"Personal" housing is awful

[Inzoum]

If only they made like more wards and plots so that everyone can actually enjoy owning a house, they would have received a lot less backlash.

For all subscribers, you'd need around 600 wards per city, per server. Being realistic and considering there are a lot of inactive players as well as players that are not interested in buying a personal house or don't have the Gil to buy one, 100 wards per city, per server would probably be enough to satisfy the demand, barely. adding 10 more wards is not even going to make a dent in the demand.

They'll probably need a new UI to navigate through wards, as it'll get messy once they reach that number of wards. They probably won't, though, as their servers will never be able to cope with that

[Quesse]

This was so poorly executed.

2. "Personal" housing is the cost of what it is supposed to take a group to save up for (not a problem for me in particular, it's just not good)

This one is so true. Remember when FC housing came out and people were complaining about the costs? Yoshi kept saying it will be no problem for a group of people to save up and get a house.

Now he releases personal housing with the same cost???????????? So what now? So duplicitous.

[EricCartmenez]

That's because siren has a low population in comparison to many other servers. I had a character there once. It's like a ghost town.

I guess it's the one perk to living 'in the sticks'. Downside, harder to recruit folks into FC.

[Teryaani]

That's because siren has a low population in comparison to many other servers. I had a character there once. It's like a ghost town.

You're not wrong, that said it's gotten better. We have a pretty hefty influx of new players.

The scary thing is that we're in group A for servers. So right alongside Balmung and Gilgamesh for housing prices (Not. Joking.). Higher prices, small server economy.

Aegis / Bahamut / Balmung / Behemoth / Cactuar / Carbuncle / Chocobo / Diabolos / Durandal / Excalibur / Fenrir / Garuda / Gilgamesh / Gungnir / Hyperion / Ifrit / Leviathan / Mandragora / Masamune / Midgardsormr / Odin / Ragnarok / Ramuh / Ridill / Sargatanas / Shiva / Siren / Tiamat / Titan / Tonberry / Ultros

I'm pretty sure SE just expanded what it means to be a "large" server.

But we had houses, so that helps.

[polyphonica]

This one is so true. Remember when FC housing came out and people were complaining about the costs? Yoshi kept saying it will be no problem for a group of people to save up and get a house.

Now he releases personal housing with the same cost???????????? So what now? So duplicitous.

It's not the same cost as it was then, just the same cost as it is now, which has dropped to about 1/3 of the original cost. Meanwhile, due to inflation and new systems, the amount of gil individuals are able to earn has also gone up considerably. Plus, it's on a depreciation schedule to be half-price within a month. So on this specific part, it actually makes some sense.

The real problem is supply. Price would work itself out in time if there were enough plots to go around.