Only 1536 apartments per server?

[FoxyAreku]

Price you pay for being on Balmung tbh.

Though I really don't see how an 'apartment' is any different than an FC room...which is limitless. I guess because you'll have neighbors this time?

*shrug*

[Yudzster]

suck it up

[Jynx]

let me spell it out, in more blunt terms.

No let me spell it out for you in more blunt terms.

Square Enix has bungled the housing situation from the very start. The second they gave individual players the ability to purchase company housing plots. Every single thing they have done from then has been trying to put band-aids on a burgeoning system they have no chances to control or provide for players as with their original promises. They continue to put these stop-gap measures into place when they should be swallowing the hard pill and admitting they goofed and need to rework the whole system from the ground up.

But they wont, they have no incentive to fix the system properly when they can continue to mangle the current system.

[Hyrist]

No let me spell it out for you in more blunt terms.

Square Enix has bungled the housing situation from the very start. The second they gave individual players the ability to purchase company housing plots. Every single thing they have done from then has been trying to put band-aids on a burgeoning system they have no chances to control or provide for players as with their original promises. They continue to put these stop-gap measures into place when they should be swallowing the hard pill and admitting they goofed and need to rework the whole system from the ground up.

But they wont, they have no incentive to fix the system properly when they can continue to mangle the current system.

If you think the mistake began with the Personal Housing system, you're sorely mistaken.

The problem is STARTING with a public instancing system on an infrastructure that could not support four times as many players as they initially anticipated. Everything else has been bandaids since then.

They should have started with the apartment system, then moved onto FC and Private housing, but Yoshida was married to a promise that was made back in 1.xx - and instead of abandoning it, he developed himself into a corner he's not getting out of for another three years.

[birdy_reene]

taking the numbers from the inofficial census... the average server has 5-8k active people, the smallest 4k. there is NO server wich is small enough so everyone can have a house...

Well, I'll bet if you make an alt on Zalera, and go to the housing district, goblet Ward 11 has only 7 houses in it, and ward 12(I live in ward 12) has 3. That's a lot of open, unsold lots. There is spotted housing still open in the new wards in LB and mist. Sooooo you explain that one, Housing isn't a problem on every server

[Derio]

Can you own a house and apartment at the same damn time?

[LunaFaye]

Can you own a house and apartment at the same damn time?

Gotta wait for the 2nd part of that live letter and hope that someone answers that question. As it stands right now, there's no official statement about the requirements or restrictions of the apartments. But I would assume that if you own a house that you can not own a apartment, on the other hand, SE made a lot of questionable decisions and it wouldn't surprise me if at the end of the day, people could own both. We just have to wait I guess.

[Ilenya]

Price you pay for being on Balmung tbh.

Am I the only person who could only go on 4 (I think) servers when 2.0 came out who finds this statement rude?

[Jynx]

They should have started with the apartment system.

Having physical housing for companies makes sense, personal player housing obviously didn't. They from day 1 stated that personal housing would (Obviously) be a totally seperate system, the lazy decision to flip the ownership switch to individual players is what damned them from that day forward.

If they continued to develop the personal housing system as a separate system that could accommodate all players they wouldn't be in this mess. Wether they did it first or last isn't the issue, it's the fact they got lazy and just decided to repurpose the current FC housing system.

[SagaSoluna]

I am a bit confused as to how can people defend SE on this when other games with 1/1000 of FFXIV´s budget and profit produce much better, completely free, and available for all housing systems.
PSO2, the game that often crossovers FFIXV, is one of them...

In that game i have a four room apartment with a built in shop and a crafting station other players can come visit, purchase from, and even order crafting recipes that i can make for them in exchange for a pre-arranged fee.

And it´s free to play...