NEWS: Personal Housing, Limit Break Changes etc

[Jinko]

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).

No mention of Chocobo SP reset, like getting blood out of a stone.

[PArcher]

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

Since you want to RP...

The lore behind it is (almost certainly, since it essentially is this for FC housing) that the Grand Companies only will allow trustworthy adventurers (must have certain lv50 rank) the ability to buy land under their care.

Oh, wait...you don't care about that aspect of the lore, do you...just whatever RP is in your head.


The game (like every single other game in existence) has finite resources, and, like others have said, housing is NOT terribly important in the grand scheme of things, especially not compared to new content. Allowing only lv50 characters of a certain GC rank also prevents one person (or a few people) from making a bunch of alts and scooping up all the land (like you want to do), which prevents others from taking part. And...it is NOT hard, at all, to level a character to 50 and do GC quests. If you can't be bothered to do that...

[EdwinLi]

I hope they don't cost too much but as of now seems it may with FC prices.

[Dijana]

Wel that bites.

Personal Housing requiring players to be in a FC that is at a certain rank first before they can buy their own Personal Housing.

I'm guessing they will slap on the requirement saying that if you leave your FC or are kicked out of a FC you will lose your Personal Housing as well because the land you bought for Personal Housing is the FC property.

Wasn't the original plan for Personal housing to be a Housing separate from FC housing?

I think you're confused. Personal Housing is a certain rank in your GRAND company, personal rooms is an added room to the FC house, it's two seperate things

[EdwinLi]

I think you're confused. Personal Housing is a certain rank in your GRAND company, personal rooms is an added room to the FC house, it's two seperate things

ya sorry misread the info.

[Naunet]

that will always take priority over things like housing from a developer standpoint.

There's certain things taking priority over others and then there's just restricting content needlessly.

You want them to go all out on fluff, instead of using their resources on primary content?

I've played MMOs with nothing to do outside of running dungeons. They are not fun. Fluff content is content just as important as any other. Running dungeons day in and day out gets really old, really fast.

[Senfei]

There's certain things taking priority over others and then there's just restricting content needlessly.

Needlessly? What lvl 10 character has any sizable amount of gil to purchase a house? An alt, that's who. As someone else pointed out, having neighbors is part of the fun of having a house. I personally would be upset if I purchased a personal home, only to find out that one guy with an army of alts bought up every other lot in my ward rendering it a complete ghostown. I understand you personally don't like it, but take a step away from what -you- want and perhaps look at the situation from the perspective of a potential owner of every other home in that ward.

Also, this isn't a game where alts are really common or important. The developers aren't catering to your desire because not many people use alts for anything. You can do -everything- on one character, hence the lvl 50 limit since everyone who actually plays this game is guided safely and quickly to lvl 50 in no time. Seriously, if you just look at this logically you will see why these restrictions are in place and why they make sense.

[Shenandoah]

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.

In Reinheart translation I think it was mentioned that 850k won't even buy a house? or was it medium house lol, can't remember.

[Naunet]

Also, this isn't a game where alts are really common or important. The developers aren't catering to your desire because not many people use alts for anything.

So which is it? Either alts are going to take up all the housing spots, or no one uses alts.

[Senfei]

So which is it? Either alts are going to take up all the housing spots, or no one uses alts.

Right now, no one really uses alts except perhaps for retainer space. Personally, I'd prefer to keep it at that instead of allowing people to create 7 more characters and fill up a neighborhood just because they have money and can.

Meanwhile you can respond at any time to how you view other people's potential desire to spend their in-game assets on a player home in a ward that is populated by people instead of alts, and whether or not you think that is rational or irrelevent.