Auto-demolish

[KaivaC]

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Wasn't this statement made back when the game had, like, 1 million accounts, tops, with less than half of that logging in at peak? Maybe they heavily underestimated the amount of players that would be playing?

[Krokov]

Actually, I was hoping they'd reinstate the demolish timer on NA housing soon. It's not fair to have houses sit unused while so many go without. I'm not even one of the ones going without, I have an fc house and a personal house. There is just not enough housing to go around right now. Hopefully this situation will at least be eased some with the new housing addition in the works but right now, the timer is needed.

I might be wrong course but I think Auto demolition will be reinstated when 4.2 drops and the new housing plots are added.

[Vstarstruck]

I might be wrong course but I think Auto demolition will be reinstated when 4.2 drops and the new housing plots are added.

PR has no power still, so it is fitting for it be on hold still

[Mirch]

autodemolition is good

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Um.. you are simply word twisting... why are you defending someone going back on their word?

Those are two different arguments. Criticising Yoshida for going back on his word is not the same as conflating auto-demolition and taking a break. Put simply, you can still take a break, you'll just lose your house if it extends beyond 45 days.

Wasn't this statement made back when the game had, like, 1 million accounts, tops, with less than half of that logging in at peak? Maybe they heavily underestimated the amount of players that would be playing?

I suspect that may be the issue. Doing a little digging, Yoshida had that interview only three months after ARR released—before personal plots were even a thing. He either severely underestimated the turn around FFXIV would have, that housing would be this popular or SE overruled him. Could be a little of everything, honestly. It's a bit naive to think they wouldn't need a system like this with such a limited resource. Granted, not going instanced housing from the get go proved to be their biggest mistake.

Instance plot seems weird to me. Simply because, what about the garden? If you want the whole plot to be instance then you want the garden to be avaible right? Then what will be displayed? A random garden to see? If instance it's not only yours so...
Or have house without garden be instanced like it is for appartment. If you want instance i can only see that. And it could be done for "waiting player" if i may say, the one without a plot. For free maybe, or a small fee, like again the appartment.
But demolition might still be a thing even with that, for ressources sake.

I imagine instanced housing would include the garden. You would either zone outside your house similar to how apartments work or there would be an ellipses line at the gate like when you enter a new city or zone. If they had the funding, they could do something comparable to what the Sims 4 does with neighbours. Allow players to choose say, five friends where each of their houses will load. This would be entirely separate from everyone else's unless they visited.

As for resources, data storage is incredibly cheap nowadays. The issue isn't space since inactive players simply wouldn't have their houses ever loading. It's that each housing ward always remains on idle. Nobody can be around yet all 48 wards still load every individual house, which inevitably strains their system. Instanced housing would be no different than alts, in the sense it doesn't exist unless you're signed in. That's why virtually every other MMO moved towards this direction.

[Krokov]

PR has no power still, so it is fitting for it be on hold still

Indeed friend

[LyraKuroneko]

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The problem isn't data storage it's ressources. DD are cheap, servers are not.

[LastFireAce]

We very limited, I been waiting for them to turn it back on the way no more "I haven't build my house yet"

[Raim]

Instanced housing will never be the answer. Instanced housing would just be bigger apartments, and people don't want that. They want the community aspect of a neighborhood.

[BillyKaplan]

Instanced housing will never be the answer. Instanced housing would just be bigger apartments, and people don't want that. They want the community aspect of a neighborhood.

Most people just want to decorate their house and be able to use a garden. The only time I've seen houses benefit from being in the wards is FC houses, not personal ones, which is a very easy distinction to make if they do go down that path.