In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[Diaphoni]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.

[Alastair_Helyous]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.

I don't deny I want to believe, but at this point, I can't help it but be very skeptical. And the text he wrote made him feel irresponsible on his approach to the problem. I hope you are right, for the sake of us all.

[Diaphoni]

I don't deny I want to believe, but at this point, I can't help it but be very skeptical. And the text he wrote made him feel irresponsible on his approach to the problem. I hope you are right, for the sake of us all.

I hope I am too. I dislike the secrecy in the planned changes but I suspect that's more to do with them trying to decide 100% what to do. I am fully behind the 1 fc house &1 personal house limit per account but if they do that, they need to make it so we can account link them for real to our alts, meaning a realistic befriending system that doesn't require you be online to get the add request, letting us then mail things (the horror) to our alts. I don't see that happening

[DravlinKuraiyoru]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.

Looking back on previous posts I couldn't find any posts with even remotely near the same unification that we've had over the past couple of days. More subscribers, more disparity between the numbers involved, more reports of TOS breaking activity...

To put it simply, are we just significantly louder now?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I'm so happy to see this issue finally addressed! But it makes me wonder if there is anything planned to avoid alts (from people who already have a house) and re-sellers to come in and snatch them from people who are trying to get one...

...B) Require a 24 hour wait from the moment a plot is demolished to when it may be sold again.
...

Just having a delay between relinquishing a plot and having it go back up for sale could prevent selling plots and so discourage hoarding them.

A randomly determined delay from plot relinquishment until it is availble to purchase again would really put a damper on reselling houses without just selling FC's...

That's what I expected, a half arsed solution, more wards doesn't fix anything, with 4.2 (which is 3-4 months away) we'll see the exact same issue pop up again and probably another apology, which seems to be the only thing Yoshi-P is good at these days.

There's plenty of other better solutions, instanced housing, or a more realistic solution: upgradeable apartments, which would make a lot of folks happy. I don't even want a house that I'll loose after my sub ends, I don't have the money nor time to sub all year round, the demolition thing was made up to free up some houses, all it did is piss off people who like to take a break.

I'm sorry if I'm a bit rude in this post, but after years of this, I don't want to see another apology in 3-4 months with another hotfix that doesn't address the issue properly. As for folks happy about this, hope you get lucky next time, because if you're not, have fun waiting for another apology a few days after 4.2 comes out.

You can't just add more wards and call it a day! It's Fundamentally Broken and you're going to be doing this EVERY TIME

Auto Generate wards when they fill. Lotro did this a decade ago. This is the only answer. Don't let people buy more than one personal plot. Don't let FCs buy more than one plot. You're going to have to release an apology and add more wards like every time there's a patch if you don't do this.

But, it's not just a 'we're adding more wards' post...

He said they're looking into improvements.

They're withholding details to prevent speculation, maybe I'm wrong but wouldn't that actually create speculation?

Wrong type of speculation I assume....

The speculation intended would be like, trade speculation.
Where they use knowledge of what's changing to profit off the changes intentionally.

[Diaphoni]

Looking back on previous posts I couldn't find any posts with even remotely near the same unification that we've had over the past couple of days. More subscribers, more disparity between the numbers involved, more reports of TOS breaking activity...

To put it simply, are we just significantly louder now?

Perhaps we're finally fed up. This was a game wide, not just unique to some servers outrage, perhaps that's what it took.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Perhaps we're finally fed up. This was a game wide, not just unique to some servers outrage, perhaps that's what it took.

I have long said Stormblood will be the make or break for people's patience. Many acknowledged A Realm Reborn as a salvage project and gave the developers understandable leeway. While their expectations grew with Heavensward, people also accepted this was their first expansion. We're now reached a point where FFXIV has grown far beyond the doom and gloom days of 1.x. This game is Square's most profitable by a considerable amount and everyone now expects more. It's among the reasons I get sick of server limitation excuses.

Another contributing factor, in my opinion, is the sheer number of lobby errors. It's one thing to not be fast enough but another when the game simply doesn't allow you in. After all the talks of "upgrading," it wasn't a good look for SE.