Stormblood Housing Request

[Aldotsk]

They have the funds to get more of these housing servers but they won't. They like housing to be something 'prestigious' and difficult to get. They like the scarcity. Even if we had all the wards in the world, everyone would be rioting about how they have to live in a small cottage and not a mansion like they can afford.

Eventually once the game in general dies down, we'll see more housing love

Then make it difficult so that people can make this toxic community even more? Gotcha.

Once the game in general dies down, that's going to create even lesser wards. that is also if it will never happen in Balmung. Please don't make mythical assumptions hoping that apple will be dropping down into your mouth from that tree.

This game's housing system is broken and their set of mind in making it "difficult" to get is atrocious for 10+ million players when they have the accessibility to exploit and get 23 plots.

[Acilith]

I mean Wildstar was supposed to be THE MOST HARDCORE OF HARDCORE for HARDCORE RAIDERS ONLY! ...Now it's housingstar. For housing. That's all the game can boast it has. It's staying afloat by RPers alone. I don't think that day will come for FFXIV, but if it does, we'll finally see some housing changes. After all, housing is, entirely optional. It has little to do with actual content and people don't NEED it to go raiding savage content. I would rather have more dungeons+raids than more houses, any day of the week. Hands down, forever and ever. I assume they just don't see housing as all that pressing of an issue... yet. After Shirogane drops and they see that there's going to be no leftover empty houses on any server? Maybe we'll get more wards and that's the best we can hope for. I can't forsee them re-doing the entire system because two people have 28 houses. On one server. Out of the entire game.

Besides, it's not an exploit if you can do it and they let you do it. It's not an exploit if it isn't against the ToS. It just isn't. They set the requirements, and the people who own that entire ward on Mateus? Well they must have worked very hard to meet those requirements. Can you imagine leveling 8 or more characters and 8 or more FCs? The gil, I imagine wasn't too difficult to get on a server like that at the time they got it.

...And wait what, so it's ...I'm sorry try that again?

So it's TOO DIFFICULT for people to get, but it's not difficult enough because two people own 28 houses, for over a year, on a dead server ??? That server had more than that one ward empty at the time they bought their houses. They went there on purpose, to find an empty place.

[Aldotsk]

I mean Wildstar was supposed to be HARDCORE RAIDERS ONLY! ...Now it's housingstar.

Now see, you can't really compare Wildstar to FFXIV because Wildstar's MMO structure turned into F2P plus no additional contents were updated. FF14 is never going to that path for a very long time.

It's staying afloat by RPers alone. I don't think that day will come for FFXIV, but if it does, we'll finally see some housing changes. After all, housing is, entirely optional. It has little to do with actual content and people don't NEED it to go raiding savage content. I would rather have more dungeons+raids than more houses, any day of the week.

Again, you are missing the point that people outside of Mateus/Balmung do a lot of housing. Especially JPN players. If you look at Twitter/Reddit, most of them who share their housing designs are actually non Balmung/Mateus and non RPers. This game should never be dungeon/raiding focused.

[Aldotsk]

It's not an exploit if it isn't against the ToS. It just isn't. Well they must have worked very hard to meet those requirements. Can you imagine leveling 8 or more characters and 8 or more FCs? The gil, I imagine wasn't too difficult to get on a server like that at the time they got it.

Can you? Before Mateus moved in, it was a dead server to a point that there are some people who can't really sell items in the market boards due to lack of people willing to purchase it and lack of people willing to sell it. 24-28 houses full of small/medium is literally 96-150 million gil. The person possible bought gil to buy those houses. Who knows?

You are not trying to help this housing system to be resolved. But instead you are basically making an implication of "Don't bother fixing this system. It's not necessary." in a thread full of people who wishes this system to be fixed since 2.1

[Acilith]

I'm mostly saying there's no easy way to fix it. People think one house per account will fix it? It won't. Not by a long shot. One house per account may free up ...I'm going to be GENEROUS and say it'll free up about one ward on each server. And that's me being very generous. (Ok maybe a few more than a ward on Mateus lolol)


...That still leaves thousands without a house. Thousands unhappy. Thousands told to MOVE TO A DEAD SERVER and even when they do there's not enough. The only way to fix this, is to literally triple the amount of housing we have now. Or maybe that's not being generous enough. And they just won't do it.

[Grimmel]

Really what SE need to do to make a big difference is have residency shared across all characters on the server. This would mean that if one of your characters buys a house, your alts on the same server have access to it too. On top of that change it so that only one personal house and one fc house can be owned per server.

All this together would mean the most a single player can have on a server is two houses, unless they have multiple accounts. One fc house per server may seem harsh on paper, but really it's incredibly rare for a player to be managing multiple active fcs.

Except people do manage multiple FC's. I manage two FC's both with houses and both FC's are active. Even if it's rarely done it's still done and this proposal would be destroying big and active FC's due to the loss of their FC estate.