Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[Chigo_Sensei]

It comes down to money, so, add a third ward selection to the current page, So we'd have: Plots 1 to 30, Plots 31 to 60 (as we currently have with Wards 1 to 12) now add Plots 61 to 90.

Make the page with Plots 61 to 90 only purchasable with a new service from the Mog Station, set up like the retainer service so you select an available Plot from the list, depending on size you could charge players like $2 extra per month for a Cottage, $4 for a Medium and $8 (just example) for a Mansion, once a ward is full the next opens up. This will make it so each plot will get used, people that just want a plot will get one for however long they pay, if you stop paying you loose access to it and its added back to the pool to buy.

Please don't go on about how its not fair, some of us pay more than that for a bunch of retainers. Its called options, 10.000.000 players and only 190.080 house plots total in this game across 66 worlds. Why this isn't even an option, just imagine the revenue this could make. You don't have to use any services, its your choice.

Found the undercover SE employee!
Was this the plan from the beginning?

[Bluejay]

Reality Check:

A. There is 0% chance that Yoshi and the devs don't already know that demand for housing is many, many, MANY times higher than supply.

B. There is also no chance that they don't know how upset everyone is about housing, considering the player base has been complaining about it since housing was released.

C. Demand for housing could be eased by improving instanced apartments, but this has not been done (and could be done so relatively easily).

D. The number of people that are going to cancel their subs over housing is asymptotically 0. Housing is not going to affect their revenue stream.


The chances of us seeing any improvement to housing are not good. The outcrys will mostly blow over in a week or two and Square can go back to making outfits to sell on the Mog station for real money.

[SanyaTsukiko]

They haven't done anything in any of the previous patches that added more wards, what makes you think it'll be different, this time?

They did add 4 wards to the other 3 residential areas ages ago. There used to be only 8 wards. They could possibly be adding maybe 3 more wards, to all 4 at some point. Who knows? I hope they will, or implement somewhat instanced housing. And also, they need to make it so ppl can only have one personal house per account/server. That will stop the hoarding of houses for one person that wanna sell or keep for all alts. Keep it a bit more fair SE, pls.

[PharisHanasaki]

They did add 4 wards to the other 3 residential areas ages ago. There used to be only 8 wards. They could possibly be adding maybe 3 more wards, to all 4 at some point. Who knows? I hope they will, or implement somewhat instanced housing. And also, they need to make it so ppl can only have one personal house per account/server. That will stop the hoarding of houses for one person that wanna sell or keep for all alts. Keep it a bit more fair SE, pls.

And the Shirogane fiasco will repeat once again even with 16 wards. Because they insist on making plots available at 3am when servers come back from maintenance, instead of moving it to another time when they're 100% sure players are able to log in.
And because they won't limit alts from having a house. Unless they make it so that everyone can have a house, people will continue to resell plots.

Nothing will change.

[missybee]

No, read carefully: 'People are offering 1.2 bil for a large house on my server.'
I said people are offering gil, not asking for... either way my question is what to do about that since it's obviously fomenting house flipping.

I am actually curious about this as well.

I guess if both parties are happy with the deal they are getting, there is really no reason it would end up getting reported to a GM?

That being said, the whole system really needs help.

[PharisHanasaki]

I am actually curious about this as well.

I guess if both parties are happy with the deal they are getting, there is really no reason it would end up getting reported to a GM?

That being said, the whole system really needs help.

Yes, if both parties are okay with the deal I'm sure it won't get reported. But 1.2 billion gil for a large house? I would honestly report the seller and grab the plot when they take it from him hahaha.
It's an absurd amount of gil that no one should be made to pay, and it makes it even more unfair to other players who would do anything to get a house.

[Ayer2015]

I dont understand how all these people expected anything different then what happened....

[SanyaTsukiko]

And because they won't limit alts from having a house. Unless they make it so that everyone can have a house, people will continue to resell plots.

Nothing will change.

People should ofc be allowed to have alts, but you can have all classes, gathering, crafting and battle on one single character. In theory you only need one char, ergo only one house. Unless you have other people playing on your account ofc and they want their own personal house. But alts should be able to share the house with the main, as in make the alts tenants. You only need one house then. Atm you can't add your alts as friends, but it would be nice if they implement that you at least can add the chars on your account as tenants, then a lot of houses can be free for other ppl.

[Balipu]

And the Shirogane fiasco will repeat once again even with 16 wards. Because they insist on making plots available at 3am when servers come back from maintenance, instead of moving it to another time when they're 100% sure players are able to log in.

Which time exactly? With the timezones being what they are the right time will only be right for one continent. Admittedly there are problems with the housing system (I got my house in Shirogane but I understand the problem). But the release time can't be blamed. There is no correct answer for that.

[Moonlite]

But the release time can't be blamed. There is no correct answer for that.

Most people are upset it is when servers go live. The time sucks, but its the time servers go live that sucks more. If it was anytime after login had stabilized people would still be mad just less.