so, why is SE support jobless people?

[Vaer]

If S-E wanted to, they could disable Shirogane housing on a data centre basis, and then activating it at an ideal time per region.

Why they chose not to do this is baffling.

I mean they could do that but having the entire server camp at the signposts seems like a good way to generate mountains of salt. Signpost wars does sound funny though. They could lock people out of the wards entirely but then the housing wards will probably lag/potentially crash from the entire server trying to zone into them at once. This would only happen on highly populated servers but low pop servers probably won't sell out very fast anyways even with the time being really early.

[Shihen]

Dropping the patch on a single day's notice would have been unfair. Not asking for a few hours off with over 2 weeks notice is just poor planning, friend.

[SuperionG1]

I wish I could feel some what slighted by this news, but having recently made the switch from World of Warcraft to FF I haven't the foggiest clue what type of impact having a house in this game makes. Does having a house basically allow for online peeps I don't know to come hang out with me? Does having a house offer some form of in game benefits for raiding, or doing dungeons? Is it more for show, a place to decorate, and place all my awards, trophy's and Accolades I have acquired over the course of playing Final Fantasy?

[Nerfworthy]

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It's basically a place for you and your friends to chill, inside or outside of the house. They are built like neighborhoods, where you can run around and check out other people's houses as well. You can decorate the outside and inside as well with things you craft yourself, or buy from the market. It's most definitely a place you can display your "trophies" (crafted items using materials only gained from raid bosses for example!). However it has no real impact on anything you do in the game if you don't own a house! It's just for funsies.

Edit: Almost forgot! Welcome to the game. I also came from WoW. It's better over here, trust me.

[SuperionG1]

It's basically a place for you and your friends to chill, inside or outside of the house. They are built like neighborhoods, where you can run around and check out other people's houses as well. You can decorate the outside and inside as well with things you craft yourself, or buy from the market. It's most definitely a place you can display your "trophies" (crafted items using materials only gained from raid bosses for example!). However it has no real impact on anything you do in the game if you don't own a house! It's just for funsies.

Edit: Almost forgot! Welcome to the game. I also came from WoW. It's better over here, trust me.

Thank You For the quick reply, as well as welcoming me to the game. I am enjoying the game thus far, everyone I have had contact with in game has also been really great as well.

[Ametrine]

If you're new and worried about housing, they have a second option in apartments. Each ward has a large building with large, single rooms you can purchase and freely decorate. They have a chocobo stable parked at the entrance for tenants to use, and inside is a lobby space with a few shopkeeps and a moogle mail npc.

Really, though, having a house/apartment IS the trophy. It has utilities like the aforementioned stables allowing for faster chocobo training, and gardening for certain materials. It really is more a place of personal expression as a player and a convenient gathering place for Free Companies and other social circles.

All in all, it's mostly vanity and a much needed money sink.

[Eloah]

I didn't read every post, but really? The patch cycles are always the same and the time for completion is always the same as well. The times for scheduled maint and the day a new patches arrive is given well enough in advance that if need be you can take off from work.

[Shori]

If S-E wanted to, they could disable Shirogane housing on a data centre basis, and then activating it at an ideal time per region.

Why they chose not to do this is baffling.

A theory being that if you do this when the majority of people are online the server will not be able to cope with the large numbers of people trying to teleport in. At least if its a quiet time of day people are more likely to come in smaller waves.

It does suck having to work when patches go up - maybe if you have a laptop you could tether it to your cell and log in at lunch?

[alimdia]

Supporting jobless people lol....sigh when you think you've seen everything something more outrageous pops up.

Although that phrase has no place here, it does have a place in other areas of the game (centurio tiger, astrope, both designed for NEETs)

[ChaoticCrimson]

I'd love an apartment in Shirogane, though I still have a bit of a ways to go to even get that far story-wise. And that's not even to speak of ranking up enough in my GC and gathering the gil needed for even just that lol.