Losing faith in this MMO

[Inuk9]

I see spoiled people

[Kallera]

I see spoiled people

There is nothing spoiled about this, housing provides both services and status to the FC and person that owns them, FCs in particular. Housing is one of the few, if not the only, big ticket purchases one can make in this game that won't go obsolete in 3-6 months.

[Inuk9]

Fher is nothing spoiled about thia, housing provides both services and status to the FC and person that owns them, FCs in particular. Housing is one of the few, if not the only, big ticket purchases one can make in this game that won't go obsolete in 3-6 months.

I was not talking about you, but if you took the bullet...

[Evumeimei]

Tbh, my FC was lucky enough to upgrade from a small in Lavender Beds to a Medium in Shirogane. However, we did spend a ton of time saving up for a mansion and had planned as well as we could for patch day. That morning, I got a message from one of my friends about how the PC launcher wasn't working for lots of people. It wasn't working for me or another friend. My one friend on PS4 was able to dl the patch, but still had to sit in a queue. When he finally got on everything was already almost gone in Shirogane. The last Medium left was in the least desirable location, but he still managed to get it. While, overall, I'm just happy we managed to get something... It was severely frustrating that after all the hard work we put in, the thing that affected our chances the most was completely out of our hands.

And now some of our FC members can't even access their personal rooms, and we have no idea why. No one can enter them.

[Theodric]

It has absolutely nothing to do with being 'spoiled' or 'entitled'. Housing is an increasingly prominent part of the game's development and Shirogane was advertised as a major feature of the expansion. So, too, was Eureka and that has been delayed...but that's a matter for another thread.

It is a major flaw that housing is not accessible to all but a minority of players. It is causing a lot of frustration and bitterness - and understandably so. That there is nothing but radio silence on the part of the developers says it all, really.

[Cubester]

I just want instanced housing. It would solve ALL of this if they actually gave housing proper servers as I doubt MOST people actually give a shit about the garden.

Depends on what you mean by the garden. I mean, the most important part for me is a garden where I can cross breed plants. Other than that, I don't really care about having a garden I can decorate, no.

[Riardon]

I understand that some people don't like housing. Some others can't afford it so they don't care. And some others don't care because housing doesn't offer you any utility or something that has a value in gameplay. However SE made it clear that housing is a big and important aspect of the game. They are pouring resources into housing development with every single patch. It takes some part of the trailers as well. New items and features for housing appear in every patch and SE always hyped housing and advertised it as a big feature. So housing is important. Vanity yes but still a cool feature most people want. The vanishing of 720 houses in very few minutes made it clear. 720 houses for a game which has thousands of active players per server is nothing. It was a drop in the pool. SE needs to get their dodos together and start fixing the issue right now. We waited months for this and was big advertised. It even made the headlines today on some major gaming websites. And Jesus vanity or not housing on decade old games was much much better constructed than this farse. We are closing in 2018 and SE can't deliver what others did decades ago.

[Axxion]

from anothe r forum post
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...en-Ignored-Yet

[MistakeNot]

Dalmascus - We were expecting the launcher not to crash out on us. We were expecting the lobby server not to dump us.

But when everybody (or nearly so) tries to log in all at once you should expect all that to happen. The servers are dimensioned for normal loads plus some margin - and normally there is no login problems at all.
When the load is many, many times higher than normal - then problems are to be expected.

This isn't going to change - SE isn't going to double or triple their server capacity just to handle 20 minutes of crowding once every 6 months or so, when the extra capacity is not needed the rest of the time.

Or in other words: All the players trying to get a house all at once were what prevented most of them from being able to even log in.

[Theodric]

That isn't really a valid excuse. They know that there's going to be a major surge in activity with each new patch. That has been proven time and time again. At least when Blizzard encountered such issues with World of Warcraft and Overwatch they took the time and resources needed to upgrade their servers - and now each time a patch or expansion goes live it's all very smooth. Treating players with respect and dignity goes a long way and given how quick Square Enix are to find new ways to charge players money there really is no reason as to why their servers cannot be upgraded to handle both the demand for player housing and the strain for players logging on during fresh content launches.