Billion dollar company, still bad servers

[-Teria-]

get over it!

No thank you.

[Berethos]

There are games out there with less budget that have more housing options available.

With what additional restrictions? Instanced housing per plot? Significantly less freedom in customization in open zones?

Games that offer more housing plots tend to have other things they had to compromise on.

[Icehunter]

If your services aren't related to online games, something tells me your experience doesn't translate as well as you think it does.

1million concurrent requests per second target is large enough to say I could understand what they might be thinking.

[KremlinDusk]

Billion dollar company...with more than one development team and property. The FFXIV dev team is only ever going to get a certain portion of that budget.

Funny thing is though, that most of their budget comes from Final Fantasy XIV subscription. XIV pays for almost everything that Square Enix does now.

[-Teria-]

With what additional restrictions? Instanced housing per plot? Significantly less freedom in customization in open zones?

Games that offer more housing plots tend to have other things they had to compromise on.

If Lucas Arts circa 2003 can make a rudimentary MMO where hundreds of players can drop multiple houses per person (Some players having entire towns all to themselves made up of main houses and alt character houses), as well as several guild halls, all persistent non-instanced interiors with the exact same decoration system as FFXIV has today, and have this same thing repeated on multiple planets each server?...Not to mention starships with interiors they can also decorate?
SE should be able to do it in 2017 with everybody getting one single house with instanced interiors in instanced wards.

And don't knock instanced housing. If we had instanced housing, we wouldn't have this problem.

[NellMoshroca]

Instanced housing would fix a lot of things. But I think it's to late for that now. SE HAS TO fix the monster they created or it will start to cost them subs.

[Roda]

With what additional restrictions? Instanced housing per plot? Significantly less freedom in customization in open zones?

Games that offer more housing plots tend to have other things they had to compromise on.

Wildstar has small player made wards that give you ultimate freedom on furnature placement, scale, coloring, skybox, music, ground texture, and so much more. House size is only restricted by your imagination.

[BroodingFicus]

Funny thing is though, that most of their budget comes from Final Fantasy XIV subscription. XIV pays for almost everything that Square Enix does now.

This. I don't think many people realize that the success of FFXIV saved Squares bacon. Once it did, they started redirecting a lot of the money it made into other projects. That isn't to say I don't find this frustrating. If anything I find it more so because not only am I paying for a beautiful new ward I'm never going to get to move to, they're taking the money we pay and spending it on things that don't benefit ffxiv whatsoever.

[Talossar]

They should know that will happen and they didn't do any improvement so after all is GL players&fans who save our company.

[LunarEmerald]

It's a stupid idea to have them available upon log in. To make it more fair they should wait a bit to give people time to log in then make them available.