Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI discussion

[Raim]

Of course, do you realize there are accounts with 3-16 houses?

"Selling account with 16 houses, an achievement no longer obtainable ingame"

They cannot add a (right) rule and don't change things.

Im not defending them, but typically you don't implement rules/laws retroactively. At the time they were breaking no rules. It would be odd to punish them for doing something they had every right to do back then. If so you can imagine a lot of fighting on the forums from housing owners.

[Estelle9lives]

Hmm...I haven't ran too many dungeons on SMN...mostly run trials and Savage on the job.

I don't know about the whole thing with PLD, because we have a situation like this where PLD is constantly going through buffs and nerfs with almost every other patch. Rather than nerf the job, just buff the DRK to get them up to par.

That's likely why, this SMN nerf is mostly directed at dungeons since there aren't many AOE phases on Trials/Savage.

I think the thing with PLD is that even after they nerfed Holy Spirit at the last patch, it's still too strong on the DPS side of things. Just bringing DRK up wouldn't really solve this problem.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Im not defending them, but typically you don't implement rules/laws retroactively. At the time they were breaking no rules. It would be odd to punish them for doing something they had every right to do back then. If so you can imagine a lot of fighting on the forums from housing owners.

SE just has to bite the bullet on it. On mateus 1 person owns an entire ward of houses.

I hope they do retroactively enforce it. It doesn't seem fair to the owner(s) yes, but this is a limit that should've been there since day 1.

[alimdia]

SMN AOE is absolutely insane atm, I ran Skalla with a friend the other day and they were spiking 18k DPS on trash, at i310 lol

That insanely high number is actually a bug with the plugin, the person in charge is aware of the bug but doesn't know how to fix it. The spike is caused by DoT simulation which has always been problematic.

The bug is random so you'll often see normal numbers.

[Johaandr]

I really hope he's not in Sigma scape it would be such a waste of a cool character

His nothing more than a folkelore jeez stop.

[Alleo]

I am glad to see such housing changes. Finally we have those 1 FC 1 private rule and they make it nearly impossible to sell houses thanks to the timer. A bit bad for those that see the house being free and have to wait and hope that they are online when its sold but at least this might stop sellers.

Also I really hope that they will take older houses away. Feel sorry for those that just have them because they enjoy housing but I cant just see how they would use the new system without making it something that will get older ones too. I mean how would the system now that someone bought it before 4.2? Also this would explain the extra website for housing. Since they could explain it there.

The only part that I disliked was the FC only selling for a bit of a time. I can understand the reason for it but I just find it bad for all of those that are hopeing for a personal house for a long time and now have to hope that some are still there..this also means that there is a high chance that you wont get a middle or big personal house.

Anyway still happy that sellers are probably done for. Also interesting: Yoshida seems to be quite disappointed that people still sold houses after they told them not to do that so it seems that the timer is thanks to that. Now we finally have the confirmation that he dislikes any selling and not only just those for high profit. Just sad that he never truly seemed to have given the GMs that information.

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Rest of the patch is not that interesting. Omega seems to be fanservice only again which is nice for those that enjoyed the FF but I dont really care that much. Hopefully the next completely new raid will be something completely new and not just such a huge fanservice.

Dungeons and trial are fine but are nothing that interesting.

Glamour dresser is still not that great imo and their hint that we have the dresser and the chest (which makes it more than 200) is not that great either..I mean its not like that much goes into the chest.

The fashion mini game is alright. Just sad that its again restricted and can only be done once a week. Also we seemingly need the glamour with us which just makes it something that will decrease my inventory slots again..Its nice but nothing really ground breaking or long time for me. Maybe try it out once or twice but I am not sure if that content will be done much.

Not much else in the liveletter that kept my attention.

I really really hope that the liveletter about Eureka is more interesting.

[RiyahArp]

Idk. I think they really did awesome with character and encounter design. The battles look the best yet. But the main content is same old, same old, and they waste a lot of time on useless fluff like Bard perform, subs, and that fashion thing. A lot of time is spent fixing things it looks like; balancing, fixing inventory, fixing glamour, and fixing housing. PvP is going to be a mixed bag, since it really relies on participation; the player tournament thing can be awesome but could be as much a waste as light party queue was.

At least though we don't have too long to wait.

[hqdm]

Anyway still happy that sellers are probably done for. Also interesting: Yoshida seems to be quite disappointed that people still sold houses after they told them not to do that so it seems that the timer is thanks to that. Now we finally have the confirmation that he dislikes any selling and not only just those for high profit. Just sad that he never truly seemed to have given the GMs that information.

Yeah, the GM inaction / hands being tied thing is kinda weird.
The GMs I've interacted with have all been extremely helpful, but not being able to take action (evenly) on house flippers or touch those twats using PF to advertise RMT services via discord...
Like SE's hands-on policy effectively seems to end with our 1OO% handwork chinese pals.


I own several houses myself, but my interest was mostly in gardening. To that end, I wouldn't be as annoyed about it if they'd actually implemented more gardening functions along the way. Give you the option to raze the house and just have a field of gardens. The only way to get more gardens was to buy more houses, which obv hasn't gone over well with latecomers.

As for action re: current landbarons, altaholics, etc. it seems lose-lose for them to clarify that situation for the NA market. On 1 hand, you screw over ppl who've broken no rules, and on the other you free up houses from flippers, farmers, hoarders etc and please more players overall by redistributing the housing.

If they announce the opposite - that existing owners will be able to grandfather their houses in - which could happen as well given the wording is vague in that it only mentions purchases, then you've got another pissed off horde to contend with.

It really depends on how they implement the restrictions.
If the restrictions are only on purchase, it will be bypassable.
eg. cannot purchase fc housing on alt while in fc on main
- get your main temporarily kicked, buy house, rejoin fc
- give someone else lead and let them buy the house

If the restrictions are on existing in 2 fcs with housing, then it seems quite strict...
Like being limited to one fc/acct unless the 2nd doesn't have housing?
Then what happens in the situation, your main in 1 fc, your alt in another houseless fc that manages to scrap together enough gil to buy a house? Your alt removed from that fc? They can't buy it at all?

If that were the case, I would also like to see alts made possible as tenants to your main. Punishing your gameplay experience for having (and paying for) multiple characters makes little sense, although obviously the previous situation was untenable.

There's lots of speculation to be made either way, but I don't think they will solidify their official position until that special site is released, regardless of what the vocal playerbase seems to think is right. Particularly if they're going to grandfather it in - the further they can delay that shitstorm the better.

On another note, weekly lockout for the minigame is dumb.
Nothing screams artificial timegate meant to draw out your subscription like weekly lockouts.
Super looking forwards to 999 stacks & submarines though.

[Ayer2015]

I'm feeling very meh at the moment. Since 4.0 we got Omega, Rabanastre, Ultimate, and now Sigmascape in the way of battle content over the past 7 months. Hopefully Eureka is worth the wait... cause I'm getting bored of this content cycle

Oh, and 2 primals

[Tridus]

So I just won't be able to buy a house until some point in the future. Yay. Which plots are FC only?

Hopefully we're going to keep seeing more housing added until the shortage is resolved, because this doesn't really seem like it does it.