This is getting silly, just create instanced housing already...

[worldofneil]

If it'd stayed FCs only, then there'd be open houses and people wouldn't be abusing their system. (Which I admit is rather poorly put together.)

They would though, people already level up multiple characters (each with their own FC) so they can get multiple FC houses and give each the same short tag (so they can brag about it?). I used to think that was a lot of hassle, but I've since realised it's really not since you only need to level *1* character to 50 (to initially buy each house). After that the FC is "transferred" to a level 1 alt and then that person would leave and start a new FC to rank that up to rank 6 and repeat.

Sure getting rank 6 takes some effort, but for someone who actively plays, that's happening in the background with a lot of things they do and I'm sure there's things you can do to accelerate it (focus on company hand ins or GC levequests perhaps?). If you have a few people in the same group who do this then it'd be even faster to level them up (although then obviously it's not a single person owning the houses, but an FC owning multiple houses if that makes any difference?).

I do appreciate what you're saying, but when a system lets people do something, you can bet people will do it, especially since it's not against any rules. SE let's us have 8 separate characters per server on the normal account and if they only wanted us to be a single character, they'd only let us have 1 per account.

[dejiko_san]

Are you forgetting that server transfers cost real money? Asking people to spend $18 (not to mention all but 1million of their gil), for a chance at finding open housing is utterly ridiculous.

Now, assuming you're not a legacy player, you spend $15 a month on sub for this game. What's another one-time fee of $18 to get open plots? If you play for a year, that's only a 9% outlay.

There's a ton of open plots on Mateus, it's just whether you're interested in paying $18 to get a plot now or hoping Square Enix doesn't jack up the price of housing.

I want neighbors... so come to Mateus. :P

*Mateus high five!*

We have tons of housing as I'm sure other small severs do as well. If you don't want to spend money you can also make a new character to mess around with the house features. A small is only about 1M on our server so it doesn't take long to get with all the money you get from the main storyline.

[Zyama]

I have friends that have been busting their butts to save money for a house and have flat out said if they don't get one they'll walk. Not good advertising.

[Youkulm]

I agree, its terrible advertising on SE's part.

Also Balmung is the worst server to join if you want a house lol!

[Lexia]

I have friends that have been busting their butts to save money for a house and have flat out said if they don't get one they'll walk. Not good advertising.

Being on Balmung they better be ready to be online at like 6am patch day.

[Youkulm]

Being on Balmung they better be ready to be online at like 6am patch day.

Heck I would be on before that spamming the patcher. lol. Balmung is cutthroat in the housing market. Going to be lots of sad people.

I still can't believe they didn't at least double the plots. What is SE thinking? lol

[worldofneil]

Being on Balmung they better be ready to be online at like 6am patch day.

Yeh... but that's one of the drawbacks of being on the most overpopulated server... They really need to flat out stop letting people join at all before it explodes

[burpinflyz]

Housing has evolved over the last few decades, from a simple place to store items, to a very personal reflection of personality. One of the mmo's ive been involved with for more that 15 years evolved housing into a major Virtual Store pay to play gold mine. Not only can you earn houses via questing, membership, and traditional means, you can also purchase one from a vast array of models and landscapes. In addition to this, you can also build anything your heart desires, piece by piece, block by block with no restrictions on item limits.

Crafting and non "hack and slash" gamers have entrenched themselves and demanded this niche be accepted as viable and legitimate. And from this movement, new $€£¥ has surfaced. Square Enix has a solid product, 15 Million strong and growing. But for those of us who like to sheath ours blades and hop out of the grind, it would be nice to putter around the homestead, with endless possibilities at our calloused fingertips.

[crc0427]

I'm fairly certain the apartments are the fix.

[Youkulm]

The apartments will help for sure, but only if they have all the same amenities as houses... stables... gardens ( for cross breeding, not stupid glamour flower pots we are getting )

same amount of NPCs for every size house / apartment as well would cut down on the viciousness of the market