Make it 1 House per Account

[Rennah]

So what exactly would this fix? I don't know of many people who have multiple 50s and have the money to buy even one house, much less two.

If anything it wouldn't do much. Those with multiple 50 characters (not just classes on one character) that could afford such on two characters are probably dual (multi) boxing and this would not affect them since they have multiple accounts. Remember a dual boxer earns twice the money from kills and quests and dungeons (if they can manage them), over a normal single account.

Bit of a late reply to this, but that's definitely an erroneous assumption, haha. Just because it's possible and efficient to level all jobs on one character definitely doesn't mean that everyone prefers to do it. I know at least four members of my FC have the full 8 characters on our accounts, while another is sitting at 6 or 7, and plenty of others have several alts as well. You'd be surprised how many people just prefer to have some variation.

[FruityTootie]

Most likely you'll get the gil you spent on the extra house back.

Besides why would a player want more than 1 house beyond spamming gardening a mass production level?

The original plan was 1 Housing per character to begin with and 1 Housing per FC.

I have multiple characters with different styles :3

Regardless, it's rather easy to make money in this game and could have bought a medium instead of multiple smalls, those complaining that only the rich were able to buy houses are just lazy.

Those complaining about space, deal with it, you should have been online when the servers were up if you wanted the house. First come first served.

[DefendPopPunk]

Was it ever stated that the housing being doubled in 2.4 was the end of it? Or are they going to continue adding more? The problem seems less about restricting people from buying more than one than it is about there being enough for everyone to even be able to buy.

[Ultimatecalibur]

The ward system *shouldn't* be limited; Lord of the Rings Online does something extremely similar and it works perfectly.

I suspect its all the individual outdoor customizations that we have causing problems. Lotro only needs to track two data points for each lot: state of ownership and who owns it. FFXIV needs to track far more in addition to those two data points: windows, walls, doors, roof, stables, gardens and all the outdoor furniture.

[Ranzan]

How about no. You should be able to buy as many houses you can afford. We all have equal advantage to get a house.

[Zumi]

If you want to buy multiple houses you still have to go through the trouble of leveling up another character that is a big road block right there.

[Kaethra]

Bit of a late reply to this, but that's definitely an erroneous assumption, haha. Just because it's possible and efficient to level all jobs on one character definitely doesn't mean that everyone prefers to do it. I know at least four members of my FC have the full 8 characters on our accounts, while another is sitting at 6 or 7, and plenty of others have several alts as well. You'd be surprised how many people just prefer to have some variation.

I think you misunderstood me.

I'm talking about dual boxers. Those with multiple accounts played at the same time (aka they play their own groups by controlling 2-4 characters). It doesn't have anything to do with single or multiple characters.

[Dyvid]

Can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with OP to a point. In a perfect world I would say it's free game but this isn't a perfect world and we have limited server space for housing it seems. Both FCs and players need to be limited to one house per server for the greater good.

[Fyrebrand]

I would just be happy if personal housing had a cross-character bank. But of course Squeenix basically has given the finger to anyone who wants to have more than one character.... despite allowing us to pay for that "privilege."

[HumsterMKX]

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The original plan was 1 Housing per character to begin with and 1 Housing per FC.

They drop the ball on everything do they...