I think players should want to strive for something bigger. Myself.I wanted a mansion like everybody else but I grew fond of my two smalls. I prefer it over the medium I was trying figure out how to decorate and lost due to the demo timer)