Personal Housing for the 1%

[Illya]

I wasn't aware I had to be a resident of Elysium in order to afford a house. The 99% living in the slums of the polluted Earth don't even get a chance I guess.

Personal Housing was one of the things they hyped during the relaunch of FFXIV and instead we got this. People thought Neill Blomkamp's second film was a disappointment, this is somehow even worse. I don't know what Yoshi and the devs were thinking but if they actually thought this was acceptable they have another thought coming now. The Japanese players are rioting even worse than we are and that's saying a lot.

This needs to be completely rethought and addressed pretty quickly, right now patch 2.38 is the worst patch this game has seen so far. I've been a loyal subscriber for a year now and I know I'm not the only unhappy person.

[Crystallus]

We all had the same opportunities in this game.

It's actually far less than 1%

You chose to be in the 99% living in the slums.

Be happy you were successful in your choice.

[Snugglebutt]

@Crystallus

Some of us have lives extending past a virtual one in game and cannot log in as soon as servers come back up because of family obligations, jobs and such. It might be easier for you if they don't need you at work because your not important/needed, it might be easier for you who might have no kids to look after or any other obligations but not everyone has that same chance to get one.

The fact is the supply and demand are so far apart in this game that it is a sad and pathetic joke. If only 0.1% of the entire player base gets the ability to own a personal house, there is something wrong with it especially when every single subscriber could get a mog house in FF11, have personal houses in a lot of other MMO's of which some have not even been out as long as this one, have as many subscribers or even requiring to pay a subscription fee yet Squeenix cannot meet the supply and demand in this one? That's a big failure on Squeenix's part and not the players fault, it is incompetence on Squeenix's end that is the problem here, bad design choices, withholding of investment, lacking understanding of supply and demand on this aspect of the game...in life if your business completes/satisfies only 0.1% of your customers orders pretty soon your find yourself out of business.

[Crystallus]

@Crystallus

@ Snugglebutt

The Same opportunities we all have regardless of anything else in our lives is the Play button and how we prioritize where clicking it.

To decry the fact that others are able to prioritize the Play button more often than oneself is petty.

[Scarletyoshi]

They liked the reactions to housing the first time around so much they thought they'd do it again. Makes no sense to me but people get their jollies any way they can.

[Eye_Gore]

Wait until they release more in 2.4 and are even cheaper than the ones now.

[Rustyhagun]

Wait until they release more in 2.4 and are even cheaper than the ones now.

This really cant be their design choice. It makes them look lazy and incompetent. We are sharing the same zones as Free company's. They are taking away the main focal point of creating a Free Company by doing this. Why would they have single players compete for plots that Free Companys should have first dibs too?
I can only guess Yoshi&Team want to get rid of some more gil, that's overflowing in the game.. which is silly cause, people will amass fortunes in an mmo, there are players that only live to do that. So can we expect stuff like this every quarter of the year, that will have players dump huge amounts of gil into an in-game activity or new function. Seems paranoid to think like this and silly to waste time trying to implement ways to purge gil from the game.

They should have, and should, just make a separate instance for Personal house. Along side Free Company Instance.

-Yoshi&Team also need to give us all the items we have in those Inns and have them accessible in our personal housing.

Adding more plots every mini patch or main patch, to eventually accommodate all 6k+ player-base, along with FreeCompany club members, does not make sense to me. When Yoshi& Team, themselves, are complaining, and stating, they are having issues with server load and trying to test things before adding new plots. Making it the excuse as to why they are per-longing personal housing accessibility/purchase.

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Have a zone that is within the Free company plots that leads to a single player only instance, would have made more sense.
Here the player sees everything like they would with a House in the Housing zones. except it's secluded from other pc's.
Here the player is still able to:
Garden
Decorate the lawn
Raise/train/feed chocobo
Go into house and sleep, place npcs,
Have access to Barber shop, mini game music box, Item chest, Book of cut scenes, retainers
Able to decorate room.
Is also able to give privileges to friends and soon to be spouses. For all the above. (If FF11 can have access options FF14 should be able to also.)


.... either do the above (that's in bold) or create a separate zone for the single player experience. This is what everyone is angry about. You promised a single player experience with housing and you did come through.

[Gramul]

Everyone starts out on the same levels. We all have the same opportunities to make money. There is no class barrier beyond your own choices in this game.

I'm ultimately not concerned about the price. I'll make enough eventually.
It's the severely limited space that makes me concerned.

[Defteros]

Everyone starts out on the same levels. We all have the same opportunities to make money. There is no class barrier beyond your own choices in this game.

I'm ultimately not concerned about the price. I'll make enough eventually.
It's the severely limited space that makes me concerned.

And THIS is the real problem.

[Zarzak]

Everyone starts out on the same levels. We all have the same opportunities to make money. There is no class barrier beyond your own choices in this game.

I'm ultimately not concerned about the price. I'll make enough eventually.
It's the severely limited space that makes me concerned.

Logic. <Do you need it?>

It is literally impossible for everyone to have enough money to afford housing. Even if they all made the same choices those who can afford it made. Because it isn't possible to generate money from the server in those quantities. The top 1% have such insane amounts of money because the other 99% gave them all their money.

Best source of money generated from the server (without limit) is.. what a dungeon? Prolly get 2-3k per run?

50,000,000/2,500 = 20,000..

So sure do 20k dungeons and you can get a house on your own. Lets make it 19k to account for (daily bonuses and such - repairs).

Good luck with that one.

either way /shrug if I wanted to play house there are games such as SIMS to do that. This is a MMO not "let me sit in my own private corner of the world by myself building a house" but suggesting the prices they placed on housing (personal or guild) is realistic is beyond insane.