Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[Jijifli]

We have three(four) instanced player only areas? Inn rooms, FC rooms, apartments (haha), squadron rooms. They all have weird conditions that imply that they are instanced. Are you telling me they couldn't start by deleting all 4 of them and giving a small house plus yard. They are already using resources. We also have retainers that have inventory that is not persistent. If they need to have auto log out due to structure so be it.

If they had instanced houses and took down all the wards it seems like they would be less strain and more flexible.


To the SE apologists two things do the math from 3.0 to 4.0 launch and see how often we actually got the 5 updates in HW's. Second housing was first launched with 2.1 Dec 2013. We are going on four years with no improvement. Just piling on the same bad system. It is possible when they launch the new district they have some new design plan in place. But they have seriously shown they dig heals in for bad game design to think they are better then the other guys.

Inn rooms and Squadron rooms would take up much less. You can't place anything in there, so it's a lot less data (really, the only thing different between different squad rooms is 4-8 npc's.)

FC rooms and apartments are the exact same thing. Also, deleting them would cause player issue, due to the money spent to have those rooms, some having use outside of just being pretty (Roleplay.)

All I'm saying is there likely isn't enough to give everyone a house. I'm not saying they can't cut other things like fc rooms to do it. Something, at least right now, would have to get cut, and I'm sure that if they could, they would rework it.

[Moonlite]

FC rooms and apartments are the exact same thing. Also, deleting them would cause player issue, due to the money spent to have those rooms, some having use outside of just being pretty (Roleplay.)

All I'm saying is there likely isn't enough to give everyone a house. I'm not saying they can't cut other things like fc rooms to do it. Something, at least right now, would have to get cut, and I'm sure that if they could, they would rework it.

The problem is they have refused to admit they have a problem and keep building on a bad system. You might be right that to much time/investment has gone by for players. I guess it scales on the general fact that they do as they please with housing and players can go to (insert what ever word you feel like here).

I think you are wrong on the resources. This game double dips cash shop, sub, and a tiered pay for inventory. It is quite possible the design team just is unable to succeed. Other dev teams with less resources in other countries can provide housing. Yet this team can't.

The wards aren't instanced for the person above me. They are built into the very core of the game world. they are no more an instance then Northern Thanalan. That is why new wards always have to be added when game is down and must be equally added to all servers. Why they limit the wards because housing takes more zones then all the rest of the open world game. That was well thought.