Housing Fans who have been upset: Cries Have Not Been Ignored Yet

[Bourne_Endeavor]

In what way would instanced housing make it easier for everyone who wants a house to get one?
If there are problems adding enough additional wards, then surely there would also be problems adding enough housing instances.

The issue now stems from the current wards always being active. For example, if no one is queuing into Alexander normal, all that content will not load. Instanced housing allows the devs to close off said instances to where they will only load whenever someone is inside. Since most people don't idle around their houses 24/7, it'd be considerably less strain.

[rosythorns4]

The issue now stems from the current wards always being active. For example, if no one is queuing into Alexander normal, all that content will not load. Instanced housing allows the devs to close off said instances to where they will only load whenever someone is inside. Since most people don't idle around their houses 24/7, it'd be considerably less strain.

I disagree, back when I owned a mansion out of mists with my fc I was there all the time, now granted, I may be a bit of an outlier myself, but I wouldn't say what you're proposing would be a complete fix

[PharisHanasaki]

The issue now stems from the current wards always being active. For example, if no one is queuing into Alexander normal, all that content will not load. Instanced housing allows the devs to close off said instances to where they will only load whenever someone is inside. Since most people don't idle around their houses 24/7, it'd be considerably less strain.

This is not how it works, and sadly, while people may not be 24/7 in a plot, my FC has multiple members. If one is on duty, there will still be someone who will be using the house. Or even afk there while taking a nap.
There's people who afk in the summoning bell outside of apartments too, which are still part of the instance.

It would take a considerable amount of time to 'reload' the instances everytime one single person wants to access it, so it the end you will most probably strain the server more by making so many requests to shut the instance off then on again.
And it would be disruptive at the very least.

[tymora]

A mansion district (All Large) should make people happy enough. It exists in RL.

[Crysten]

I wish people would stop treating Yoshi like some kindly uncle they know. He's a buisinessman, nothing else. He will do the things that he thinks will earn his company the most money possible, with the least amounts of fuss and expenses. He doesn't "love" the playerbase, he sees us as customers to be milked for money, and will try to see to it that enough of us are satisfied so that his company can continue to make a profit. Also, there's alot of people with equally stressful jobs all over the planet, should we also start giving them understanding and patience when they totaly messed up? Cause that's what SE did this time.

This.

I may have met him at Fanfest, shook his hand and got a photo but he's not my best mate. He may put in tremendous amounts of time and work, even cried, during this game's development, but he's not perfect.

I (and the rest of the community) should not afraid to think (or even tell him) that for everything awesome he's done and for how nice of a guy he is, he has made some bloody weird and stupid decisions.

Especially ones that have been impacting the playerbase, festering and getting steadily worse since a patch nearly 4 years ago.

[rosythorns4]

This.

I may have met him at Fanfest, shook his hand and got a photo but he's not my best mate. He may put in tremendous amounts of time and work, even cried, during this game's development, but he's not perfect.

I (and the rest of the community) should not afraid to think (or even tell him) that for everything awesome he's done and for how nice of a guy he is, he has made some bloody weird and stupid decisions.

Especially ones that have been impacting the playerbase, festering and getting steadily worse since a patch nearly 4 years ago.

Thanks, honestly, the whole announcement he put up for the housing in the first place was just a recognition of the problem itself, no plan to give details on how they intend to get it fixed, but just that it's being done

Nothing about that actually proves anything's going to be done, it's nothing new, tbh, it's just words, and at the end of the day, most likely just another hollow promise.

[Crysten]

Thanks, honestly, the whole announcement he put up for the housing in the first place was just a recognition of the problem itself, no plan to give details on how they intend to get it fixed, but just that it's being done

Nothing about that actually proves anything's going to be done, it's nothing new, tbh, it's just words, and at the end of the day, most likely just another hollow promise.

Pretty much.

He works in a corporate environment, and if SE is like any corporate environment (which it is), as much as Yoshi-P probably wants to fix it all, the higher ups will want it done with the least amount of money/effort spent as possible.

If you have a good idea and it costs money to implement, then bugger off. If you have a questionable idea which costs nothing to implement, hot dog, we have a wiener.

Unless he gets additional budgeting or siphons resources away from other things, the endgame will indeed be another hollow promise or another half-baked solution that will boggle the mind.

I, for one, am very interested to see how it plays out.

[LastFireAce]

I believe in you Yoshi.

[Derio]

The real question is about people who own multiple houses or even those who own an entire ward or half a ward.

[Keridwyn]

Worst case senario is we get more wards and the big change is they wait a little while after the servers to live to make plots buyable.

Honestly I don't think 4.2 is the patch that solves housing, does anyone really? I think most of us are just hoping 4.2 will be the patch where we don't fight server issues as well as each other for plots.