In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[DiaDeem]

Acknowledgement from the producer. Communication. That's what it is all about
Thanks for this post Mr. Yoshi P. San

[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.
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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.

[Highsearaider]

Housing should go account bound instead of per character.

[Axiom]

This still won’t resolve anything. Another 200 players may get housing and they’ll all be gone in minutes.

Just keep free company houses to the wards and make personal houses single instances so every player can buy one.

Also make apartments upgradable in size. Don’t separate them in size though, then all the large ones will be taken. Let players upgrade so everyone with any size apartment can still get a large one in time.

[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.

[Aerilon]

Thanks for the response. I hope that you and the development team sincerely consider a more lasting solution that dynamically adds houses when the need is there rather than a band-aide solution of just adding a few more wards to each housing area. Please see my full proposal here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mes-to-housing

The game is ever growing (a great problem to have) and the community loves and enjoys the social aspects of the game such as housing, a feature that should be made available to as many players as possible while still feeling like an accomplishment in your journey through Eorzea.

[Spiroglyph]

While I'm disappointed the solution will probably revolve around the addition of yet more wards, I'm very happy the issue is being addressed and that they're letting us know they're working on it.

Fully agree with Axiom (post #274), though. If the idea behind wards was to form "neighborhoods", then leaving the wards for FCs and implementing instanced personal housing would work best, I think, since they naturally have more players gravitating toward them (not counting single player FCs, of course). Not sure about apartments, but if instanced housing was ever implemented it being upgradable would be awesome.

[Lone_Monkey]

just allow the all alts to share the one house.

This! So many times this!!

[Vivi239]

I have to agree with what others are saying about people only being able to only have one personal house per account. Not everyone is a multi gililionare in this game =/

[ChameleonMS]

The time delay in housing release will only cause us to relive Christmas Day 2015. The first time the auto-demolish timer happened. Hundreds of players, gather around the wards / city aetheryte doing nothing but checking the wards continuously for when it becomes available. The only improvement this provides is that at least people will be logged in vs stuck in login queue.