Concern Regarding the Ongoing Silence About the Promised Housing Update

Hello,

I wanted to share some thoughts following the most recent Live Letter. Many of us have been eagerly awaiting news on the long-promised housing update. It was stated that housing would be addressed this time, yet the topic was absent from the presentation entirely. No slides, no visuals, not even a general outline of progress.

Instead, we were simply told that more time is needed, without any indication of how much time or when we can expect concrete information. After nearly two years of complete silence on this update, it's extremely disheartening to see yet another opportunity pass by without even the smallest detail or acknowledgment of what’s happening behind the scenes.

At this point, given the complete lack of visible progress or communication, it's hard not to assume that the housing update has either been significantly delayed, or worse, deprioritized. It feels eerily similar to the situation with Viera hats, where we were left waiting for years with no clear updates or timelines.

Unless the developers are willing to make a clear and honest statement about the current state of the housing update, I’m left to believe we won’t be seeing it anytime soon.

I say this with respect and appreciation for all the work the team puts into the game, but the silence on this issue is deeply frustrating for many players who have been patiently waiting for years. Under these circumstances, I will assume that housing is off the table and not worth waiting for.

Thank you for reading.

Meanwhile also no word about Beastmaster ever since the fanfest keynote. :/

It sounds like SE has carved up CBU3 like a cake and they don't have the resources to develop the game anymore, even with 5 months between patches. They're barely able to copy + paste on time. End of service coming in 2026?

Because it's a hype trend they are actively doing. Make you hype, feed on it and always get disappointed when a new patch comes. Then be happy again when a patch / live letter is announced. The cycle repeats.
Then you will become brainwashed and one of players with: ''I am happy if they just bring me a single bread crumb, I don't mind''.

They got to many projects thrown on them and are utterly overloaded. You can thank SE's CEO for that.

"We have to attack with multiple projects" their words. Not mine

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Originally Posted by XtremePrime

Meanwhile also no word about Beastmaster ever since the fanfest keynote. :/

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For Beastmaster, it was stated right away that it would be 7.4 or 7.5 feature.

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Originally Posted by Araxes

They got to many projects thrown on them and are utterly overloaded. You can thank SE's CEO for that.

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Yeah I've noticed the game's deterioration since the changing of the guard there. New CEO is like the Dan Snyder of video game companies.

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Originally Posted by Basteala

Yeah I've noticed the game's deterioration since the changing of the guard there. New CEO is like the Dan Snyder of video game companies.

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His predecessor is the one that sold the overseas subsidiaries to go all in on NFTs. SE's lacked competent leadership for a while.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Because it's a hype trend they are actively doing. Make you hype, feed on it and always get disappointed when a new patch comes. Then be happy again when a patch / live letter is announced. The cycle repeats.
Then you will become brainwashed and one of players with: ''I am happy if they just bring me a single bread crumb, I don't mind''.

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I have the same feeling, but at this point my spark is gone to be hyped about essentially anything.

If they have not mentioned it, then it is more likely that they have not given thought to implementing it into the game. This is unfortunate, as the game does need these updates to maintain a healthy playerbase.

I will quote this in case you didn't catch it, but this was said in November 2024. That was 8 months and 14 days ago.

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Finally, as we’ve previously announced, we are currently working to increase the maximum number of furnishings that can be placed in an estate. We expect it to be ready by Patch 7.2 or 7.3, so please look forward to it!

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https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...810-10-2024%29

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Originally Posted by yesnt

I have the same feeling, but at this point my spark is gone to be hyped about essentially anything.

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Then why are you concerned? If your spark was truly gone you wouldn't be disappointed or even need to post here. You would have accepted your fate.
I'll let you all get back to your fan fiction.

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Originally Posted by Gortys

Then why are you concerned? If your spark was truly gone you wouldn't be disappointed or even need to post here. You would have accepted your fate.
I'll let you all get back to your fan fiction.

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Because I paid for the 6 month plan. It is not that difficult to understand that I want service for my money, use your brain, thank you.

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Originally Posted by XtremePrime

Meanwhile also no word about Beastmaster ever since the fanfest keynote. :/

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We already know it's coming in 7.5, same as Blue Mage, so we'll hear about it closer to then. The formula doesn't change.

At this point I think it's safe to assume it's just not a priority anymore. But they don't want to say that because they want you to stay hooked and hoping-they dont want you to give up and let your house demolish and potentially never come back again. They want you chained to that house with hope of great things coming, feeding them money that they don't actually deserve in the meantime.

As stated previously, none of us would even BE let down if he wasnt CONSTANTLY bringing it up. This is YOSHI HIMSELF telling us about it.
I have no idea why people are acting confused.

Yoshi told us these big changes were coming, in Dawntrail. Then he said we would get them at the last patch. Then the last patch, he tells us it's going to be THIS patch. Then THIS patch he tells us its NEXT patch-He keeps pushing it back. He keeps telling us a time, then changing the date once the time comes. Anyone else would be livid, if this was some Savage stuff or whatever that people were excited about and making plans for ohhhhhh we wouldnt hear the END of it!!! There would be outrage up and down all over the internet about how yoshi keeps pushing off their content after specifically telling them to tune in to watch news about said content. But since it's housing, all the sudden the ugly ogres want to crawl out, cross their eyes, and start drooling..."well why did you watch, btw 1+1=26"

To make it worse, he doesnt even bother with housing skins either. At least with every patch we would preview housing items coming + new housing skins. He hasnt done that in what, 6 months? Now to even see new housing items, we have to wait for the patch notes like the night before. He's so lazy now it's insane. He used to always hold up pictures for both of these things, now he can't be bothered for even one. AND we don't even get new house skins anymore. Yeah that's why WoW is running laps over him. That's why thousands have demolished their homes, he's bleeding players left and right. I see why!!! Trying to pad his Live Letters with step by step instructions on how to turn our computers on. Yeah great work.

The biggest sticking point for me is the absolute lack of clarity coming with such a vague statement. Does "it's not ready yet" mean it just wasn't ready for the Live Letter, but will still be there in patch 7.3? Or it won't be in 7.3, but 7.4? Or the scope of changes has changed, so there'll be a whole load of new changes to the system, but that won't arrive until 8.0 now? Is the delay because of hardware supply issues again, and out of their control? Or is it because the features are so cool that they're very tech-heavy, so they hope we won't mind a bit more of a wait? Is "it's not ready yet" even talking about the expanded item count, or something else entirely?

The fact they didn't take another 15 seconds to actually clarify the situation further comes across as if they simply didn't care to be there any longer.

I tend to be pretty forgiving of a lot of things when it comes to the game's current shortcomings, but, man - being told to wait months for 7.2, then being told to wait another 4-odd for 7.3, then being told to wait for 7.3's second middle-of-the-night live letter, then waiting 4 hours for the info promised, then being told there IS no info? That's a LOT of really, REALLY bad communication and - worst of all - it's actively and agressively wasting everyone's time with no apologies and no explanations.

This isn't even feeling like "the bare minimum" any more.

My bet is they wanted to give us +50 Slots for each Small/Medium/Large and then saw WoWs 10k itemlimit and maybe it went through their heads that those +50 might be to pathetic (but with recent decisions i doubt they thought so much anyway) ..

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Originally Posted by Batbrat

Yoshi told us these big changes were coming, in Dawntrail. Then he said we would get them at the last patch. Then the last patch, he tells us it's going to be THIS patch. Then THIS patch he tells us its NEXT patch-He keeps pushing it back. He keeps telling us a time, then changing the date once the time comes. Anyone else would be livid, if this was some Savage stuff or whatever that people were excited about and making plans for ohhhhhh we wouldnt hear the END of it!!! There would be outrage up and down all over the internet about how yoshi keeps pushing off their content after specifically telling them to tune in to watch news about said content. But since it's housing, all the sudden the ugly ogres want to crawl out, cross their eyes, and start drooling..."well why did you watch, btw 1+1=26"

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Why, thank you, you managed to make me laugh for a moment. :D

You have some good points there, it is indeed disrespectful to lead us on like this. I would like to believe that the update is juuust around the corner and really just needs another month or so, but unless they say it clearly like that, I won't assume that is close to the truth.

I also would love to get a new housing skin. I am actually a bit disappointed that they do not make more mix and match skins for a more personal touch. That would make the neighborhood look much more unique instead of most houses using the same Sukiya-zukuri walls.

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Originally Posted by Tyintheron

The biggest sticking point for me is the absolute lack of clarity coming with such a vague statement. Does "it's not ready yet" mean it just wasn't ready for the Live Letter, but will still be there in patch 7.3? Or it won't be in 7.3, but 7.4? Or the scope of changes has changed, so there'll be a whole load of new changes to the system, but that won't arrive until 8.0 now? Is the delay because of hardware supply issues again, and out of their control? Or is it because the features are so cool that they're very tech-heavy, so they hope we won't mind a bit more of a wait? Is "it's not ready yet" even talking about the expanded item count, or something else entirely?

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I totally agree with you here. It was also quite the bummer that we sat there so long waiting for Yoshi to finish his Deep Dungeon exploration. I wasn't joining the stream to watch a full blown spoiler. I switched tabs and went to make some lunch while they were wasting time... they probably even wouldn't have said anything if people in the chat didn't repeatedly ask for the housing update.

Unfortunately this is exactly what Batbrat wrote. All made so it gets you hyped and the product is almost never delivered. The sheer fact that they never mentioned housing during LL just shows that they have forgotten it or left it into abyss so we can expect housing update to come in like April/May 2026 or something. Or hell maybe: "just wait 8.0 guys, the graphic updates and Mahjong voices were too harsh on our cost".

They really need to fix the damn housing system because it's outrageous and plenty of servers don't have a single plot to buy. When I came to Alpha server from Chaos, we had plenty of housing. Specially since new wards opened. So my friend and I managed to get 2 mediums next to each other in Goblet. A few months later, you see a lot more people from Chaos coming in and transferring because Chaos is mega dead for anything reasonable. So housing problem arrives and now even small ones are hard to catch. Meanwhile nobody wants to go and have a house on a dead server / DC.

Now for single medium house, we have 70+ entries and don't let me even talk if they are FC house. it's even more. Another issue is that bots maintain these houses by a lot. Specially when large ones / mediums (best spots) open. There will be tons of bots competing. So good luck winning against that. Then they will sell those accounts with specific plots just to RMT and a lot of sub free money for RMT.

Yet Square doesn't have intention to fix this. Their solution is to increase interior space but then there's no sign of this coming. I don't know how this will go but it's pretty terrible game state.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Unfortunately this is exactly what Batbrat wrote. All made so it gets you hyped and the product is almost never delivered. The sheer fact that they never mentioned housing during LL just shows that they have forgotten it or left it into abyss so we can expect housing update to come in like April/May 2026 or something. Or hell maybe: "just wait 8.0 guys, the graphic updates and Mahjong voices were too harsh on our cost".

They really need to fix the damn housing system because it's outrageous and plenty of servers don't have a single plot to buy. When I came to Alpha server from Chaos, we had plenty of housing. Specially since new wards opened. So my friend and I managed to get 2 mediums next to each other in Goblet. A few months later, you see a lot more people from Chaos coming in and transferring because Chaos is mega dead for anything reasonable. So housing problem arrives and now even small ones are hard to catch. Meanwhile nobody wants to go and have a house on a dead server / DC.

Now for single medium house, we have 70+ entries and don't let me even talk if they are FC house. it's even more. Another issue is that bots maintain these houses by a lot. Specially when large ones / mediums (best spots) open. There will be tons of bots competing. So good luck winning against that. Then they will sell those accounts with specific plots just to RMT and a lot of sub free money for RMT.

Yet Square doesn't have intention to fix this. Their solution is to increase interior space but then there's no sign of this coming. I don't know how this will go but it's pretty terrible game state.

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Just wait for the EU Auto Demo which starts with 7.3. After that there will be plenty of plots.

What was this "housing update" supposed to entail? Or was it just a "Hey we're doing something with housing, wait and see."? Genuinely didn't see or hear anything about it, granted I don't bother looking at housing stuff much at all anymore.

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Originally Posted by Vitallian

What was this "housing update" supposed to entail? Or was it just a "Hey we're doing something with housing, wait and see."? Genuinely didn't see or hear anything about it, granted I don't bother looking at housing stuff much at all anymore.

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For one, the increase of item slots,
for another, the ability to change the interior layout/size (S-L) regardless of the plot you purchased.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

For one, the increase of item slots,
for another, the ability to change the interior layout/size (S-L) regardless of the plot you purchased.

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OHHH. Right I do remember something about that. Huh. Yeah they really haven't said anything about it yet, have they.

I don't buy that they got to many tasks, then it would be hiring in more staff and take a chance for a while, the game has the full potentials to earn it in or sustain itself + bringing in massive profits on top of it, but it requires getting on track with current issues a lot, one of them is those things that has been postponed for too long.

And if that then means we would be getting the half amount of extra content to do, then that would be a huge leap as well.