Can we as paying customers agree the lack of Housing is simply unacceptable to SE?

[SokiYagami]

I have a house. speak for yourself.

Same here, got a house myself but still find the situation pretty ridiculous. Ideally having infinite wards with active community is the target but that won't happen ever, or at least in the near future. Granted instance housing might remove the "community" feeling some of you might be enjoying (if it isn't a ghost town on your server), but having instance housing will theoretically provide much more players with a chance to get their own personal house.

I still think the current warding should be limited to FC house only (not gonna touch on one-man FC), then implement fully-instanced, upgradeable plots for personal housing. That would probably serve as a nice middle ground to keep the delicate balance between a lively community ward and enough dynamic resources for a good portion of players to obtain their personal house. Hopefully SE can consider this.

This games forums are always amazing how there is always someone that will argue tooth and nail against improving the game, QoL or otherwise. Meanwhile SE would rather scalp the game for more money than invest in fixing this mess.

Ikr? :/

[Youkulm]

Fellow Annoyed Customer

I’m sure many people agree that it is 100% unacceptable, but after 3 years of no response from SE genuinely fixing the housing issues: I like to think we’re kind of beaten down. It's clear they don't seem to care that housing isn't available to all their customers. Hell they still advertise is as an end-game feature on the EU promotional site ( can someone correct me if I’m wrong? ). How is that even OK? "Come play our game for our awesome housing system! Lol JK!!!! You'll never get a house Hahaha"

I really think their opinion is skewed by the JP servers. Correct me if im wrong but they have 3 datacenters and a majority of their servers are MUCH smaller than the EU and NA servers, which means less competition for housing to begin with. I'm not saying they don't have a housing shortage like us but it surely effects their opinion on the problem.


Yes, they instituted housing demolition over time. Yes, they added more wards. But were these solutions to bigger problems ( Not enough houses for each customer, People buying more than 1 house on an account, people not even using their houses, People sniping houses to resell them at 2x-30x the price, I could go on )? No this didn't solve any of these issues.

Do I want a personal house? Absolutely. Will I ever get it? I'm not even going to try... I was lucky enough to land in a house for my FC and until the problems are fixed I try not to think about it too hard. I understand the squeaky wheel gets the grease but this subject is always squeaky...

As much as some people are annoyed to see ANOTHER thread about this.. I'm not. Unless people do keep speaking up about it, they'll do nothing.

[Aldotsk]

If people are annoyed about same threads being made in this Housing forum section, then they should really not be here. When people make multiple same topic threads regards to what they are upset about, there is always a good reason why it happens.

Housing system had issues for 4 years and it has not been fixed and instead they always made excuses about how they don't have luxury and budget to add more servers into the wards.

The only reason I am kind of being lenient on their excuse for 12 wards only in Shirogane is because they are too occupied with new swimming system into all 4 zones. Otherwise, I'd be infuriated.

[LittleSparrow]

I hope to GOD they don't do instanced housing. That would make everything so inconvenient, and I couldn't show off mine and my wifes gardening skills either.

Try harder. If you try hard enough you will get a house. If you slack around, hope for a shout or check once a week you won't.

[LittleSparrow]

I’m sure many people agree that it is 100% unacceptable, but after 3 years of no response from SE genuinely fixing the housing issues: I like to think we’re kind of beaten down. It's clear they don't seem to care that housing isn't available to all their customers. Hell they still advertise is as an end-game feature on the EU promotional site ( can someone correct me if I’m wrong? ). How is that even OK? "Come play our game for our awesome housing system! Lol JK!!!! You'll never get a house Hahaha"

I and my wife haven't even been playing for half a year and we both have houses. This is just people that are not willing to dedicate complaining that people who are willing to dedicate actually get houses and they don't. Checking residential areas once a week is not dedicating. Checking reddit to illegally buy houses is not dedicating. Waiting for a shout is not dedicating.

[LittleSparrow]

I honestly think that they should move to instanced housing. Most Wards on my server are pretty dead, and while they're pretty, I would rather have the shift to instanced housing so that everyone can have a house. If FFXI can give every player instanced Moghouses, then why can't this game? Yeah, I'd miss decorating the yard but I don't really care too much about that if we could get nice instanced housing.

Instanced housing is by far one of the worst ways of handling the housing problem. The only way this can possibly be fixed is to simply add more wards. Instanced housing, pff. Get outta here.

[Aldotsk]

You really would need 50+ wards at this point for anyone to not complain and also it requires small housing to be upgradeable to med/large for everyone to be satisfied.

[LittleSparrow]

You really would need 50+ wards at this point for anyone to not complain and also it requires small housing to be upgradeable to med/large for everyone to be satisfied.

At every point in every game people will always complain about everything.

[Aldotsk]

At every point in every game people will always complain about everything.

And yet housing system is always the problem in this game. For 4 years it's not been properly fixed.

[Elamys]

I hope to GOD they don't do instanced housing. That would make everything so inconvenient, and I couldn't show off mine and my wifes gardening skills either.

Try harder. If you try hard enough you will get a house. If you slack around, hope for a shout or check once a week you won't.

My god, no. You can't just count on everyone being willing to give up their house if you butter them up enough. Get outta here with that nonsense.

It's a really BASIC math problem. There are more players than there are houses. That's it. That's literally all you need to prove that the housing system is terrible.