NEWS: Personal Housing, Limit Break Changes etc

[Nalien]

Chocobo related new contents coming in 2.3 or 2.35 (Ability to craft chocobo food that can be fed to your chocobo that will allow it to reach even higher buddy ranks(?).
May also allow chocobo training at stables. Possibly allow dyeing your chocobo).

Please no... That would be awful... Either go with FFVII and have use gain colour through massive inbreeding, or go with FFIX and make "dyeing" our Chocobo part of a massive minigame questline.

If it's as easy as dyeing gear, I'll eat a moogle.

Yoshi apparently thinks the average player is running around with 2 million gil. So expect it to be in the millions.
I don't know what game he's monitoring...

And I don't know what game you're playing... Between the Challenge Log, Dailies, Retainer Ventures, and Duty Roulette, Gil is absolutely worthless. Saving up a few million Gil isn't hard in the slightest.

[PlanckZero]

Yoshi apparently thinks the average player is running around with 2 million gil. So expect it to be in the millions.
I don't know what game he's monitoring...

You do realize they're not guessing on this stuff right?

They have the servers... they can ask someone in the office "Hey, how much gil does the average player have?" and get an accurate number.

Personally, without even trying and just selling stuff I pick up... I'm sitting on a little over six million.

[CYoung187]

I have a large number of alts I would like to get houses on for RP reasons but have pretty much zero desire to level them any further than they already are. I am 100% capable of transferring money to them so that they can buy their own house if they can't afford it on their own.

Besides, if housing is more than 1 mil gil (and it shouldn't even come close to that), then SE has really f'ed up. They justified FC housing prices because multiple people were contributing. Personal housing should be maybe 100-500k tops.

Perfect example of a way to waste server space. I don't want to be in an empty neighborhood because houses were given away to every character and alt. Houses will be abandoned by players who rarely play and alts. If they feel like the current 15 housing wards stressed servers, can you imagine if they pretty much gave it to everyone?

[Naunet]

Perfect example of a way to waste server space. I don't want to be in an empty neighborhood because houses were given away to every character and alt. Houses will be abandoned by players who rarely play and alts. If they feel like the current 15 housing wards stressed servers, can you imagine if they pretty much gave it to everyone?

If their infrastructure is really that shitty, perhaps I should consider taking my money elsewhere to a game that actually provides both accessible housing and a great deal of housing upgrades to work towards.

Limiting fluff content is really unacceptable.

[Starlord]

If their infrastructure is really that shitty, perhaps I should consider taking my money elsewhere to a game that actually provides both accessible housing and a great deal of housing upgrades to work towards.

Limiting fluff content is really unacceptable.

I rather them use money to put content in the game than worrying about that. Housing is just something to look at atm ( outside of gardening).

[Senfei]

If their infrastructure is really that shitty, perhaps I should consider taking my money elsewhere to a game that actually provides both accessible housing and a great deal of housing upgrades to work towards.

Limiting fluff content is really unacceptable.

If player housing and the design decisions behind player housing is truly that important to you, than I would honestly suggest just packing up right now and hitting the road. Not trying to be a jerk, but you are placing a massive amount of importance personally on a feature that is at best a small side project for most players and seems to be treated as such by the developers. Personally, I would love for housing to be expanded on to the level of the Sims myself, but I know that it never will be. The focus of this game is killing monsters for loot, and that will always take priority over things like housing from a developer standpoint.

[Taruranto]

This is a horrible decision. Personal housing should be available to everyone, regardless of level.

lol, it's level 50, not "level 50, cleared T9 and iLevel 110"

They probably wanted to avoid situations like "level 10 who bought gil buys half of Limsa"

[Felis]

Dye birds? I'm all for chocobo variety but I expected it to come through breeding... not tossing a bucket of paint on the poor thing. xD

Not with paint, with fruits

Q: Any plans for red Chocobo, colored Chocobos?
Yoshida: For Chocobo color, there is a new feature coming for the housing, a stable is planned for release in patch 2.3 or patch 2.35. Using this facility, you give certain foods to Chocobo so they can break through their limit, or feed certain food which changes the color of their feathers...... we’re looking into that direction. Maybe if you train the Chocobos in these stables it’ll help their growth. As for two people riding on Chocobo’s together, we’re currently looking into this.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2069795

[CYoung187]

If their infrastructure is really that shitty, perhaps I should consider taking my money elsewhere to a game that actually provides both accessible housing and a great deal of housing upgrades to work towards.

Limiting fluff content is really unacceptable.

You want them to go all out on fluff, instead of using their resources on primary content? Reality check, they don't have infinite resources, and housing is not at the top of the list. You are setting yourself up to be extreamely disappointed when housing comes out. This isn't Housing Fantasy.

[Dijana]

I like how due to one point most of this thread became about same sex marriage. Im excited about finally being able for my husband and I to marry our characters together, though I would hope they include samesex marriage too. Perhaps if they're really worried they could do it like in XI, they didnt allow it at first, but then went back on that and adjusted the system to allow it...although most people didn't even seem to realise, obviously nobody even cared about it by that point.

A little disappointed in chocobos. I was thinking/hoping for an actual chocobo breeding system, unless its still in the works.

Personal housing...sounds great, I would love to have a cottage in gridania finally, but all my gil goes to our FC house in Ul'dah. I'll probably have a personal room but never be able to afford another house for myself ):