Thanks for ruining Mateus, SE.

[Vhailor]

The OP should redirect his complaint. This isn't the fault of Balmung or SE's transfer policies; it's the fault, once again, of SE's absolutely ridiculous implementation of housing. It shouldn't be possible for there to be a shortage (and I'm sure the players on Balmung, who got a brief breath of fresh air on Mateus and other servers, feel similarly).

That being said, I'm not appreciating the transfer policies, either, particularly the removal of the Gil limit. I'd have been fine with it being increased from 1m, but did it have to be so drastic? Couldn't, say, 15m-25m been an acceptable range? And let's not forget that this is an entirely self-inflicted wound. SE could have completely locked character creation on Balmung and other high-population servers years ago, with gentle incentives for transfer. Or they could have upgraded their f*cking hardware when they moved data centres so as to be able to properly handle the larger worlds. Instead, as usual, they ignored the problem until it grew large enough to affect the stability of their data centres, and then threw a half-assed quick-fix at the community. As a result, smaller worlds are getting flooded (rather than slowly added to), producing an unnecessary and unpleasant shock to the system for people who have been enjoying the "quiet life" for years.

Absolutely ridiculous.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

No, no it is. As someone who routinely just checks houses (I love to peruse for new design ideas for my apartment!), most players have atrocious taste in design. I am not saying theirs is any better as I haven't really taken a look, but VERY few people follow a decent theme and instead through whatever guady thing they have crafted in their house.

I am actually rather proud of my apartment...

I think it turned out nice.



Though, I can't reall offer to show it to people who aren't already on balmung...

[Aldotsk]

Housing should have never been released like that since 2.1 and hear from people's opinions of what they want before they implemented this. Then 2.3 was another atrocity they implemented when they decided to put Free Company and Personal Housing in one ward. When YoshiP has implied that he would consider to make them both separate.

The housing system was broken since the first launch, and was never really resolved with massive wards or anything. It's not because they can't do it. It's because they never really felt that it was important feature in the game if it was compared to end games, story, and gameplay.

(By the way, Housing Players also pay subscription to this game and they enjoy decorating and crafting. They are actually the most devoted players in the community in my personal opinion)

[Priya]

1. Housing should not have been finite in implementation; every player should be guaranteed one, even if they would've had to instance it or something.
2. Housing should not have been attached to things like gardening/airships/etc; they should be cosmetic/vanity/funsies in nature only especially if they were going to be a finite resource.
3. If SE insists on keeping them finite, they should have been personal only with 1 house per account that every character on that account could use, or FC only with similar restrictions.

All anyone can do at this point is hope SE does something in the future: either caves and offers more housing servers, or implements some more restrictive rules and makes them retroactive. Report/blacklist/send suggestions to SE, etc. if you see unsavory housing practices that you want changed.

[dejiko_san]

Welp Mateus is closed off now!

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...06d0909189e479

　× Mateus

[Hasrat]

Congrats to us, I guess, for no longer being the dead server.

If we actually hold onto it for a few months, I might even consider finding a new one.

[ADVSS]

Glad I left Balmung for Zalera early this year, we're probably gonna get it next.

[Moonlite]

I am a little confused. Didn't everyone blame the players on Balmung for not having houses? It is a finite resource and you don't deserve it. When people tried to explain the math we were told to be quiet and get off Balmung the system is fine.

This is the system we have and they have shown it won't be fixed in 4.0 or you wouldn't see another housing district being added. Enough players are for(defend?) the current system. The few houses being added won't satiate the player base. Do the math of what you get for challenge log,dungeons,aquaoplis, sheer amount of vendored items. Gil is not a gate. I was doing 2 dragonskin maps a day, beast tribe, daily hunts, gc turn ins, and challenge log that finished. I was making about a million a week. Now imagine the Gil other people on Balmung must have been making. I wouldn't be surprised if Balmung had enough Gil to buy every house on every server at least once over. People were paying people 3 mill to vacate apartments.

But something strikes me as odd, besides the whole housing system. Are the inside of the houses are tied to the dungeon and quests servers? When they increased the number of instances for quests, people got locked out of their houses. Balmung already had lots of people afk in houses pre 4.0. Tin foil hat time. They haven't said they don't want everyone to have a house. But they don't have enough instances per data center and are afraid so they allow this gate to happen. I am sure some people remember waiting in ques when they didn't have enough level 50 instances. The game has to many instances and they just keep shuffling it around to try to hold it together.

[NanaWiloh]

Or they could have upgraded their f*cking hardware when they moved data centres so as to be able to properly handle the larger worlds. Instead, as usual, they ignored the problem until it grew large enough to affect the stability of their data centres, and then threw a half-assed quick-fix at the community. As a result, smaller worlds are getting flooded (rather than slowly added to), producing an unnecessary and unpleasant shock to the system for people who have been enjoying the "quiet life" for years.

Absolutely ridiculous.

You do understand the game is running on new servers. They did not take down several tons of server equipment ship it 1500 miles and set it all back up again in 48 hours. The current data center has all new servers that the game is currently running on.

[Parisstilton]

I have an alt have an alt on Mateus and 3 weeks ago when there where houses left, most of the smalls where 1.5mill and there was a medium on goblet for 9 mill. I personally would have had enough Gil to buy the medium and 5 of the smalls and I don't try that hard to make money. No matter what server you are on it isn't hard to make 1.5million. If people couldn't be bothered to do it they can't really complain now. Also the people that did do it shouldn't be hounded out of what they have if they are using it. They worked for it after all. Also saying someone should give up their house because you don't like the way they decorate? Wtf