Will we get a notice in advance on upcoming housing ward going live?

[RayneLittlewinkle]

I really hope they ban personal housing purchases in Shirogane for at least a week. At least give the homeless FC's a chance to grab something before the massive waves of house-broker alts swoops in.

I hope they do not do this. There is actual people who wants a personal home instead of trying to resell just to make gil

[Hazuki87]

They alrdy told us O.o patch 4.1, it to give new plays and old one time to finsh story, work on new raid and LV up to save Gil, give everyone a fighting chance at getting a house.(for you big serves)

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I'm hoping FCs get a few day head start before opening up to personal housing. My FC has an eye on a plot we want, but it would suck if they all got bought up by some person with way too much gil looking to sell the plots later for exorbitant amounts.

There are several of these resellers that have many characters in very low pop FC's with the intent of scalping on housing...

All with different names, but the same FC tag...



Limiting it to FC's only won't stop the scalpers.

[ChloeGrace]

The problem with limiting one house per account is that whoever has the FC house gets screwed over.

This would never have been a problem in the first place if they had separated personal and FC housing, and had made it instance-based instead of open-world zones.
Yoshida mentioned something about this being impossible due to the hardware requirements, around the HW launch IIRC. I would counter that it is indeed possible, just that he doesn't value the benefit as much as we do against the cost.
It's just one poor design decision after another, like putting another band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

[Youkulm]

I really hope they ban personal housing purchases in Shirogane for at least a week. At least give the homeless FC's a chance to grab something before the massive waves of house-broker alts swoops in.

Yes please. There is so much locked behind FC housing. What's locked beind personal housing? Your garden? lol ok thats totally comparable to airships and workshops which have the potential of making millions of gil.

Personal housing is so dumb. Should have never been a thing.

[Alice_89th]

I am more worried about only being able to access the first ward in Shirogane atm.
If all of them were open, people could spread to those wards in advance, essentially spreading the player base of all wards and their subwards.

[Chocolys]

I'm hoping FCs get a few day head start before opening up to personal housing. My FC has an eye on a plot we want, but it would suck if they all got bought up by some person with way too much gil looking to sell the plots later for exorbitant amounts.

Yeah I would like FC to have a head start too. Since houses are a limited resources, it's better when they're purchased by an FC because many players can enjoy it, instead of each personal house used by 1 or 2 players.

I am more worried about only being able to access the first ward in Shirogane atm.
If all of them were open, people could spread to those wards in advance, essentially spreading the player base of all wards and their subwards.

I assume the 12 wards will be opened by then, since SE already knowns they all gonna be occupied very quickly. Or maybe they could open first like 6 wards with a head start for FC, and then 6 more for everyone. In any case I certainly not expect only 1 ward to be opened when Housing goes live.

[Mysticales]

Great to hear they will tell us. Because yes.. I do wonder about the new transfer system. Since that will be a big part of things. Imagine.. finsing the new plot, old or new zone and you go to transfer. Bug, Glitch, Not Active Yet. Then you lost out. So yea, this time around. Hoping they explain the system.

[KarstenS]

I really hope they ban personal housing purchases in Shirogane for at least a week. At least give the homeless FC's a chance to grab something before the massive waves of house-broker alts swoops in.

Then the "house brokers" come with its 1 man FCs and still buy them. Thats no solution for this issue.

[worldofneil]

They alrdy told us O.o patch 4.1

Sorry, but no they haven't.

Yes they have said it would be after 4.0 so that it gives people a chance to see the new things, finish they story, etc., but they haven't set a specific date/time period, or a patch version.

If so, please reference where.