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

[Youkulm]

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.

I see you're on a midpop server. That must have been real hard for you. /s

I'm speaking as someone that does have housing. So please do climb off your horse.

[Riktus]

I love how all of the people white knighting square in this thread have mentioned they have housing themselves lol

[Youkulm]

I love how all of the people white knighting square in this thread have mentioned they have housing themselves lol

Lol right? It's pretty typical in these threads. It's sadly common to see the "Lol I have a house and you don't, you must totally suck at the game! It's not SE's fault it's totally yours!"

[Okamimaru]

There doesn't need to be housing for everyone... there just needs to be no content locked behind it... SE screwed up adding content that can only be accessed from something like housing... adding public workshops and flowerboxes that allows crossbreeding of plants for apartments would help alot... it would also take much less work than totally rebuilding housing from the ground up...

[NanaWiloh]

The housing system is far from the best no argument on that one. For those who want a house depending on your realms population, the best suggestion I can give is this. Log out in your housing ward next too the npc who shows the ward list. Then log in once a day and check the ward list for open plots. Make sure too keep the gil you need to purchase a plot on you. This is not the best answer too the problem but if you set on getting a plot its one of your best options. Last spare me excuses as too why you can't log in for 5 minutes too check a list, no one is so busy they can not do this simple task. Not trying to offend anyone but saying you can't spare 5 minutes is not acceptable.

[HyoMinPark]

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.

To which SE says "blah blah server limitations blah blah PS6 limitations."

And about showing off your yard decorum, the wards are practically dead anyways so, who cares? Less than 20% of the current active population will ever own a house--if everyone only owned one and not multiples it would only move up to 23% of the active population, assuming the current census of 800~900k active players is accurate. Instanced housing is the way to go since SE always talks about how their servers can't handle more than 12 wards per housing area per server; no one really cares about your yard decorum more than they would care about having an equal shoot at a house.

Right now, the only way to get one is if you have obscene amounts of gil to purchase one "illegally" (not buying from the placard but from another player) or if you just happen to be lucky enough and come across an open plot. Or, you know, play on an SSD and don't get thrown in a 1,000-person queue on days when new wards go live.

I love how all of the people white knighting square in this thread have mentioned they have housing themselves lol

There have actually been a few people with housing who still said the system sucks. Please don't make sweeping generalizations. I own an FC house and I still think (and have always thought) the housing system in this game is garbage.

[Aldotsk]

For those who want a house depending on your realms population, the best suggestion I can give is this. Log out in your housing ward next too the npc who shows the ward list. Then log in once a day and check the ward list for open plots. This is not the best answer too the problem but if you set on getting a plot its one of your best options. Last spare me excuses as too why you can't log in for 5 minutes too check a list, no one is so busy they can not do this simple task. Not trying to offend anyone but saying you can't spare 5 minutes is not acceptable.

You do realize that they boot the players out of the Housing Zone when they are unlocking the purchase option, right? There were people who tried to do same attempt for 2.3, and they were sent back out of the zone.

Also, even if it did work - this only works for Ward 1 for Shirogane. Not for other 11 wards since they are just completely locked.

[gbe931]

Welp, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. If I don't score a plot the instant ther servers come up, I'm just going to let it lapse and not care.

Things the dev team care about:

A Cash Shop where you can now buy Jump Potions for RETAINERS and eventually a flaming Segway from the Chinese servers.

Perform emotes that no one asked for.

Failed content like LoV and Diadem (twice failed)

Things they don't care about:

Actually implementing solutions that solve the Housing issue after 3 Years of inaction and silence while even allowing 2 people to buy an entire ward, therefore fostering a black market of house flipping.

[gbe931]

You want to know how little SE cares about the housing situation that most players are asking they fix? With Shirogane housing coming and something most people are worried about? Then look no further than their priority above and the date.

The community team considers DYEABLE GEAR something of worth to pass on to the dev team ASAP for consideration and not anything related to solutions for Housing for the VAST MAJORITY of the player base. This is how you know anyone at SE does not care about addressing housing in any meaningful capacity.

[Riktus]

There have actually been a few people with housing who still said the system sucks. Please don't make sweeping generalizations. I own an FC house and I still think (and have always thought) the housing system in this game is garbage.

Huh? Where did I make sweeping generalizations? I said the people in this thread that have white knighted square have also mentioned they have housing. No where did I say anything about all people with housing lol.