With all this housing drama going on...

[Dyvid]

That burden isn't on us as a fanbase. At this point you are just being contrarian as an exercise. We can make a list of demands but it doesn't really matter. What matters is no repeats of what has already occurred. Instead of trying to poke holes in people's comments, perhaps you could lend your own instead of speaking for the devs themselves. No one is so stupid to think they set out with intention of trying to piss everyone off. Of course not, but they need to do better next time. We're here to remind them of that. We're not asking for something outlandish like what happened in 2.1. What they do need it to have their content functioning and not gated behind walls that are artificially insurmountable due to inaction on part of the devs(e.g. housing).

Honestly I'm a little shocked by someone who played in v1 saying player feedback doesn't matter because even I know this isn't true. The burden is on the fanbase to tell the devs what they want and what they expect. It's on use to give feedback and suggestion to the dev otherwise we have no room to complain. As for the put up or shut up part, here are my suggestion threads related to housing:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ditional-Wards
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-to-the-system.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...or-Player-Inns.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ivate-Chambers
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-tabletop-Food

So no, I'm not being contrarian as an exercise. I'm asking the community to be helpfully involved with issue they care about. Got a good idea to make things better, post it.

[Melchar]

Thanks Dyvid, I had my suspiscions! If you want to twist my words that's fine. What I am saying is for a short term solution it doesn't matter as much as a long term one. I know this as well as anyone. Great job on speaking before you have quite a pedigree. Instead of shutting down other folks, you can lend your voice as you have in the past. Now we can continue the discussion!

[Sterne]

So no, I'm not being contrarian as an exercise. I'm asking the community to be helpfully involved with issue they care about. Got a good idea to make things better, post it.

We are being helpful. If they don't know how we feel how can they make this game better? Notice how none of us (for the most part) have torn down the devs and said they're terrible or negated all the work they did for us in 1.0.

I too am a 1.0 vet, and this is still hard for me to swallow with all that's come around it.

So again, we are doing our best as a fanbase to give the devs what they need to do their job. Feedback.

If this is not good enough for you or you think you do a better job at it then the rest of us, then I guess we'll always disappoint you.

The devs however, will continue to hear our voices and perhaps know where to focus their efforts in improving the game in all the wonderful ways they already have and more.

I look forward to it. Don't be mistaken.

[Dyvid]

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I think we are disagreeing on best method to speak with the development team as customers. A key thing I go by is, sometimes general feedback is good and other times specific feedback is more suited. In regards to adding wards, I thought specifics was more important. Balmung and Adamantoise share the same data center so we are using the same rubber band so to speak. I can also say I understand Balmung has a huge demand for housing where Adamantoise doesn't. The point of my feedback was to suggest to the devs instead of add a blanket 5 wards per server, reallocated the resources to the people that need it. In other words, instead of 5 wards between us give Adamantoise 2 new wards and Balmung 8 new wards. Give the supply where the demand is.

I too am upset over housing availability and want to get past this hurdle as quick as possible so we can start adding fun things to it. I also think the devs need specific feedback on housing fix because they know we are angry but it's clear they needed better feedback over how to fix it since it's been 2 years since 2.1 and we are still fighting over lots.

But I also acknowledge they have giving us a game plan and it sounds like it mergers player suggestion and actually implementation. Anyway I'm going to bow out of this specific discussion. The Housing Forums has some good ideas if you want to check it out.

[Melchar]

I will go there Dyvid! And thank you for this . The more places that your suggestion is the seen the better!

I speak for myself, but I wish I had known more about you a few pages earlier. In any case, thank you for taking the time to make things better with us.

[Stormrider]

Quality Ideas, reasonably presented.

You seem to have given the development team a lot of credit and leeway.At what point do you consider they have failed at their job to provide equal content for all players? This is what I consider equal just so you know. If all wards are full new wards are added no less then every 45 days till the amount has exceeded demand. This does not mean everyone is entitled to large or medium or mist or ishgard. But no one who has reached the gil amount can go buy one or reasonably plan for the next ward.

Not you specifically, but lots of people are they have a plan its 3.3. Let us consider May as a release date for 3.3. That will be 17 months where houses have not been available on at least one server. I do not count the less then 15 mins on Christmas day as available. Is 17 months an acceptable road map to give people the benefit of the doubt. In those 17 months they have added Gold saucer and all it entails, yet have been unable to fix housing. Then they added more Gold Saucer content Lord of Vermillion that on most servers has been DOA.

Now they have been unable to get housing to work to what i have described as reasonable. Yet have spent time designing bikes. Spent time putting themselves into fates. Spent time traveling the world for festivals. Had repeated Live Letters, answered questions about when can I buy the plushie. Yet have not out and said what the current housing system can and can't do. I do not like the current inventory issue. But I understand they have addressed why players can't carry more. Why have we not seen more wards? Did they make a choice to give servers to rarely used content (hate to bash golden saucer again). Was there a place to discuss what we wanted resources used on?