Personal Housing Questions

[Musashidon]

guess this means personal housing can have it's own private airship huh? nothing is fc exclusive!

[Khyzen]

What the actual hell... screw "optimization" and "server load." We've all seen the reports; FFXIV is what has been consistently earning Square-Enix a profit since its release. Buy more servers and get the space!

It's individual housing. INDIVIDUAL HOUSING. It should be for everyone, every single player! You all made housing such a major part of the game, and for Free Companies, the way it was implemented was fine. But the purpose of personal housing shouldn't be a gil dump. It shouldn't be to show who the richest players on the servers are, or be a race about who can log in the fastest. Personal housing was supposed to allow every player to enjoy the housing content.

And no, doubling the housing wards in 2.4 isn't going to solve that.

How many players are there per server? Because I guarantee it won't be enough, especially now that the Free Companies who have been waiting for their new wards have to actually compete with every single individually rich player in the game.

I have been defending the game, the dev team, everything because of how much I enjoy this game. But this is such a huge step backward. It's lazy, it's poorly thought-out, and it wasn't implemented with the player-base in mind. Is it really that hard to create one singular instance that players can go into and have their own home, and invite their friends into?

No, instead of creating a new instance, instead of creating areas designed specifically for personal housing, all we get are two new wards and the ability to individually purchase land AT THE SAME PRICE AS FREE COMPANIES. The same prices that has taken whole FCs months to save for? Really?

For once, just once, could the dev team please just give us content that isn't designed for the top-tier players, that eventually trickles down to the casual players 3-6 months later?

Honestly, this is just sad and disappointing. For the money we all pay you guys each month, I was expecting a lot more.

[RavinousKurohi]

Good news everyone! Now a vast majority of us no longer have to wake up earlier than normal in the morning~

Yep. I was going to pull an all-nighter to be up with the servers but I'm going to sleep in. So long dream of my beach house...

[Cidel]

Oh, almost forgot; from earlier in this thread:

I look forward to any and all threads about housing outrage due to price, availability, implementation, and/or size.

[Bori]

I'm so furious right now. He lied. YoshiP lied. I defended him. I said he wouldn't do certain things. He did and wants us to take it as if we are STUPID. He. LIED. They were supposed to be separate zones with prices reflecting that 1 person was paying for it. I'd rather they postpone it until they had it right instead of this. I will no longer support him or defend him.

[RavinousKurohi]

Time to start saving up 20mil+ by 2.4 for a fighting chance, everyone.

I'm short 85mil on my server for the one I want. Q.Q

[Shougun]

Oh, almost forgot; from earlier in this thread:

Are we doing quote backs? ? We nailed it didn't we? Although unfortunately while I could I'm not quite ready to part with 4 million for a small house, let alone hoping to get a medium which im not going to do for sure now lol.

Exactly. The more you think about it, the more it makes sense they simply can't handle this kind of demand and instanced rooms would be the only viable route. Luckily for me, they're adding more FC wards so I'll be simply buying myself a mansion that way. Sucks for others though.

There is one issue to this idea though, we're playing a SE game. :P

They're completely capable of isolating themselves from the rest of the world, occasionally their QA takes the patch off and everything just vaults straight to the docks and into the holds, fire sale to hit ship and sail for players to beta test live lol.

Maybe they purposefully aren't saying anything because they don't want people to bumrush the servers trying to buy land.

I think this is the case, if they had a wonderful instanced system set up I would imagine they'd share it for pride. This seems more like the quiet before the storm lol.

I think this is the plan for most who can get on at that time. Some of my FC members plan to wake up super early and try to buy one. As fast as FC housing went on Balmung I don't doubt people are already planning to camp for personal housing.

Servers with a lot of gil are going to be the worst, I wonder if we will crash the zones trying to get that iHome rush. .

Of course I could just be pessimistic and everything is wonderful, but from what SE has said and what they've done in the past - I don't think what is wanted is what will be. I do think though if we make a big deal about it that SE can get out of their shells once more and see that there are some excellent systems in other MMOs for housing. I would expect the worse and let SE know (if what I assume is true) that they need to think of some other ideas.

/debbiedowner XD

[Niwashi]

2 new wards would barely cover the FC needs. They need an increase of a couple orders of magnitude, not a couple of wards, if they want it to work at all as personal housing. All this update accomplishes is to take something that's NOT by any stretch of the imagination personal housing and using it to destroy FC housing. Now neither one is going to ever be available. I think SE has just destroyed their game.

[Nalien]

I think SE has just destroyed their game.

They certainly pissed off a lot of people. I'd really love to hear what exactly went on here, because there is zero reason this couldn't have been included in 2.1.

At least I don't hate my Free Company members anymore. Used to be their fault I couldn't get a House, seeing as they were dirt poor and I was already close to putting up 50% of the cost. Now I just hate Yoshida.

[Mythria]

I'm not about to quit the game or anything.. but the personal housing is such a disappointment right now. I was REALLY looking forward to it. I saved and saved in hopes of a medium house but I don't think I could even get a small house :/ Even if I waited for prices to drop they will probably all be bought up. Plus I still want a medium but that is bare minimum 15 mil..... Why are individuals supposed to pay the same price as a whole FC?!? Why??????? Just sad now