Petition for more wards / instanced housing

[Jonno3453]

I logged in this morning, just barely! And I ran as hard as I could to a plot in shirogane because a friend of mine told me it was still up, I had logged out in Lavender beds because I was going to be buying a friends large FC house since they were relocating but because of the severe lag on SE side for not updating it looked to me as though they hadn’t moved so I tried for the shirogane plot, which turned out to be the plot they had bought! This meant I not only lost out on the shirogane plot but I lost the plot they had told me about all because se didn’t get there act together, I have never felt so angry and upset by a game, I have spent a long time trying to raise enough money to get a large plot, and then I lost out completely, I even sold my medium just so I had enough money to even have a chance at getting a large, and like people say fc rooms and apartments are no substitute for owning your own house you have next to no ability to give it any flare and no ability to do anything

[RhapsodyElsmeth]

Signed

I happened to snag a small plot in lavender beds a few months ago, but I agree we need a lot more wards. How can free to play or buy to play mmos have better housing management? Not only do we purchase each expansion, but you also get at least $13 per player per month. Where's that money going? Can't you afford state of the art servers to keep up with your player population? One day I want a medium plot. I would like to be able to transfer from small to large sometime in the future.

[Jonno3453]

And before I forget signed! This needs fixing!

[DravlinKuraiyoru]

My understanding is there are infrastructure problems limiting the wards. And ones that simply purchasing new servers won't fix. The last I heard it was an issue of literally where they would put the servers in question should they get them. Admittedly, that was a while ago, but I doubt anything's changed since then. And even if it has, you still have to get the CIO to sign off on dropping several hundred thousand dollars on equipment. Good luck doing that when all they're looking at is their bottom line.

If that's the explanation for deciding which subscribers get access to what content and which ones don't, then I'll happily remain unsubscribed when my time runs out. This isn't some temporary lockout because of excitement and overload, it's permanently broken and the response from SE is "So?"

[Clint_Beastwood]

O 9. Because Square Enix ignores its player base.

[Noletters]

Signed.

The Dev's archaic view of housing may have worked back when not everyone had the money to get a house, but that was 2 expansions ago. A lot of people like myself, who weren't lucky to get a house back then have been hoarding our gil, meaning there are more people with money that are able to buy homes now and they have failed to meet that increase. Heck the amount of houses available doesn't even meet half the population on a server as is. Even then, most homes are being bought up by alts and house flippers. If anything PLEASE limit the amount of homes one account can purchase.

Edit: Holy shit, I thought I made a comment on the forums before? But I guess. Congrats Square, you pissed me off enough that I finally made my first comment.

[Kytrin]

If that's the explanation for deciding which subscribers get access to what content and which ones don't, then I'll happily remain unsubscribed when my time runs out. This isn't some temporary lockout because of excitement and overload, it's permanently broken and the response from SE is "So?"

To be fair... it's not like Square decides who gets a house and who doesn't. The housing is currently a free-for-all, so yeah they had no say in who got a house and who didn't. I agree it needs fixing though. It's far too limited and far too open to price scalping and other problems. Hence why I completely support the instanced housing option. Hell, they could even make instanced housing for personal housing only and leave the wards for the FCs and I'd be happy. Just... something. Don't make it easy, but don't make it impossible either.

[Serarar]

Signed.

Tried to log in full of enthusiasm, everything prepared only to be kicked off the game because of an error and by the time I was able to log in after the 1400+ player queue literally all the plots were gone.

[aeoncs]

Not that SE will actually care, seeing that 10+ year old MMORPGs have a better and fairer housing system than this garbage and they still haven't done anything to improve the situation, I might as well.

/signed

[Killjoy]

If you all post on Twitter about FFXIV housing, let's use hashtag #HousingGate. Maybe getting gaming news outlets talking about the problem will prompt someone to hit Yoshi-P up with a question that gets us an answer.
Mock this idea if you want, but if you were in on the 1.0 Beta and watched the responses to feedback before the game went live, you'd probably understand why it's important to find a way to actually get a response from these guys...

One might even be able to go as far as to say that they need to be saved... from themselves. For those who have houses, don't think this doesn't impact you when the scales begin to shift and your subs alone can't carry the game. The real question is: by the time they do fix housing, will it already be too late to save the game you love?