Ishgard Housing Transfer System Unfair

[Synrin]

It is a clear favor to those who already own a house, only allowing current home owners first dibs in Ishgard. Not surprising since housing is one of the most unfair things SE has rolled out thus far.

The only game I've seen where someone can own a home forever without even needing to log in during a certain timeframe to maintain ownership.

This is the point.

[Reinha]

It is a clear favor to those who already own a house, only allowing current home owners first dibs in Ishgard. Not surprising since housing is one of the most unfair things SE has rolled out thus far.

The only game I've seen where someone can own a home forever without even needing to log in during a certain timeframe to maintain ownership.

How is it first dibs if the transfer to Ishgard is made available exactly at the same time as house buying? Sounds to me like it's make things as equal as they can be. Everyone gets their chance as soon as servers open after patch and if any current house owner gets to move to Ishgard they free up their old house. Making the house owners have to get rid of their old house with no guarantee of a new one in a brand new area would be more unfair than giving everyone hassle-free access.

The second part of your post is outdated, and I for one am happy about it.

Well, to be fair, the post you quoted was posted in July last year. Unless you meant 'outdated' as in 'has since been changed' and not as in 'you need to update your information', of course. ^^

Yeah I meant that it has been changed. Quite a big necro this one.

[Noxifer]

The second part of your post is outdated, and I for one am happy about it.

Well, to be fair, the post you quoted was posted in July last year. Unless you meant 'outdated' as in 'has since been changed' and not as in 'you need to update your information', of course. ^^

[silentwindfr]

never it was said to allows owner of house advantage, he have always say wanting to add the transfert system before add ishgard... people read too much into it.

[CalCrazy]

Also, the whole point of it was because Yoshi wants the 3 main districts to be for FC's, not personal housing. If they allow personal housers to transfer to the Ishgard apartments, then those houses free up to serve their original purpose; aka to be locations for FC's. The fact that they didn't plan ahead for this conundrum of people wanting personal housing without being connected to an FC is what caused this mess in the first place; if they'd enacted personal housing-only subdivisions then they could have probably made Ishgard have actual housing and not apartments for personal use.

[Nezerius]

Also, the whole point of it was because Yoshi wants the 3 main districts to be for FC's, not personal housing. If they allow personal housers to transfer to the Ishgard apartments, then those houses free up to serve their original purpose; aka to be locations for FC's. The fact that they didn't plan ahead for this conundrum of people wanting personal housing without being connected to an FC is what caused this mess in the first place; if they'd enacted personal housing-only subdivisions then they could have probably made Ishgard have actual housing and not apartments for personal use.

The housing transfer system has nothing to do with the apartment system, nor is the apartment system tied to Ishgard. Apartments will be a feature in the current three housing districts, since Yoshi-P commented on the apartments having different designs for each of the three housing districts.
If they ever add an Ishgard district, it'll likely have both housing plots and apartments.

As for the housing transfer system, I'm not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but it's also important for FCs that want to move to a different district without losing their company workshop progress. Currently, an FC will lose that workshop progress when relinquishing a housing plot, and it's time consuming to start it over again.

[Nihility]

sounds to me like they'll just have a way when you buy a new house for it to auto-abandon old one and maybe a temporary chest of your stuff pops up on the empty plot rather than have to lose all your stuff and tear down your old house and manually abandon it before hand

just a convenience issue, it will still empty a plot in exchange for the new one

[Ashewalker]

I'm sorry but someone has to...

[Teryaani]

Holy necromancy batman!

I'd love to see the Ishgardian housing be something other than a ward system they're using now and used for personal instanced housing only with encouragement for players to move. For high population servers, this would free up some real estate for FCs that want to get housing and also spoil (some of) the efforts of the jerks that buy up swaths of housing for resale.

[Lithe]

What if Ishgard ends up being a snowy version of the Goblet? c: