More houses?

[Zelas]

SE, please. >.> A word on this?

[MistyMew]

They've stated that the feel that the number of housing is sufficient at the moment, which is total bollocks. However, we're stuck waiting anyways because the housing team is working on the Golden Saucer. And I believe they said that instead of focusing on adding more wards, they are going to improve housing instead. So...congrats to the people that own housing and get to enjoy said updates.

Please don't be that way, those improvements to housing are needed!! I am very vocal about what housing in here is lacking compared to Rift and make it a goal to try and get as much of that design in here one day hopefully.
Housing could have been so engaging and creative but currently it is not.

I own a FC home and a personal home and I am always in these threads trying to convince se to add more homes so ALL its player base can own what they want.
I will continue to support any thread that asks for more housing as I feel in a modern mmo, thinking so small is the worst thing a game can do.

I hope they do add as many as needed, I'm certain they have developers specific for each type of "content" housing changes do not affect dungeon design/raid teams...so those saying not to focus on housing is taking away from other content are wrong.

SE please do add many more homes...options to sell to other players would be nice too. I would have sold my personal home long ago if there was a realistic way for others to buy it without having to pay 2x as it is now for them.
Even if we could only resell back to SE if ppl are worried about players controlling too many homes etc...resell to SE for what we paid etc...

[Zelas]

SE please do add many more homes...options to sell to other players would be nice too. I would have sold my personal home long ago if there was a realistic way for others to buy it without having to pay 2x as it is now for them.

Ugh, this exactly.

I want to buy a home for my (small) FC, but there is NO way we could afford to pay twice for it. And that's IF we find someone who's even willing to sell to us. There HAS to be some way to resell a house that'd be fair to both parties. Right now, it's unfair to both, as sellers don't get back all of their money, and buyers have to pay twice, which makes no sense to me.

It'd be nice to at least have an official word as to if they're at least working on it, or if they have any plans for the (hopefully near) future...

[TheHubby]

I think it's FAAAAAAAR more important that the devs provide a LOT more housing than make it nicer for the chosen few who have a house. The fact they said there was enough housing shows just how far out of touch with reality the devs are. Of course, I've also head that the devs only pay attention to the Japanese forums, so we're probably all spinning our wheels here.

Ok Square, a challenge in 2 parts:

1. Reply to this thread with feedback.
2. Create a lot more housing.

Pass the challenge and I will happily post on every forum how I am wrong and you guys rock.


We'll see what happens next, I suppose.

[tocsin]

okay.

1. there have already been over a hundred posts made on this.

2. Housing was classified as met, because there are plots enough for the average amount of gil, as of last august. there ahs been a lot more gil, yes, but it still applies.

3. although housing is full on adamantoise and balmung, you are still free to transfer elsewhere. encouraged even. Housing is the "Carrot" to help SE balance server load.

4. no new wards until after 3.0. Already been announced. As they said, the Cash shop money is being used to fund the new EU datacenter, and the Heavensward money may be enough to upgrade the servers to support more subdivisions.

5. Exodus is far from the largest NA server. Balmung alone has it beaten by almost twice the amount of players.

6. Alternatively, if people aren't willing to wait, I think SE should use the "Stick" instead of the carrot. Close all new characters on Balmung, leviathan, Gilgamesh, and any other overfilled server until the population lowers. Zero new characters, at any time. Additionally, disincentives should be given to players who refuse to cooperate.

TL;DR there is plenty of housing, but players are not willing to put in the effort/money to get it, and would prefer it handed to them on a silver platter.

[Verdan]

There ISN'T enough housing in certain servers. It is disingenuous(at best) to say that housing needs are met. If you want people to transfer in order to get houses, you need to make transferring super easy and super easy all the time. Since it isn't and there's restrictions on legacy servers, you are not going to solve server loads via transferring for housing. It is incredibly stupid design to attempt that. A growing game can't put halts on an important part of their game and expect people to not complain. As sever populations rise, this will come to pass on many other worlds.

Y'all crabs gotta stop trying to pull people into the pot. Land needs are straight up not met on certain servers, and those on those servers have every right to complain as loud as they want.

[Nyonmyan]

You're calling people crabs while trying to get a house at expense of house owners on 64 servers. And you don't want to transfer because it's not "super easy all the time". Are you sure we are the issue and not you?

[TheHubby]

In reply to tocsin

1. Maybe that's because housing needs are not, in fact, even close to met.
2. See above. Many people could not pay the ludicrous prices Square set for housing.
3. Sure, as soon as you pay for me, my guild and all my friends to move to another server.
4. Plans can and should change when it's this obvious that you are alienating a large portion of your playerbase.
5. Agree here.
6. So you want Square to punish it's paying customers? Good Lord, I hope you don't run a business, because you have no clue what customer service is. I'll skip the comments on your intelligence that came to mind while reading this one.

TL;DR If you're happy with housing. go play the game and stop commenting on something that doesn't concern you.

[TheHubby]

You're calling people crabs while trying to get a house at expense of house owners on 64 servers. And you don't want to transfer because it's not "super easy all the time". Are you sure we are the issue and not you?

Can't wait for the answer to this one.. How exactly is adding more housing to meet the demand at the expense of other house owners? Is having a house something that makes you feel special? Because the only change for people with houses currently is... well, nothing at all.

[Nyonmyan]

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1. Land expansion and housing improvements are handled by the same team and won't be done at the same time.
2. Land expansion and housing improvements both require server load resource, which is limited.
Refer to
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...801-08-2015%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...809-11-2014%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-11-2014%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...er#post2740756
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t....38-and-Beyond
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ad#post2740759