Housing: there has to be a better way

[Nuna]

As an owner of a personal house I admit that this is true. But apartments and fc rooms have no outdoor space for decorating, they have extremely limited gardening and are a tiny indoor space. Until those are given a significant upgrade houses will always be much more desirable no matter how difficult they are to get.

Apartments should have been the size of the barracks and not the same size as a fc room. Or apartments should be tiered (small medium or large apartment) and able to be a shared estate (especially for bonded couples who can't afford a home). In addition to that, there should be an entrance (similar to the one you use to get to the workshop/rooms) that will take you to an instanced garden plot/balcony.

[Mycow8me]

Even Minfilia would agree.

[Khalithar]

The entire housing system is a mess and the devs have been told as such repeatedly from the very beginning. I will reiterate the point I’ve made in countless threads on this very same issue:

If you have the gil, you should be able to get a house, period.

[Joe777]

Not everybody cares for the 'neighbourhood feeling', though. When I played on Balmung my house was surrounded by people using the gaudy chocobo and paissa houses which really ruined the area for me. None of my neighbours were particularly social, either - I don't recall ever seeing them even though I spent a lot of time in my garden.

More wards, are, of course, very welcome though.

I've lived in my small Mist house since patch 3.3 - and I've never even said "Hi" to my neighbor. All I care is my house, inside and out, and how my yard looks like.

Rest of the area might as well be automatically built houses, I'm not interested in the house owners.

For tomorrow, my dream is to somehow manage to upgrade to medium sized house in Shirogane, but sadly the amount of medium houses is very small compared to small sized houses.

Both of these posts actually support the neighborhood feel. Good neighborhood, bad neighborhood, social neighbors, anti-social neighbors, it's the exact same as in real life. Hell I don't really socialize with my neighbors either lol and I will probably be the same in-game too when I get my house. However, I do take notice of when people move in and out of my FC Estate's neighborhood. It's the aesthetic feel that there actually is one instead of just going inside of an instanced house or a yard and a house floating in interdimensional space. Besides, how will I be able to hit someone's retainer they position too close to a striking dummy with Katon and then run before they suspect a thing in instanced housing?

...You heard nothing :|

[Elfidan]

The part that makes me laugh about this situation the most is how little use houses see even on high population servers. I'm sure it's a bit more lively on Balmung , but here on Ultros I rarely see anyone else in the housing district at all. Thirty houses in the zone every single one is owned but my guild of 4 people ,and one other up the hill are the only people who are ever there. Do people really need to own a house they visit once a month? On the other hand why did SE think a limited market was a good idea? For being a former MMO player Yoshi signs off on a lot of obvious problems.

[Cylla]

The part that makes me laugh about this situation the most is how little use houses see even on high population servers. I'm sure it's a bit more lively on Balmung , but here on Ultros I rarely see anyone else in the housing district at all. Thirty houses in the zone every single one is owned but my guild of 4 people ,and one other up the hill are the only people who are ever there. Do people really need to own a house they visit once a month? On the other hand why did SE think a limited market was a good idea? For being a former MMO player Yoshi signs off on a lot of obvious problems.

I get what your saying here. Even on Balmung some wards can be rather dead. The ward I'm in, there a large FC house next to mine and I see about a whole 3-5 people from that FC standing about. Me on the other hand, I live in my house with a good friend that I play with. It the only place the both of us warp to and sit in. We rarely go to our FC house. We prefer staying in our own house and using it. So yea, some people have a house and rarely ever touch it and maybe them people have it just to say, "I have a house." and whole status thing, however, there are the few of us that use it ever day of almost every hour.

Can't say why SE thought this was such a wonderful idea. This has to be the poorest idea on SE and Yoshi part. I've said this once before though and I'll say it again, I bet anything this has to do with console limits. Even after PS3 was dumped. I can't find any other reason behind it other then that, really old god damn servers they are using, or SE just being lazy af. And since they don't want to give us a real answer on what the problem is, anyone guess is as good as the next.

[Vahlnir]

Can't say why SE thought this was such a wonderful idea. This has to be the poorest idea on SE and Yoshi part. I've said this once before though and I'll say it again, I bet anything this has to do with console limits. Even after PS3 was dumped. I can't find any other reason behind it other then that, really old god damn servers they are using, or SE just being lazy af. And since they don't want to give us a real answer on what the problem is, anyone guess is as good as the next.

The PS4 actually runs XIV quite well, it could probably handle what would be required of it. What's holding XIV back now is the server hardware and such...and probably a lack of funding to do anything major with it or anything else. What we need is an upgrade from the ground up, and that would no doubt take a lot of time and money...something I'm not sure SE wants to do.

[Cylla]

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Lack of funding I find hard to believe. There may not be 10mil+ people paying for their subs but I'm pretty sure we've got a huge active player base. Add that on top of their Mog Station purchases made and there should be more then enough to at least apply a fix that is reasonable. Even just making a fix of one house per account would stop people from using their alts to buy up plots only to resell them for 10x more. It not a long term fix for high pop servers, but it shows that they are willing to TRY and fix their horrible system.

Also I'm not saying that the PS4 doesn't run well with XIV - but step back and ask this... what other MMO has housing and is on console?

[Aldotsk]

When people say Square Enix is lacking server or they are doing a hard job and being stressed.... I am wondering if they are just sympathizing to a point they only care about their gameplay basis instead of trying to help others to get the content they want. Majority of them don't want housing. But how is that affecting them comparing to those who want housing and want to do that for their enjoyment of the game?

They need to do something about it. I've been really waiting for this but it's literally a slim chance for 4.1 that I get a single plot.0

[Ceris]

Never post on the forums really, but my friend made this.