Double the Housing Wards Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Azriael-Rakon]

I can't be the only player to think that owning more than 1 or 2 houses ( a personal and a FC house) is wrong. Square Enix is dropping the ball on this so hard. It's a bad joke. People that own more than 2 houses, one personal and one FC, should be given a 30 day window to pick the houses they want to keep. Once they pick their houses, the others get demolished and nothing is saved. Serves them right for being greedy and monopolizing an already extremely rare resource. Or an easier and faster way to solve this problem, double or triple the housing wards on all servers. Also, just throwing this out there, but does it not seem stupid that a player can buy as many houses as they want/ can get land for, but you can only buy one apartment..... that's backwards and really really dumb on the devs part. We the players, who pay a lot of USD for FFXIV, DEMAND that something be done to solve this problem.

I'm going to keep posting this problem until something is done about it.

[BorisDaBlade]

Welcome to the forums, and what a wonderful first post! You're gonna do great here.

Yep, you're not the only one who thinks like that. There's probably 50+ threads complaining about the whole thing.

[OoglieBooglie]

Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism, where adding features costs money. Could they afford it? Sure. Will they lose more money in lost subs than the cost of the servers by not adding more wards? I doubt it.

Also, if I recall correctly, Mateus is/was one of the lower population servers, and the housing wasn't even full there until relatively recently (from what I hear). Why are you DEMANDING that people lose what they paid for when there were still empty plots when people bought the extras on their other characters?

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Also, if I recall correctly, Mateus is/was one of the lower population servers, and the housing wasn't even full there until relatively recently (from what I hear). Why are you DEMANDING that people lose what they paid for when there were still empty plots when people bought the extras on their other characters?

People who think it will remain empty are either stupid or deluded. I have seen people with 8 houses recently on my server some with 4 it's ridiculous.

[OoglieBooglie]

People who think it will remain empty are either stupid or deluded. I have seen people with 8 houses recently on my server some with 4 it's ridiculous.

I never said it would always be empty.

[Pence]

Also, just throwing this out there, but does it not seem stupid that a player can buy as many houses as they want/ can get land for, but you can only buy one apartment..... that's backwards and really really dumb on the devs part..

Or it shows that SE has been listening to feedback and is incorporating it into their design now: limit the amount of housing resources a single player can own.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I never said it would always be empty.

No you said, "Why are you DEMANDING that people lose what they paid for when there were still empty plots when people bought the extras on their other characters?"

You were justifying people buying extra houses on alts because they were available. So that is assuming that no one else would ever want a house or the wards would remain empty. Unless you are condoning people owning 16 houses and being little greedy <insert profanity>s.

[Niraves]

I transferred to a new realm and all the houses were already purchased by other players! This is unacceptable SE! I DEMAND THAT YOU DO SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE LIKE TAKE HOUSES AWAY FROM THOSE OTHER PLAYERS SO I CAN HAVE ONE! Whine! Cry! Rage! Complain! Rawwwr! End quote.

[worldofneil]

easier and faster way to solve this problem, double or triple the housing wards on all servers

Unfortunately not really an option due to how they were designed. Each housing ward is actually a zone, not an instance, which means it's always running. That means there's 72 housing zones per server (12 wards and 2 subdivisions and 3 areas). That's more zones than every other zone in the game combined. Now multiply it by 66 servers, that's 4,752 zones they have to keep running all the time, just for housing.

Although we don't know for sure, it's quite likely that Shirogane will have 12 wards to match the others so that's another 24 wards/zones per server, bringing the total they have to constantly keep running to 6,336. Ouch.

I agree with you it would be great if they could just add more wards, but as we've seen in the past it takes them a lot of time/effort to do that and they've said themselves if they could just add more zones that easily, they would.

does it not seem stupid that a player can buy as many houses as they want/ can get land for, but you can only buy one apartment

Sorry, but that's not quite true, you can't buy as many as they want. Each character can buy one personal house, one house for a Free Company and one apartment.

So technically an account with 8 characters on the same world could buy 8 personal houses, 8 FC houses and 8 apartments on the same world.

Someone can't just create a new character and straight away buy one though, it's not that easy. Personal houses require level 50 and Second Lieutenant rank in the Grand Company. FC houses require that the FC is rank 6. Both of these are obviously doable, but still require some effort.

[Penthea]

SE have acknowledged the controversial housing issue numerous times, introduced some new features and restrictions but it has remained mostly the same despite it being a problem for many years now. Why? Most likely it's because it's not as simple as adding more wards.

If SE encounter complications with increasing character inventory slots due to server related issues, then something significantly more complex like housing would also be limited by the servers.

I'm not saying this is okay, I hate the current housing system. But XIV is pretty different to most mmos as its been built upon a badly designed game. SE had no choice, 2.0 had to be rushed before the fanbase completely lost faith and moved on. Many relics of 1.0 remain and maybe the way the servers are set up is being held back by some of these relics.

I'm hoping, but most assuredly not expecting, that when Shirogane becomes purchasable we'll see more than the standard 12 wards most of us are expecting. SE have been doing server updates and relocation recently, so it's not completely unreasonable to hope for this.