What Happens To Houses We Have on Same World? Do We Get Our Money Back?

[Claviusnex]

Can only have 8 characters per World, but I do get your point.

Yes but under the old rules each character could own one personal and one FC house making for a total of 16.

[Kuponutz]

As was stated, prior to the free xfer there were hundreds of empty houses on low pop servers. If people wanted them badly enough they could have xferred sooner. They didn't, chose to wait until they were essentially paid to do it, and are now whining that people who have been on their new server since launch have more than one house and should have their property confiscated because "wahh someone xferred faster and got the last one."

We've been on our server since launch, hubby with both of his characters. I'm sorry you picked a high pop server in 2013, but you don't get to take away what we worked hard for and have spent years working on. I highly doubt most of you have even been playing since 2.0. (We've been around since 1.0 but were on Balmung for that).

[Elamys]

I mean, I've had this conversation multiple times with people saying that the plots were empty before, that's fine or whatever, but still not really an excuse...you shouldn't take everything just because you can, in my opinion. And while you may use your houses, there are a lot of hoarders that do not even touch all of theirs. Those people on Mateus that own a whole ward have barely touched the majority of their houses (and they bought more after the server became active, and bought most right when transfers were announced).

Regardless, it seems to be a moot point. Several Japanese speakers on Reddit have confirmed that this will not affect existing houses.

[Claviusnex]

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If that was directed at me I didn't say anything that could be taken as me saying people's houses should be taken away. In fact if you have followed my posts over these past months you would have seen I am a proponent for grandfathering multiple house owners. All I was clarifying in my last update is Tussin was correct on the ability to own 16 houses.

[AriesMouse]

Those people on Mateus that own a whole ward have barely touched the majority of their houses

As someone that actually plays on Mateus, I can confirm that this is a false statement. That ward is my "I'm waiting for my instance to pop" romping ground(and frequent rp gathering place), I love it, and I can tell you, I'm finding changes in those houses all the time, and currently all but three are open to the public to use for events, rp, etc (as stated and encouraged by the home owners). The three still locked are under construction.

[Besame]

SE advertised housing is part of the game experience. Housing should be available to EVERY player. Two years ago, if I knew housing was so sparse, I would never have opted to switch MMOs to play this and went back to WoW or some other I played in the past. I was fortunate last year to be able to swap my small house for a medium before the server merge. There were 2x mediums ONLY available and I nabbed one. Bad housing system is just that...BAD. FIX.

[Elamys]

As someone that actually plays on Mateus, I can confirm that this is a false statement. That ward is my "I'm waiting for my instance to pop" romping ground(and frequent rp gathering place), I love it, and I can tell you, I'm finding changes in those houses all the time, and currently all but three are open to the public to use for events, rp, etc (as stated and encouraged by the home owners). The three still locked are under construction.

It's really not. I have an alt over there I play fairly frequently and while it's been a bit improved, it's just the same stuff over and over with only bare decorations put in. And even if they were completely, beautifully decorated, it would still be the height of greed.

[Leloa]

Why is this still a topic? all old house oweners get to keep their one or 10 houses where new players who want a house have to wait till FC's snatch first and then get left overs. SE sure knows how to make it "fair and square" as Yoshida said for everyone.

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Why is this still a topic? all old house oweners get to keep their one or 10 houses where new players who want a house have to wait till FC's snatch first and then get left overs. SE sure knows how to make it "fair and square" as Yoshida said for everyone.

Exactly. I think they need to learn what fair and square really is. What they are doing is definitely not it

[AriesMouse]

with only bare decorations put in.

Are you sure we're talking about the same thing? It's kind of hard to call any of those houses and their decorations "bare". I mean, it's pretty obvious that each open house has every housing item slot filled, the decorations thought out, dyed, etc. They put a lot of work in. Perhaps we should just agree to disagree though, opinions and all that.

I will say though, if you're going to say things like that though, it should be aimed at ALL home owners, means any person that has set up an RP space, and not updated it/touched it in a while, should be just as shamed as the ward 12 two. Some might think them owning many houses is greed, but they didn't break any rules, and the majority of those houses were obtained when the server was dead, and there were dozens of empty houses in all the wards. It only because a problem when people got a literal free ride to the server, and then cried when there were no houses for them.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. Hate the poor system SE has put into place, and rather than ragging on people that have just played the game as it was designed, complain about the company that designed it that way, and demand that they design it better. Housing shouldn't be a finite resource, but they insist on making it one. That is the problem that should be focused on, not some petty war between the haves and the have nots.

And I say all this as someone that does not have a personal house in the game.