Forcing players to pay to keep housing is unfair.

[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.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Only thing I would say should change is, anyone you add to your personal house resets the timer.

[Naunet]

If you ever played Wildstar, you may understand why their housing (while amazing) lacked a real sense of location. You had "neighbors" at random, and were literally floating alone in the sky. I would really argue against losing the overworld aspect.

I play WildStar, and I couldn't disagree more. The level of immersion you can obtain in WildStar's housing system negates the need for visible neighbors. I can create an entire city on my own plot. Hell, with the right finagling you can even create a seemingly endless horizon for a beautiful beach view or mountainscape or whatever else. As a housing enthusiast, FFXIV's housing definitely does not stir much excitement.

Plus, we are getting Communities soon, where we will be able to link up plots together into a massive structure.

[Cylla]

Only thing I would say should change is, anyone you add to your personal house resets the timer.

That would be a slight fix for anyone who share their personal house with another but again is only a band aid fix. It does annoy me that FC's with a house get this right but people with a personal house don't.

[Elim]

I'm a house owner(a mansion, so I put a ton of gil into my place) and a raider. I mention raider because once I clear everything current there's not much left that interests me.

But I don't agree with the OP. I think it's reasonable, at very least for the larger servers where housing is scarce.

[Kiriezaiku]

Only thing I would say should change is, anyone you add to your personal house resets the timer.

Pretty much this.
As a personal house owner, if for some reason I couldn't access the game but was still keeping up my sub, anyone we have as a tenant should be able to go play in my house and stop the demo just like a fc.
Because honestly, some of the fc out there are just personal houses with a 2-man fc simply to have access to company chest, etc.

[LaylaTsarra]

Pretty much this.
As a personal house owner, if for some reason I couldn't access the game but was still keeping up my sub, anyone we have as a tenant should be able to go play in my house and stop the demo just like a fc.
Because honestly, some of the fc out there are just personal houses with a 2-man fc simply to have access to company chest, etc.

Pretty sad that a personal house doesn't have it's own Chest for storing items apart from your retainers. And FC chests while I'm at it are woefully inadequate. 3 pages for a large FC is silly. It's no wonder why people get around these issues with small FC's and the use of alts to make it easier to store and stare/trade items.

[CosmicKirby]

Snip snoop.

Am I right on the 'specifics'? Of course not. But from the groans and strains that Yoshi gives whenever someone asks for a rather complicated feature during a Liveletter, it's quite clear it's a large undertaking to do something as large as an unlimited amount of housing, one that would only grow progressively larger for as long as the game is alive.

So, the unfortunate reality is, with the current development process, there's an opportunity cost to drastically changing direction from the current roadmap. If they were to really go and try to implement this, they'd have to sacrifice 'something' from the patch cycle we're used to.

So what's more important, continuing the formula that has been successful so far, or focusing on a somewhat popular feature that most players don't heavily focus on, even if they participate in the content on some level.

[ThePatron13]

Here's a baffling question for you disregarding the fairness of the demolition period, if everyone wants instanced housing so much, regardless of size, why does barely anyone get apartments? Low cost, you get your own space, and no demolition timer. The simple fact is people care far less when it's a non-community thing that feels like far less of a prize and no one but you will care about. No one ever gave a crap to enter my Mog House on FFXI, nor did I ever bother entering the Mog House of anyone else, but on XIV I've done so on plenty of occasions. Does no one really see -any- value in the housing zones?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Here's a baffling question for you disregarding the fairness of the demolition period, if everyone wants instanced housing so much, regardless of size, why does barely anyone get apartments? Low cost, you get your own space, and no demolition timer. The simple fact is people care far less when it's a non-community thing that feels like far less of a prize and no one but you will care about. No one ever gave a crap to enter my Mog House on FFXI, nor did I ever bother entering the Mog House of anyone else, but on XIV I've done so on plenty of occasions. Does no one really see -any- value in the housing zones?

Yes and no. Apartments have sold out on larger servers, but I suspect people dislike them as a solution because they're basically a FC room. They want more space, and I can't exactly fault them for that when instanced housing would actually fixed the issue. I can't speak for anyone except myself, however... the only time I even bothered looking at another house is spur of the moment decorating inspiration or someone's hosting an event. Both those things would be possible with instanced housing. The current system feels akin to Grand Company restrictions-- something the devs clung to for years due to lore reasons despite it contributing heavily in PvP's declining interest. They want to encourage social interaction and a sense of being apart of the neighbourhood, but that isn't what most people want or care about.