Housing Let Down

This mornings live letter left much to be desired. Housing...

"Increased number of placed items or the interior upgrades, we're almost done but we need a bit more time, sorry"

That's it. That's all they said. They've been promising that for close to 2 years now. In half that timespan, Guild Wars 2 introduced a housing system, increased the slot count, and is releasing ANOTHER new "housing ward." World of Warcraft is about to do the same thing.

I'd like to see a but more transparency when it comes to this topic from the dev team. A roadmap on updates perhaps.

Agree, annoying to have such an important part of the game be so poorly supported for so long. I've been waiting for years. My houses have been sat waiting on this upgrade for so long now it's not fkn funny.

You're so right!! It's disappointing!! It's not like we can just take a break from the game until it's updated. The house GOES AWAY!! We're stuck.

The devs really should take some time and at least update us on where they are with the update!!

I'm glad they're spending time working on adding Wuk Lamat voices to Mahjong and redesigning Cutter's Cry for NPCs to play instead of improving the housing system. It's good to know CBU3 have their priorities in order! /s

Biggest disappointment of the whole LL honestly. Don’t tell us details are coming in this LL and then not explain what you’re doing and WHY you need more time. This is almost word for word what they said when they pushed it from 7.2 to 7.3!

TBH if they add a voice line for Wuk that's just "Spheeeeeeeeeeeeene!" when you loose. I'm totally OK with getting shafted for the 315th time.

Cutter's Cry with NPCs. Great... Wooooot...

I feel like they could of AT LEAST given us crumbs. Anything. Any specifics that we could latch onto for hope. BUT nothing!! Just a handwave "We've working on it. 'Really'."

*flips table

YOU SO RIGHT!!

We all heard it!! It's what got us through 7.2!! We knew we were getting SOME info for 7.3. But we're once again getting NOTHING. I feel it's appropriate for us to be rather annoyed with their lack of transparency and lack of preparedness!! Waiting to tell us they had nothing at the end of the live letter; salt in the wound.

And as housing players are unlikely to unsubscribe in protest and therefore risk to loose their houses, they can delay this housing update indefinitely! Smart!

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Originally Posted by OdrN

And as housing players are unlikely to unsubscribe in protest and therefore risk to loose their houses, they can delay this housing update indefinitely! Smart!

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The catch 22 T_T

They're going to tell us to be patient. Like they have been for the last TWO years. UGH.

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Biggest disappointment of the whole LL honestly. Don’t tell us details are coming in this LL and then not explain what you’re doing and WHY you need more time. This is almost word for word what they said when they pushed it from 7.2 to 7.3!

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It was, the LL started at 4 AM local for me but I sat and watched the entire stream and while there were many neat things shown, it was a huge let down at the end when they couldn't show us at least a progress report, show us something that it's being worked on. SE needs to give more of the profits to the FFXIV team to hire more developers so they can have teams working on housing that wouldn't affect the teams working on content and such.

I'm just so effing tired of this. Housing was my #1 want/need in this PLL.

Forum moderators, I hope you pass along this to Yoshi P. We are peed off already, don't delay it further!!

they are refocusing their staff for mobile version of the game. Like they say they wont but already even Yoshi P is working on other games while we get less and less updates. 7.3 sounds like what? 3h of content. Things is they need to hire more staff but why would they? its making a ton of cash so if anything they just using same staff to work on other games.

With how long the patch cycles are now, it sucks having to wait for the next big patch again. I know there's gonna be other content to enjoy but I have been looking forward to redecorating with more space.

they should just demolish all existing houses in the game and force everyone into apartments :D

I also think, that NA Dcs just got thousands of free plots due to demolition timer being active again. Same will happen to EU soon (we already have thousands of free plots across the dc tho)

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Originally Posted by OdrN

And as housing players are unlikely to unsubscribe in protest and therefore risk to loose their houses, they can delay this housing update indefinitely! Smart!

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I mean, would that really impact the number of subscriptions?
Aren't houses the most finite resource in this game? That's the whole reason this is not a priority, never has been and never will.

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Originally Posted by PharisHanasaki

Aren't houses the most finite resource in this game?

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I guess the Medium and Large ones are, no one really cares about the small ones much at all... at least on the newer EU servers.

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Originally Posted by Claria-Vivian

they are refocusing their staff for mobile version of the game.

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With all due respect, you have no idea what you are saying. Mobile is developed in China by Lightspeed Studios. The original proof of concept was created by said studio and presented to Square Enix, who then greenlit it and provided updated graphical update assets ahead of time to Lightspeed so that they could launch the game faster. Square Enix's and Yoshi P's involvement with the mobile game is simply marketing it to a global audience; when the time comes, and cashing the check from all the microtransactions. Otherwise Lightspeed studios are the developer and publisher for the game.

Incompetent studio with a lack of professionalism for multiple years now. I dont know what I was expecting

Insanely disappointed in it, also the lack of content to do, that gets worse and worse.

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Originally Posted by Rinoa_353

It was, the LL started at 4 AM local for me but I sat and watched the entire stream and while there were many neat things shown, it was a huge let down at the end when they couldn't show us at least a progress report, show us something that it's being worked on. SE needs to give more of the profits to the FFXIV team to hire more developers so they can have teams working on housing that wouldn't affect the teams working on content and such.

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THE PAIN. Yeah. The entire live letter just to be brushed off at the end. It was only brought up b/c people were spamming the chat too. They'd completely ignore it otherwise! I agree that they totally could of given us a reason. I'd be more empathetic if there was a reason. At least give us a single slide that says "We're working on it!" I'm still mad the ice trays got more attention than a long requested feature.