In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Problem: Multiple houses per account.
Solution: Limit number of houses availiable for purchase per account to 2 or 3, increase price for each house bought. (first small house is usual 3,5; 2nd small house 7, 3rd house 14). This way rich players and players with multiple characters still can own more houses but are restricted from having too many.

That wouldn't make any difference when there is people offering 999mill or 1.1 bill for a mansion. Like I said before 1 personal 1 FC per account. If they can't do that then every house after that should get a daily large rent fee.

[Kalitzo]

Please make it one personal house and on FC house per account that is shared among your alts.

[Jas710]

Hey folks, just because Yoshi issued a statement doesn't mean everything is all of a sudden okay. Save your thank-you's until after we see satisfactory results.

[skullfishy]

Great news, Yoshi-P! Just please don't implement instanced housing. It takes away from the social aspect

[AlthusRitoto]

How did they get a Shirogane exterior in the Mists? Is it a new recipe like the Chocobo house? Or maybe... it's photoshopped! Kidding

Yes. You can get it at Market Board or make it through workshop.

[HyoMinPark]

Thank you for hearing us out, Yoshi. I sincerely hope 4.2 brings about enough plots for more people to obtain houses.

Added a better response to the tl;dr thread that I created about this situation yesterday:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...15#post4435915

[AlthusRitoto]

Great news, Yoshi-P! Just please don't implement instanced housing. It takes away from the social aspect

Other MMORPG instance housings have friends to visit fyi. Besides, no one really visits entire ward.

[WanderingStar]

Although this would be the most ideal, it takes up a lot of server space and going from how they have talked about server space in the past they are very tight on it. I don't think they have the resources and budget to keep such an expandable feature which i can understand.

You don't get to celebrate millions of subs worldwide and then say you don't have the budget. While the aforementioned idea is a little unrealistic, the prior concerns of money/resources are no longer excuses.

[Kaonis]

So basically wait 4 months for a band-aide to a problem that has been complained about for 3 years?

Sorry, but words at this point are meaningless, and people shouldn't be so fast to just say things are ok now. Housing has been an issue since implementation with no real fixes to it, just small band-aides to try and make the issues less bad.

Unless they do instanced housing or do something along the lines of doubling/tripling the amount of wards to accommodate everyone, then I will just assume these are more hollow words on the topic.

[Luxyn]

The problem there is if you put money into one plots lotto and another plot becomes available. You can\\'t also put money into that. Which then means if you don\\'t win the first one you\\'ve ultimately lost on both or all of them if there\\'s several available. It really doesn\\'t help any one.

As for 10. Kicking everyone out of the wards so they all be true same start is also never going to work. It\\'s not going to be fair because everyone has different load times. I run the game on my laptop with super fast ssd so I nearly always load into zones that much faster than many of my friends.

Even doing canals. One of my party can teleport I\\'ll accept that port load in get on my mount and already be flying towards the flagged coordinates before anyone else has even zoned in. That would give me a massive advantage in housing. In truth it\\'s probably why I snagged my large house so easily. Even when I was 900 in the queue.

Then you have ps4 players who also typically have slightly longer load times. So kicking everyone out would actually make things worse for a lot of players and put them at even more of a disadvantage.

In regards to point number 9, yes - but EVERYONE has that same problem. It's fair and it prevents the players with more gil to try get multiple houses as that favours the rich. Like I said, it'd be all about luck. Sure that might not be preferable to your guaranteed chance but that's one way of making getting housing lucky. The point being no one has an advantage on anyone else, no matter what. You get lucky or you don't.

And for point number 10, yeah it will work, because it helps things be more fair still. It's an improvement, isn't it? Just because something is an improvement and not an all encompassing fix doesn't mean it doesn't work - it'd work as intended. It'd help make things a BIT more fair - I know it can't do it completely. It helps at least remove the problem of the launcher errors, queues, slow download times, connection errors, etc - there will always be people with faster load times, you can't handle that in any way at all, so that's moot. And just because you have a faster connection than me doesn't mean you won't mess up your route or lose your house to someone with an even faster connection than you while I go for a less contended plot with my worse connection. (The skill/competition/luck of the race!) It's more down to luck there too - all it's about is leveling the playing field some, not completely.