So considering the size of the servers....

[Barboron]

Maybe on your server there are lots open, but don't assume that all servers have lots open.

Don't assume? Now you're getting the point! That's it, don't assume.

And I did do a mini survey of a few people I knew (FC, Friends list, link shells mainly and a few people I did a lot of duty runs with (not necessarily the same server)). Again, not conclusive evidence, but my point is more of that there are people that want housing but either can't get them because the houses already got bought up, or they are waiting for the prices to go down, but it is a game of: What is the price that I'll pay, what is the price that others will pay?

Of course it won't be conclusive evidence, that sort of sample would be far too small and you still made the assumption that half of the high level players of a number you made by a small observation would want housing.

Also, I see no reason why their servers can't handle housing. There are other games with larger non-instanced housing areas that are fine and they aren't even from a big company like SE. So the only reason that their servers wouldn't be able to handle housing would be if they didn't set up their servers to be expandable. In which case, I'd have to say that is poor design.

Of course you can't see why. It's because you haven't got a clue, like the rest of us, how the game is designed nor do you know how the servers are setup. You can't simple take content from one game and assume it will work in another just because it's there.


To finish off, OP, you constructed an ill-informed case for your thoughts against housing. You are using numbers that you simply can not back up in any way. On top of that, you are making assumptions on the system used to run the game without, what seems, any prior knowledge to how it is setup. Be that how their servers are setup, the actual equipment used, the programming done etc.

Ah, that's my point!

Congratulations, you have solved SE's problem! Now if YoshiP could just see this post...

That's not SE's problem, that's your problem. Who is to say that this housing system does not benefit SE? Afterall, it was stated in a Live Letter that it would be difficult to create housing like that in FFXI since it would require making several instances. So rather, the problem is that you don't like the feature and how it was implemented. Don't pawn it off as SE's problem.